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This
kind of offering of the same item for the second time is honoured
and accepted. ' No where such practice is observed in India; for,
once if anything is offered to God, it is final and only the giver,
receives it back as mahaprasad, and so deemed unfit for further
offering to any god. Lesser in rank even is not Mahakala combining
karuna and samhara in Himself, the most strangest among the
strangest. Some refer the bilva leaves after duly washing them
again. Sivapurana deals this topic at length and justifies it with
proof. The visitors usually taking bath on the Ratnaghat of the
river Sipra flowing nearby, worship the Lord with great devotional
fervor accompanied by `Harahara Mahadev' slogans which reverberating
the entire region rend the skies to reaching the Kailas to awaken
Him, as it were, to grant them boons.
Now
comes Omkareswar lying very near to this but on the bank of Narmada
enshrining the Omkareswar Jyotir Linga, that emancipated illustrious
personages.
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