Bengaluru: Local Communities Join In To Celebrate Naga Panchami at Sadhguru Sannidhi

9 August 2024: Celebrating Naga Panchami—a festival that honours the sacred serpent—Sadhguru Sannidhi, Bengaluru, today organised a cultural event featuring participation from local communities, along with traditional celebrations and offerings to Naga. The festivities include a three-day jathre (village fair) at Sadhguru Sannidhi, which is free and open to all.

Besides a 3-day jathre, the cultural event included enthralling performances by local village artists and Sounds of Isha, Isha’s homegrown band, in addition to Adiyogi Divya Darshana, video imaging show mapped on the 112-foot Adiyogi. 

The Naga Panchami celebrations began at 6:20 PM on August 9 was livestreamed on the Linga Bhairavi channel. Prominent celebrities, politicians, and the general public, including local villagers, turned up in large numbers to join the festive celebration.

In a display of devotion, local communities from five villages within a five-kilometer radius of Sadhguru Sannidhi walked to the Naga shrine to offer milk to the sacred serpent on the occasion. An offering of milk is believed to appease Naga and bring his grace and blessings to the community. Sadhguru has established Naga as a Kshetrapala or Protector for the region.

Throughout the day, people flocked in large numbers to perform powerful rituals, designed by Sadhguru, to earn the grace of Naga. Among the most popular offerings was the Benne Seva where devotees could directly apply specially prepared butter on Naga. Said to be a potent process, it allows the devotee to physically be in touch with Naga’s energies. Other offerings included Naga Panchami Deepa Arpane, Naga Panchami Karkotaka Arpane, Naga Panchami Sarpa Seva and Naga Dosha Nivarana Kriya.

This is the second year that Sadhguru Sannidhi celebrated Naga Panchami at its Naga shrine, which has been drawing thousands of people from all over the world since the Sacred Serpent was consecrated by Sadhguru in 2022.

Watch the livestream of the celebration: https://www.youtube.com/live/dPLwNxcm5vo

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