Sixteen Monday Fasting Method, Story And Udyapan Method

Solah Somwar Vrat is especially for people facing troubles in married life. This fast is also done to get a good and desired life partner. Mother Parvati herself is the initiator of the sixteen Mondays fast. Once he had incarnated on this earth, he once again performed the arduous penance of Somwar Vrat and Shiva Puja to attain Lord Shiva.

If possible, the fast should start from the month of Shravan and continue for 16 consecutive Mondays. Wake up early in the morning on Monday and take a bath regularly. Wear clean clothes. Clean and sanitise the house. Gather all the materials. Sit in front of the idol of Lord Shiva.

16th Monday Worship Material

Idols of Shiva, Bhang, Bel Patra, water, incense, lamp, Gangajal, Dhatura, perfume, white sandalwood, roli, ashtagandha, white cloth, naivedya which is made by roasting half a ser of wheat flour in ghee and mixing it with jaggery.

Vrat Puja resolution

To start any puja or vrat, one should first make a resolution. On the first day of the fast, a decision is taken. After that, you perform regular puja and fast. First of all, taking water, Akshat, betel leaf, betel nut and some coins in hand, make a resolution with the following mantra.

Om Vishnurvishnu Vishnu. Shri Madbhagavato Mahapurushasya Vishnoragnya Pravartamanasyadya Shribrahmano secondiparaardhe Shrishwetavarahkalpe Vaivaswatmanvantreeshtavinshatimme Kaliyuga Prathamcharane Jambudvipe Bharatvarshe Bharatkhande

aaryavartantargatabramavartaikadeshe punyapradeshe bauddhavatare vartamane yathanamasamvatsare amukamane mahamangalyaprade masanam uttame amukamase amukpakshe amukatithau amukavasaranvitayam amukanakshatre amukarashisthite surye amukamukarashisthiteshu chandrabhaumabudhagurushukrashanishu satsu shubhe yoge shubhakarane evam gunavisheshanavishishtayam shubha punyatithau sakalashastra shruti smruti puranokt falpraptikamah amukagotrotpannah amuk nam aham amuk karyasiddhiyaarth solah somavar vrat praarambha karishye .

Leave all the things with Lord Shiva. Now fold both hands and meditate on Lord Shiva.

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Holding Akshat and flowers in hand, join both hands and invoke Lord Shiva.

Om Shivshankarmishanam Dwadashardham Trilochanam.
Umasahitam devan shivam avahayamyaham.

Offer flowers and akshatas to Lord Shiva.

First of all, offer water to Lord Shiva.

Dedicate a white cloth after water.

* Apply tilak to the Lord with white sandalwood and apply Akshat on the tilak.

Offer white flowers, dhatura, bel leaves, bhang and garlands.

* Offer incense, incense and light a lamp.

* Offer seasonal fruits or bael and naivedya to the Lord as bhog.

After this, read or listen to the Monday fasting story. Keep in mind that at least one person must hear this story. The listener of the story also sat near the place of worship after being purified and wearing clean clothes. Then offer prayers to Lord Shiva. After the Deep Aarti, light the camphor and perform the Aarti with the Karpurgaura Mantra. Offer aarti to the people present and also take aarti yourself. It is very beneficial to hear and recite the praise of the glory of God on this day, so recite Shiv Steater Chalisa, Shivpuran etc. according to ability. Observe fast on the sixteenth day of the month. Add half of the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix to form a dough. Divide it into three parts. Now worship Lord Shiva during Pradosh Kaal with lamps, naivedya, pungifal, belpatra, dhatura, bhang, janeu ka joda, sandalwood, akshat, flowers, etc. Offer one egg to Lord Shiva. Distribute the two parts as prasad, and also take yourself. On the seventeenth Monday, make a bowl of wheat flour, ghee and jaggery and make churma.

The 16th Monday Story

Once upon a time, Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati were walking on the world of death. While roaming around he came to a city named Amravati in Vidarbha country. There was a beautiful Shiva temple in that city, so Mahadevji started living there with Parvatiji. One day, while talking, Parvati asked Shiva to play chausar. Lord Shiva agreed and started playing Chaucer.

At the same time, the priest of the temple came for the daily aarti, Parvati asked the priest, “Tell me who will win in Chausar among the two of us.” When the game of Chausar was over, Parvati won and Shiva lost. When Parvati got angry and wanted to curse the priest, Shiva stopped her and said that this is a game of luck and there is no fault of her, yet Mother Parvati cursed her for being a leper and she became a leper. He had been ill for a long time. One day an apsara came to that temple to worship Shiva and saw the leprosy of that priest. When the apsara asked the priest the cause of the leprosy, he narrated the whole incident to her. The apsara said to the priest, “You should fast sixteen Mondays to get rid of this leprosy.” Apsara said, “Washing clean clothes after taking a bath on Monday and making a panjiri with half a kilo of flour, dividing that panjiri into three parts, worshipping Lord Shiva during Pradosh Kaal, giving one-third of this panjiri as prasad to the people who come to the aarti, thus adopting the same method till the sixteenth Monday, making a churma with one-fourth wheat flour on the 17th Monday and offering it to Shiva and distributing it among the people, this will remove your leprosy. In this way, by fasting on sixteen Mondays, his leprosy was removed and he started living happily.

