Maha Shivaratri, revered as the night of divine revelry, is a highly anticipated festival among Hindus worldwide. It carries profound cultural, religious, and spiritual importance. Devotees fervently pray and meditate upon Bhagawan Sadashiva’s name, reaffirming their faith and yearning for divine blessings.
The night of Maha Shivaratri and celebrations for 2024 came on March 8th.
Team Dharmansh identified with the help of local Karyakartas in Jharkhand that there are Adivasi villages where Shiva temples are largely ignored and villagers don’t even have knowledge or resources at their disposal to take care of Shivalingams or the temples around them.
Dharmansh team, in line with our core values of helping Hindu communities celebrate important Hindu festivals with enthusiasm that brings Hindus together, assisted the local Adivasi villagers in Jharkhand in organizing Maha Shivaratri celebrations at their local temple.
Dharmansh assistance showed results right away where distressed villagers who had almost forgotten how to celebrate Maha Shivaratri began to prepare for the festivities weeks before the actual date of celebration!
Many people performed an all night Jagaran on the night of Maha Shivaratri, many performed Rudrabhishekam and musical programs were organized where people spent time singing glories of Bhagavan Mahadeva all night.
At one of the temples in Jharkhand, there is a dilapidated Shiva temple with thousands of-year-old Pauranik Shiva Lingams lying in the open without protection under a tree. However, even in those conditions, the villagers’ devotion and commitment to Dharma increased multifold when Dharmansh agreed to assist them with little financial help for the festivities.
The result of the assistance was that several hundreds of people came together and celebrated Maha Shivaratri performing Jagaran all-night at a place where not even 20 people used to come to pray in in pervious year’s Maha Shivaratri.
All the surrounding villages and the Hindus living in those villages are now proud to have Bhagavan Mahadev’s thousands of years old Lingam amongst them. They are now committed to protecting and serving that dilapidated place as their heritage. This is a great victory for Hindu Dharma with just a little help from Dharmansh supporters. We are grateful for all our donors, without whom this would not have been possible.