“Posters displayed, banners hanged and volunteers in blue jackets distributing pamphlets, often found to be answering the querries posed, discussing or sharing… with the visitors”
Any guesses !!!
Yes you are right, this is the description of the days around Mahashivratri, a hindu pious festival impregnating a very deep journey of oneness of Shiva and Shakti Within. But, Today we hardly question or try to know the import behind what ‘oneness’ actually means here. Mostly because we don’t want to think beyond the concept of fulfilling the needs of our physical selves and we therefore have made this occasion too as one of the justifiable days for practising deformations, myths and utter untruth in the name of our revered trinity, Lord Shiva. Around this festival of Shivratri, hundreds of tons of drugs are officially reported to have been seized, thousands die, many lose their precious lives on hospital beds etc. As a result, a contrastingly opposite activities are being observed as innately opposed to what this festival clearly and rhetorically stands for. Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan founded/mentored by His Holiness Ashutosh Maharaj ji under the banner of its Drug Abuse Eradication Program, (Bodh), on the occasion of such an importful festival of Mahashivratri takes this as an opportunity to reach out to people for sensitizing them not to associate drugs with Lord shiva. Countering the greatest myth which is being largely prevailed in our communities, ‘bhagwan shiv bhi to bhaang ka nasha lete they’, lakhs of our selfless volunteers reach out to corporate houses, communities, government firms, schools, colleges and other institutions through different activities for highlighting the import of this festival of mahashivratri.
In the series, an active team of West Delhi center of DJJS visited four famous temples to hold exhibition, posters and information desks within the temple premises, very much located in the vicinity of Vishnu Garden.
