{"id":451,"date":"2012-04-09T20:02:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T14:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/?p=451"},"modified":"2012-04-09T20:02:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T14:32:33","slug":"mahashivaratri-the-night-of-awakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/451","title":{"rendered":"Mahashivaratri \u2013 The Night of Awakening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brahmasthanam temple and the Yagnashala wore a festive look on February 20 2012, as devotees thronged to participate in the Mahashivaratri festival and partake of Lord Shiva\u2019s blessings. \u00a0 The evening program commenced with the Mahamrityunjaya\u00a0 Homam at 5.30 pm with the chanting of the Guru Stotram, the Guru Paduka Stotram and the Guru Ashtakam in obeisance to Lord Shiva, the Primordial Guru .\u00a0\u00a0 A few bhajans invoking the divine benevolence of Lord Shiva, were sung.<\/p>\n<p>The scene of devotion and fervor soon shifted to the Brahmasthanam temple, where devotees assembled together and chanted the Lalita Sahasranamam, following it up with the chanting of `Aum Namaha Shivaya\u2019, culminating in the Maha arati and Mahaprasad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brahmasthanam temple and the Yagnashala wore a festive look on February 20 2012, as devotees thronged to participate in the Mahashivaratri festival and partake of Lord Shiva\u2019s blessings. \u00a0 The evening program commenced with the Mahamrityunjaya\u00a0 Homam at 5.30 pm with the chanting of the Guru Stotram, the Guru Paduka Stotram and the Guru [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}