Lagatar24 Desk
Haridwar, Nov.18: Haridwar’s Har-ki-Pauri ghat will be illuminated with 11,000 diyas (earthen lamps) on Thursday evening on the occasion of Dev Deepawali, following the ‘Deepotsav’ in Ayodhya.
Dev Diwali, also known as Dev Deepawali, occurs 15 days following Diwali. Every year on the 15th lunar day of the Hindu calendar’s Kartik month, i.e. Kartik Purnima, it is commemorated. It occurs in the months of November and December on the Gregorian calendar.
Shri Ganga Sabha Haridwar, the controlling executive body of Har-ki-Pauri, is hosting this Deepotsav event in Haridwar. Lord Vishnu and all the deities will be worshipped and greeted by thousands of lights being lit at Har-ki-Pauri Brahmakund Ganges on this occasion. Pilgrim priests will light the lamps, and Shri Mahant Ravindra Puri, National President of the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad (Niranjani), will be there, along with other priests.
Puri and Shri Ganga Sabha General Secretary Tanmay Vashisht urged local residents and devotees who will visit Dharmanagari Haridwar on this occasion to light five lamps at each of the surrounding Ganga ghats. On Dev Deepawali, he said, efforts are being made to create a festive mood at all of Haridwar’s Ganga Ghats.
Voluntary organisations have started preparations for the Ganga Mahotsav and Dev Deepawali celebrations. Simultaneously, people are being urged to participate in the event by burning a lamp on the Ganges’ banks. The police administration has taken extra security precautions in this regard.
