The Holi festival was celebrated with traditional gaiety and devotion today, March 14th, at Shri Mahakaleshwar Temple in Ujjain. Celebrations began with the offering of herbal gulaal to Lord Mahakal during the Bhasma Aarti held early in the morning. Additionally, a garland of makhana was presented to Baba Mahakal.
In light of last year's fire incident, the temple management implemented a security measure this time by not allowing devotees to bring gulaal with them. However, this did not diminish the faith of the devotees, as a large number of worshippers were seen at the temple.
This time herbal gulaal was applied to Baba Mahakal
Like every year, this time also the devotees in Mahakal temple expressed their desire to play Holi with Lord. But after the incident of arson last year, security was tightened. This time herbal gulaal was specially offered to Lord Mahakal in the Bhasma Aarti. The devotees got the benefit of darshan and aarti only.
Bhasma Aarti: Baba's devotees arrived in large numbers
Holi, the festival of colours of Falgun, is being celebrated with great joy. In many districts of MP, people will be seen enjoying the Holi of colours till 2 pm, while after 2 pm till late evening, people will wish each other on the festival by applying abir-gulal.
The enthusiasm of Holi is visible everywhere. Today, on the day of Dhulendi, colours were first showered in the city of Baba Mahakal. Special Bhasma Aarti was performed at four in the morning. In which gulal was offered to Lord Mahakal.
The priests and the purohits offered gulal to Baba Mahakal with special chanting. With this, the official start of the Holi festival was made.
Women performed the puja
Before this, the tradition was also followed on Holika Dahan in Baba Mahakal's temple. The women of the priest's family performed a special puja of Baba Mahakal. A huge rangoli of cow dung cakes was decorated in the Omkareshwar temple premises. After this, Holika Dahan was performed with rituals.
This is how the tradition of colours was followed on Dhulendi this time in Ujjain's Jyotirling Mahakal temple. The priests could only offer herbal gulaal and herbal colours made of saffron as a symbol to Lord Mahakal. Actually this decision was taken in the temple management committee meeting chaired by Ujjain collector and temple administrator Neeraj Kumar Singh.
The temple management committee had already banned the excessive use of colours in the name of Rangotsav. Along with this, the colours of Holi were not showered in the temple premises including Nandi Hall, Ganesh and Kartikeya Mandapam this time.
Prakash Kumar Pandey
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