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Ujjain Mahakaleswar & Omkareshwar Jothirling darshan - Part 2 30-04-17 Sunday Early morning 12AM all woke up and taken bath in the room. rushed to the basma aarthi queue.we have taken rental cups for abishekam. In the counter they check all aadhar card and entry slips. Then allowed us in the queue. before us 100 -150 person are there.  We half slept in the queue.few were chanting mantra.Sharp 4AM TV sets are ON. the queue started moving. R oom is vibrated with HARA HARA MAHADEV HARA HARA MAHADEV" in the slope every one was running, person in the corner advice us to come fast.i just filled water in my jug and rushed to the mahakal karpa grigham poured water on mahakal with my son srinath the persons are telling quick & quick. after our turn. only few are allowed.only 30 minutes allowed for abhishekam we are fortune to do the abishekam. W sit in the hall.earlier lot of peoples are sitting there. we also went and seated where ever the small gap is available. Then pri...

Ujjain Mahakaleswar & Omkareshwar Jothirling darshan -  Part 1 We started from Chennai to visit Ujjain Mahakaleswar. We have taken the Tamilnadu express train 10pm from Chennai central. it reached Bhopal 8:45Pm next day.30 min late. then we took Bhopal to Ujjain train 23:40 taken 40 min late and reached Ujjain 30 min late, reached at 3:00 AM Taken autos to Mahakaleswar dharmasala where we have booked our rooms through internet.  this is run by temple it self. room was clean & tidy. Woke up around 5 Am and went to take bath in SHIPRA river. it is walk-able distance from our place. Rudra sagar lake in the right side was dry & left side was with little water the river was big. lights are there in the ghats.hence we have taken a bath and rushed to our rooms.  refreshed our self and went to have darshan of Ujjan Mahakaleswar.  The temple was medium in size. we went joined in the queue. The queue moves at normal speed.  The queue moves to hall in ...