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The Kedarnath temple is decorated with flowers. The Panchmukhi Doli Yatra of God arrived on Thursday evening.
The doors of Kedarnath Dham will open at 7 am on Friday. Baba Kedar’s Panchmukhi Doli has reached Dham on Thursday evening. But before that there will be a law to open the doors of the temple and the sanctum sanctorum. This legislation is also interesting.
The temple will first enter Rawal Bhimshankar, the chief of Veerashaiva Lingayat community in Karnataka. The sanctum sanctorum and the temple will be cleaned after the unbroken Jyoti darshan. The Bhishma Shringar, who was offered 6 months ago, will be removed 6 months ago with the mantras of Rudrabhishek, Shivashtak, Shiva Tandava Stotra and Kedarashtak.
After the opening of the doors of Kedarnath, devotees will be able to visit for 6 months. If the weather is correct between June and August, then this time more than 25 lakh people are expected to reach Kedarnath Dham. Chardham Yatra has started. The doors of Gangotri and Yamunotri Dham have opened on 30 April (Akshaya Tritiya).

The picture of Baba Kedarnath’s sanctum sanctorum is on 22 July 2023, when a devotee made it viral on social media.
Baba’s Bhishma Shringar is done in 5 hours
- The process of removing Bhishma Shringar is also interesting after opening the board. First of all, remove the seasonal fruits and dry fruits kept near the Shivling. This is called Argha.
- Then, climbing Baba, one to 12 Mukhi Rudraksha garlands. After this, the white cotton cloth wrapped around on the Shivling is removed.
- While closing the board, 6 liters of melted pure ghee on the Shivling, which accumulates at this time, removes it slowly from the Shivling.
- After this, the Ganges bath of Shivling takes place. After bathing cow urine, milk, honey and panchamrit, Baba Kedar will be prepared by applying new flowers, ash paste and sandalwood tilak.
- Bhishma Shringar takes about 5 hours while closing the doors, but it is removed in half an hour while opening the doors. The devotees will start sending to the sanctum sanctorum at 7:30 am.
This time the crowd is slightly less, empty room in Gaurikund
This time 11 thousand people have registered for darshan on the first day. However, for Kedardham, the Gaurikund from which 16 km hiking begins, has been filled around 1100 out of the 1500 rooms available there. Hotels, lodge businessmen say that this time there is no crowd like last year on the first day. So far 23 lakh devotees have registered for Chardham Yatra. In this too, 7.30 lakh devotees are going to go to Kedarnath. Last year, a total of 19.50 lakhs visited Baba Kedar.
Photos of Kedarnath temple dressing …

The Panchmukhi Doli Yatra of God reached Kedarnath Dham.

A huge crowd of devotees gathered to visit the Lord’s Panchmukhi Doli Yatra.

The entire temple is decorated with fighters of 45 different varieties of flowers.

Flowers were called from Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Bihar, West Bengal, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Delhi.

50 artisans from Pt. Bengal have also been called for decoration, who specializes in the artwork of flowers.

Apart from 8 states of the country, flowers have also been ordered from Thailand, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

Kedarnath is one of the 12 Jyotirlingas. It is located at an altitude of 11,968 feet in Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand.

The Kedarnath temple remains closed for 6 months. This temple is a symbol of the beginning of the Chardham pilgrimage.
Kedarnath will also be able to go by helicopter
Kedarnath Dham can also go by helicopter. This service will remain from Sonamarg. Helicopter operator Pawan Rana said that IRCTC can book online. Offline tickets can be taken from DM Office or Sector Magistrate. We will provide service 20-30 times daily. In this, more than 150 pilgrims will be transported to Kedarnath every day.
Rana also told that the helicopter service will be decided according to the season. If the weather is clear, we will run 25-30 flights daily. If the weather is bad then the tickets will be canceled. This decision has been taken in view of the safety of passengers.
Badrinath Dham’s doors will open on 4 May
The doors of Badrinath (Chamoli district), one of the four dhams of Uttarakhand, will open on 4 May. Earlier on May 1, Uttarakhand’s DGP Deepam Seth and ADG V Murugesh reviewed arrangements like security, traffic management, crowd control.
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