One day, Shiva and Parvati again returned to the temple and saw the priest in perfect health. Parvati asked the priest the secret of health. The priest said he fasted on 16 Mondays, which cured his leprosy. Parvati ji was very happy to hear about this fast. He also observed this fast and this made his son return home and become obedient. Kartikeya asked his mother the reason for his mental change so that he returned home. Parvati told him about the sixteen Monday fast behind all this. Kartikeya was very happy to hear this.

Kartikeya made that vow to meet his Brahmin friend who had gone abroad, and on the sixteenth Monday his friend returned from abroad to meet him. When his friend asked the reason for this rule, Kartikeya told the glory of Solah Somwar Vrat, on hearing this, that Brahmin friend also thought of observing Solah Somwar Vrat for marriage. One day the king was preparing for the marriage of his daughter. Many princes came to marry the king’s daughter. The king put a condition that whoever the elephant puts a garland around his neck, his daughter will be married to him. That Brahmin was also the same and as luck would have it, that elephant put a varmala around that Brahmin’s neck and as per the condition, the king got his daughter married to that Brahmin.

One day the princess asked the brahmin what good you had done that the elephant had left all the other princes and put a garland around your neck. She said, “Dear, I had fasted sixteen Mondays at the behest of my friend Kartikeya, as a result of which you got me a bride like Lakshmi.” The princess was very impressed to hear this and she also fasted sixteen Mondays to get a son.

Hearing this, he also kept this fast for the desire of kingship. At the same time a king was looking for a bridegroom to marry his daughter, and the people said that the boy was suitable for marriage. When the king came to know of this, he married his daughter to the boy. When the king died a few years later, he became king because he had no son. Even after getting the kingship, he continued to fast on Mondays. One day on the 17th Monday fast, his wife was also asked to come to the Shiva temple for worship, but she sent the maid instead of coming herself. After the worship of the Brahmin son was over, Akashwani happened, “You keep your wife away from your palace, otherwise you will be destroyed.” The Brahmin son was surprised to hear this.

When he returned to the palace, he also told his courtiers about this, so the courtiers said that the one who got the throne for him would take him out of the palace. But that Brahmin son threw him out of the palace. The princess came hungry and thirsty to an unknown city. An old woman was going to the market to sell yarn. As soon as he saw the princess, he asked her to help him in business with her. The princess also placed a basket on her head. After walking some distance, a storm came and the basket flew away. Now the old woman began to cry and asked the princess to leave, thinking it was ridiculous.

After that, he reached an oil house and as soon as he reached there, all the oil pots broke and the oil started flowing. That oil also thought him to be insane and drove him away from there. After that she reached near a beautiful pond and as soon as she started drinking water, insects started moving in that water and all the water became hazy. Cursing her misfortune, she drank the dirty water and fell asleep under the tree as soon as all the leaves of that tree fell. Now the leaves of the tree she went to would fall.

Seeing this, the people there went to the priest of the temple. The priest, understanding the pain of the princess, said to her, “Daughter, you stay with my family, I will keep you as my daughter, you will not have any problem in my ashram. “That’s how she started living in the ashram. Seeing this, the priest was surprised and said to her, “What kind of anger is this on you, daughter, that you are in such a condition,” she told the same story of not going to Shiva Puja. The priest worshipped Shiva and asked him to fast on the sixteenth Monday, which would surely give him relief.

He fasted on sixteen Mondays and on the 17th, the Brahmin son began to think about him, “Where will she be, I should look for her. “So he sent his men to look for his wife, and they came to the priest’s house and found the princess. He asked the priest to take the princess home, but the priest refused, saying, “Tell your king to come and take it himself.” The king himself came there and brought the princess back to his palace. In this way, whoever fasts on this sixteenth Monday, all his wishes are fulfilled.

The 16th Monday of Lent

Udjapana 16 is performed on the 17th Monday after the completion of the number of Mondays fast. It is best to do it on the first or third Monday of the month of Shravan. However, the fast can be observed on any Monday of the month of Kartik, Shravan, Jyestha, Vaishakh or Margashirsha. On the day of Maha Shivaratri, Chandraghanta, Uma and Maheshwar are worshipped together.

