This festival is celebrated on Vaisakh Sudi Chaudas, same day when Narasimha Jayanti is celebrated — it means one vrat and two advantages. But along with Narasimha people also worship Shivlinga.
For Shivlinga worship, this day people make Shivlinga out of wheat-flour, and let it dry for few hours (one may use blower or other methods for quick dry-up). After it they make it snana by Panchamrit (Honey, Curd, Milk, Gangajal, Kheer, etc); after snana one should apply plenty of kumkum, let it cover in kumkum; now offering comes by dhoop, deep, flowers, naivedya and other things favorite to lord Shiva like Bel-Patra and Dhatura.
After offering one should chant his mantra, the universal and popular are “Om Namah Shivay” and “Om Tryambakam Yajamahe [..] mantra”; though there are lots of mantras and stotras both Vedic and Tantric for different purposes, one should chant them under expert guidance.
Special significance of this day is, one can do Sayuj Sadhana of both lord Shiva and lord Narasimha in one shot, perhaps there might be a mantra for that or some high level guru can create one for you.
Lord Shiva is Adi-Guru, Adi-Yogi and a great deity — who has compassion and understanding for everyone whether he is a Devata or Rakshas. Most of time, you may find Mahavidyas (Kali, Tara, Shodashi, Bhuvaneshwari, Bhairavi, Baglamukhi, Chinnamasta, Dhoomavati, Matangi and Kamla) having their feet on his body; his mystery and his play sometimes isn’t so easy to understand.
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