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Mahashivratri - Rudraksha Diksha 🙏

About Mahashivratri Shivratri is celebrated at the end of the Navaratri festival. Puranas say that Lord Shiva drank the poison from the pot which emerged from Samudra Manthan and held it in his throat. Since then, he is known as Neelakantha (blue throat). Shivratri is celebrated as an event since then when Lord Shiva saved the world from this poison. Many great stories are mentioned in the Shiv Purana and one of them is this one: Brahma and Vishnu were fighting over who was superior. They resorted to Lord Shiva for assistance. Shiva took the form of fire and spread across the universe to show why this war was futile. The other Gods were terrified and went to Lord Shiva for help. Shiva then formed a massive fireball that spread between heaven and earth. Seeing this magnitude, both gods decided that they needed to find one end to establish supremacy over the other to win their battle. Brahma assumed the form of a swan and ascended upwards while Vishnu took Varaha, and descended into...