Holi festival started- Holi of pyre was played in Kashi
Kashi resonated with Har Har Mahadev
Holi of ashes was played on Rang Bhari Ekadashi
Varanasi. Holi festival started today in Kashi, the city of Lord Shiva, with full enthusiasm and gaiety on Gauna Rangbhari Ekadashi of Mata Shakti. In Kashi, the city of Baba Vishwanath, the ganas of Shiva disguised themselves as various ghosts, demons, and demons and played Holi with the hymns of Har Har Mahadev on the banks of the Ganges.
Mast Malang in Kashi, a group of his devotees carrying a band baaja and a procession on the occasion of the colorful Ekadashi of Mata’s Gauna, playing Holi with pyre ash was seen from the city to the Ganges Ghats. When he started dancing and singing with the garland, Kashi started to appear in the traditions. With the ashes of the pyre, the whole atmosphere started looking Shivaay. The disguise of the forms of Shiva’s Neelkanth and Mashannath engulfed in gaiety amidst the raging smoke and pyre of ash, then the cry of Har Har Mahadev also reverberated in the fiza.
When the devotees of Baba performed the tandava dance on the ashes of the pyre, Kashi’s Rome Rome, the respect of Kankar-Kankar Shankar of Shiv Shankar, was seen full of joy. When a fair of faith arose at the Ganga Ghat, the announcement of Har Har Mahadev started appearing in the forms of Shiva on the banks of the Ganges.
It is believed that Mata Parvati goes to her brother Sarang Nath’s house in the month of Sawan. Since then, Bhoot Bhavan resides in his in-laws’ house in Sarnath.
On the festival of Mahashivratri, the marriage of Shiva Parvati is organized and on Rangbhari Ekadashi, Mata Parvati’s cow is born.
According to the belief on this day, Goddess Parvati comes to Kashi from Sarnath, the abode of her brother Sarang Nath, on the auspicious occasion of which the devotees of Lord Shiva play Holi of Chita Bhasma.
