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Mahashivratri 2020: Date, Fasting, Significance, How to Worship and Much more
Mahashivratri: The festival of Maha Shivratri  is started with great enthusiasm among the devotees to worship the Lord Shiva. Devotees are set to offer the crucial things including Flower/Belpatra/Dhatura/ Bhang and others to the Shiv Linga from early morning. 

Maha Shivratri , commonly known as the 'Great Night of Lord Shiva' is the occasion to worship Lord Shiva or Lord Shankar. Mahashivratri is the auspicious day on which devotees use to worship Lord Shiva the Adi Guru or the First Guru. Maha Shivratri. On the day of Mahashivratri, devotees use to worship Lord Shiva by offering him the fruits, flower and Belpatra with the holy water to the Shiv Linga. 

 For the devotees, the Mahashivratri or the 'Great Night of Lord Shiva' is one of the most significant festivals for Hindus across the world....This year..Shivratri is to be celebrated on 18 February 2023 (Saturday). 

Mahashivratri 2023 is the crucial day for which devotees use to worship Lord Shiva the Adi Guru or the First Guru. The Vedic Scriptures and Shiv Purana use to say that devotees worship Lord Shiva with the Belpatra on the 14th day of the waning moon in the month of Maagha or Phalguna which provide more pleasure to the Lord Shiva. 

On the day of Maha Shivratri....devotees chants Har Har Mahadev and Om Namah Shivay and the every particles of the environment use to enchant the very slogan of the Lord Shiva....Devotees started the worshipping the Lord Shiva on the occasion of Maha Shivratri 2022 after bathing in very morning and are queued in the temples to offer the flowers, fruits with water (Jal which is known as Jalabhishek) to the Linga of Lord Shiva.

Generally it falls in the February/March according to the English Calendar.

Its time to celebrate the Maha Shivratri 2021 when the devotees take a bath in early on the day of Maha Shivratri and visit the nearest temples to offer the Jal and fruits to the Linga of Lord Shiva.

Mahashivratri : Date
As we know ratri…which means the night..is understood as one of the darkest night of the year to worship Lord Shiva. Mahashivratri 2023 is all set to observe on 18 February 2023 . People use to celebrate Mahashivratri to worship the Lord Shiva...the lord of Destruction or Illusions...

Mahashivratri : How to Worshipp
In a bid to worship Lord Shiva for Mahashivratri 2023, people use to fast and consume only fruits and milk related products. Devotees avoid taking any kind of grains on the occassion of Mahashivratri 2022 and using to Fast which is understood that fasting purified the body and also our consciousness. 
It has been said that Lord Shiva feels pleasure when devotees worship him with the Belpatra on the 14th day of the waning moon in the month of Phalgun. 

Mahashivratri : Significance 
The day of Mahashivratri is very significant and crucial which is observed to worship Lord Shiva...the who is considered the Adi Guru or the First Guru, from whom the yogic tradition originates. 
Significance

However worshipping of Lord Shiva is very popular among the people and follower use to worship god with full of faith and to get all success in their life. 

Mahashivratri is observed a very auspicious occasion especially for women either married or unmarried. Married women worship Lord Shiva on the occasion of Mahashivratri and pray to the Lord Mahadev for the long live and well being of her husband and son. 

Even unmarried girls use to worship Lord Shiva on the occasion of Mahashivratri in a hope that God Shankar will wish her for the better life partner for her happy life. 


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