Vishweshwara Vrat 2025: Date, Time, Significance, Rituals And Vrat Katha

Vishweshwara Vrat 2025: According to the Hindu calendar, the third day of Bhishma Panchak is known as Vishweshwara Vrat. This significant vratam is dedicated to the worship of Mahadev. Lord Shiva is also known as Vishweshwara Bhole Shankar A famous temple dedicated to the worship of Bholenath is located in Yeluru in Karnataka. The Vishweshwara Vrat is observed with utmost enthusiasm at this sacred place, where devotees seek Lord Shiva's blessings and a prosperous life. Below, learn the significance of this fast and find all the important information about the date, time, and rituals associated with this day.

Vishweshwara Vrat 2025: Date And Time

This year, Vishweshwara Vrat will be observed on 3rd November, 2025, Monday. This sacred vrat is observed before Manikarnika snan during Bhishma Panchak.

Vishweshwara Vrat 2025: Significance

Vishweshwara Vrat holds utmost significance in Hinduism. This fast is dedicated to Lord Shiva, and it is believed that anyone who observes this fast according to proper customs receives the choicest blessings of Mahadev. One of the famous temple dedicated to the Vishweshwara form of Lord Shiva is located in Karnataka which is known as the Vishweshwara Temple or the Yeluru Vishweshwara Temple, also known as the Mahathobara Yeluru Sri Vishweshwara Temple.

Anyone who observes this sacred vat dedicated to Lord Shiva receives his blessings and enjoys happiness and prosperity in life. The devotees who wish to have all their wishes fulfilled should perform Rudrabhishekam on the sacred occasion of Vishweshwara Vrat.

Vishweshwara Vrat 2025: Rituals

Devotees observe a day-long fast and offer sacred items like bilva leaves, coconut oil or water, panchamritam, flowers and sweets to the sacred Shiv lingam. Devotees additionally perform the Rudrabhishekam to seek the blessings of Vishweshwar Bholenath. Throughout the day, the devotees chant mantras like Mahamriyunjaya Mantra or Shiv Panchakshari Mantra, and culminate the fast the next day after performing charity and feeding the brahmins and the poor.

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Lord Shiva is worshipped in his Vishweshwara Bholenath form during the sacred occasion of Vishweshwara Vrat. (Image Source: Freepik) 

Vishweshwara Vrat 2025: Vrat Katha

There was a king named Kunda of the Kuthara dynasty. King Kunda once invited Sage Bhargava to his palace, but Sage Bhargava declined the king's invitation, saying that his kingdom had no temples or sacred rivers where he could worship on the third day of the Bhishma Panchak, before Kartik Purnima.

Understanding the reason for Sage Bhargava's refusal, King Kunda left his kingdom and went to the banks of the River Ganga to seek the blessings of Lord Shiva. There, King Kunda performed various yagnas. Lord Shiva was pleased with these yagnas and asked King Kunda to grant him any boon. Afterwards, King Kunda requested Lord Shiva to stay in his kingdom as a boon.

Lord Shiva was so pleased with King Kunda's rituals that he happily agreed to reside in his kingdom. However, when Lord Shiva stopped at a kanda tree, he noticed a tribal woman searching for her son, lost in the forest. The woman, searching for her son, went to the kanda tree and struck it with a sword, but instead, blood began to gush from the tree.

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Seeing the blood gushing from the tree, she realised it wasn't a kanda, but her son. She began crying and loudly calling out her son's name, "Yelu." Then, Lord Shiva appeared before her in the form of a linga. The linga from that sword can still be seen at the Yeluru Vishweshwara Temple. Therefore, this auspicious day has been celebrated since that day. It is strongly believed that the Yeluru Sri Vishweshwara Temple in Karnataka is built on the spot where Lord Shiva appeared in the form of a linga.

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