Bhimashankar - Panchamrut Abhishek

Panchamrit Abhishek Puja is a sacred Hindu ritual where a deity is ceremonially bathed with a mixture of five ingredients: milk, yogurt, honey, ghee (clarified butter), and sugar, known as Panchamrit. The five main ingredients are used to make Panchamrita, including milk, curd, honey,and sugar. These are all mixed. Mantras are chanted throughout the process, and once the puja is completed, the Panchamrut is distributed as prasad. Five liquids are poured over the deities and the mantra. Panchamrit Abhishek is performed to invoke the blessings of Rudra in the form of Lord Shiva. Performing this puja in Bhimashankar is auspicious

At first Sankalp is taken in the name of the devotees. Then devotees invoke Lord Shiva with mantras and prayers chanted by the pujari. After that, milk, curd, honey, sugar and ghee are used for Abhishek on Bhimashankar Jyotirlinga along with mantras chanted by the pujari. At last, arti is done by the pujari of Bhimashankar temple and blessings are taken by the devotees.