To observe this fast, wake up early in the morning, take a bath, and prepare a four-door mandap for worship. Make an altar and invoke the gods, and install the Kalash.

Then pour the water into a saucepan. Install Lord Shiva there with the Panchakshara Mantra (Om Namah Shivaya). Offer flowers, incense, incense, incense, incense, incense, incense, incense, incense, etc., to the deity. After this, you bathe Shiva with the five elements, and start the havan. At the end of the havan, give dakshina, and bhushan and donate cow to the Acharya. Also give them all the things of worship and later send them a good meal and you also take food.

Aarti of Mahadev

om jaya gangadhar jaya har jaya girijadhisha.

tvam maam palaya nityam krupaya jagadisha॥ har…॥

kailase girishikhare kalpadramvipine.

gunjati madhukarpunje kunjavane gahane॥

kokilkujit khelat hansavan lalita. rachayati kalakalapam nrutyati mudasahita ॥ har…॥

tasmilalitasudeshe shala manirachita.

tanmadhye haranikate gouri mudasahita॥

krida rachayati bhusharanchit nijamisham. indradik sur sevat namayate shisham ॥ har…॥

bibudhabadhu bahu nrutyat namayate mudasahita. kinnar gayan kurute sapt svar sahita॥

dhinakat thai thai dhinakat mrudang vadayate. kvan kvan lalita venum madhuram natayate ॥har…॥

runa runa charane rachayati nupuramujjvalita.

chakravarte bhramayati kurute tam dhik tam॥

tam tam lup chup tam tam damaru vadayate. angusthangulinadam lasakatam kurute ॥ har…॥

kapurradyutigauram panchananasahitam. trinayanshashidharamaulim vishadharakanthayutam॥

sundarajatayakalapam pavakayutbhalam. damarutrishulapinakam karadhrutanrukapalam ॥ har…॥

mundai rachayati mala pannagamupavitam. vaamvibhage girijarupam atilalitam॥

sundarasakalasharire kritbhasmabharanam. iti vrushabhadhvajarupam tapatrayaharanam ॥ har…॥

shankhaninadam krutva jhallari nadayate. nirajayate brama vedaricham pathate॥

atimruducharanasarojam hrutkamale dhrutva. avlokyati mahesham isham abhinatva॥ har…॥

dhyanam aarati samaye hridaye ati krutva. ramastrijatanatham isham abhinatva॥

sangatimevam pratidin pathanam yah kurute. shivsayujyam gachati bhaktya yah shrunute ॥ har…॥

Aarti of the three gods

om jaya shiv omkara…. ekaanan chaturanan panchamnan raje.

hansasanna, garudaasan, vrushavahan saaje॥ om jaya shiv omkara…

do bhuj charu chaturbhaj das bhuj ati sohen.

tinon rup nirkhata tribhuvan jan mohen॥

om jaya shiv omkara… akshamala, banamala, rundamaladhari.

chandan, mrudamaga sohen, bhale shashidhari॥ om jaya shiv omkara….

shvetambar,pitambar, baghaambar angeam.

sanakaadik, bramhadik, bhutadik sangeam..

om jaya shiv omkara…

kar ke madhya kamadaml chakra, trishul dharata.

jagakarta, jagabharta, jagasanharakarta॥

om jaya shiv omkara… bramha vishnu sadashiv janat aviveka.

pravanaakshar madhyem ye tinon eka॥ om jaya shiv omkara…

kaashee mein vishvanaath viraajat nandee bramhachaaree.

nit uthee bhog lagaavat mahima ati bhaaree. om jay shiv omkara…

trigun shivajee kee aaratee jo koee nar gaaven|

kahat shivaanand svaamee manavaanchhit phal paaven. om jay shiv omkara…

jay shiv omkara har om shiv omkara| bramha vishnu sadaashiv addhaangee dhaara. om jay shiv omkara.

Shiva Tandav Stotra composed by Ravana

jatatavigalajjal pravahapavitasthale gale̕valambya lambitam bhujangatungamalikam.

damdamdamdamaninadavaddamarvayam chakar chandtandavam tanotu nah shivah shivam ॥1॥

jata kata hasambhram bhramannilympanirjhari .

vilolavi chivallari virajmanamurdhani .

dhagaddhagaddh gajjvalallalat pattapavke kishorachandrasekhare ratih pratikshanam mamam ॥2॥

dhara dharendra nandini vilas bandhuvandhur-

sphuradrugant santati pramod manamanse .

krupakata kshadharani niruddhadurdharapadi kavachidvigambare mano vinodametu vastuni ॥3॥

jata bhujam gapingal sphuratphanamaniprabha-

kadambakunkum dravapralipt digvadhumukhe .

madandh sindhu rasphuratvaguttariyamedure mano vinodadbhutam bimbhartu bhutabhartari ॥4॥