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MAHARUDRAM, FRI, DEC 1 – SUN, DEC 3
MAHARUDRAM
DEC 1st to DEC 3rd
Fri, Dec 1st – Sankalpam & kalasthapanam
Sat, Dec 2nd
8:00 a.m.- Mahanyasam
followed by Round 1 Rudrabishekam
1:30 p.m. – Round 2 – Rudrabishekam
5:30 p.m. – Sahasrabilvarshana
Sun, Dec 3rd
8:30 a.m. – Ekadasa Rudram Homam
12:00 noon – Shiva Parvati Kalyanam
The temple plans to conduct Mahrudram during the auspicious month of Karthika . The Sri Rudram will be chanted a total of 1331 times followed by Dasamsa Rudra Homam. It is considered one of the highest form of community worship, performed for the welfare of mankind, washing away all sins and afflictions, to bring about peace and prosperity.
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Sri Rudram is a hymn that occurs in the Krishna Yajur veda and consists of Namakam and Chamakam. It is offered to the Supreme, visualized as Rudra (Fierce form) or Shiva (the Auspicious form), whose energy is said to permeate every speck of space, every unit of time, every particle of creation.
The Namakam elucidates that it is the Lord who pervades the cosmos, as sunshine and fire, as air and water, the Earth and her inhabitants – the green foliage, mountains, caves, rivers, fertile lands, thorny forests. It is again the Lord who dwells in the vice and the virtuous, cause of good health and knowledge, death and thereby liberation. He is said to be the primordial cause and its subsequent effect.
The chamakam enlists all that one can possibly seek from the Divine. The list of 347 entreaties defines the highest degree of desires to be asked and to be granted. A complete understanding will tell us that there is nothing more to pray for than what is asked in the Chamakam. Again the application is on behalf of humanity and never for the individual seeker.
Sri Rudram or Rudra Prasna is a part of Yajurveda and is considered one of the greatest vedic hymns dedicated to bhagawan Shiva. The greatness of Sri Rudram is referenced in different places in our itihasa, Puranas, vedas and also local folklore. The most potent panchakshari Mantra of Bhagwan Shiva and the Mahamritunjaya Mantra for liberation form part of sri rudram. The greatness of Sri Rudram is in the fact that it can be recited as a part of homa, abisheka or archana.
- Eleven recitations of Namakam followed by one recitation of Chamakam are called “Ekadasa Rudram”.
- Eleven rounds of Ekadasa Rudram chanting constitute a “Laghu Rudram”.
- Eleven rounds of Laghu Rudram chanting constitutes a “Maha Rudram”, and
- Eleven rounds of MahaRudram chanting constitute an “Ati Rudram”.
It is widely believed that chanting or mere listening to Sri Rudram has material and spiritual benefits, and alleviates sufferings of all kinds. One of the grandest ways of reciting Rudram where in the set pattern is repeated 1331 times is known as Maha Rudram which is extremely powerful. Maha Rudra parayana when coupled with Abhishekam, Havanam and Brahmana Bhojana makes it a Maha Rudra Yagam and is unparalled in its importance.
