The doors of the Eleventh Jyotirlinga Lord Kedarnath temple were closed by law after the Samadhi Puja process.
Rudraprayag. The doors of the famous Eleventh Jyotirlinga Lord Kedarnath temple in Uttarakhand Char Dham were closed for the winter season by law on Saturday, on the occasion of Bhaiya Dooj, after the process of samadhi in Anuradha Nakshatra in Scorpio. The process of closing the doors started from Brahmamuhurta.
At 6 o’clock in the morning, the priest Bagesh Ling invoked Lord Bhairavnath, the Digpal of Kedarnath Dham, in the presence of the religious leaders, covered the Syambhu Shivling with Vibhuti and dry flowers and placed him in the form of samadhi.
Parikrama amidst the tunes of band bajans, the
doors of the main gate were closed for winter at exactly 8 in the morning. A large number of devotees witnessed the closure of the doors on this occasion. Clad in a white sheet of snow, Panchmukhi Doli from Kedarnath Dham circumambulated the temple amidst the devotional tunes of army bands. After this, after going through various halts, left for Omkareshwar temple,
Ukhimath, the place of winter seat. Snow is frozen in the entire Kedarnath. The weather has turned cold. Helicopter service is still going on here.
Now what will happen next
, Panchmukhi Doli of Lord Kedarnath left for the first stop Rampur after the exclamation of Jai Shri Kedar after circumambulating the temple. Tomorrow on 7th November, Doli will reach Vishwanath temple for Guptkashi stay. On November 8, the Panchmukhi Doli of Lord Kedarnath will sit at the Omkareshwar Temple Ukhimath, the place of Panch Kedar Gaddi. With this, the winter worship of Lord Lord Kedarnath will start.
What is the situation in Uttarakhand
Chardham The doors of Gangotri Dham were closed on 4th November for winter. The doors of Shri Yamunotri Dham will be closed today. On November 20, the doors of Lord Badri Vishal will be closed for winter. The doors of Lord Madmaheshwar ji will be closed on 22nd November. Madmaheshwar fair will be held in Ukhimath on 25th November.
According to the information received so far, more than four and a half lakh pilgrims had reached for the darshan of Char Dham, out of which more than two lakh forty thousand reached the darshan of Lord Kedarnath.
Here are
the members of Uttarakhand Chardham Devasthanam Board Srinivas Posti, Devasthanam Board member Ashutosh Dimri, Commissioner Garhwal and Chief Executive Officer of Devasthanam Board Ravinath Raman, District Magistrate Manuj Goyal, Additional Chief Executive Officer of Devasthanam Board,
BD Singh were present at the time of closure of Kedarnath Dham. , Superintendent of Police Ayush Agarwal, Deputy District Magistrate Jitendra Verma,
Jal Vidyut Nigam DG KK Bisht and Anurag Bisht Devanand Gairola, Kedar Sabha President Vinod Shukla, Yogendra Singh, Shiv Singh Rawat, Assistant Engineer Girish Deoli, Police Outpost in-charge Manjul Rawat,
Temple Administrative Officer Yaduveer Pushpawan, Accounts Officer in-charge RC Tiwari, Dharmacharya Aonkar Shukla, Manager Arvind Shukla and Pradeep Semwal were present.