Bathing and staying clean the worship of Lord Shiva in the form of Shiva lingam is done in the four jamuns (four equal time intervals) of the night.

Firstly perform Ganapati puja praying for no hurdles to the puja. Simply have a murti of Lord Ganesh and offer him incense, lamp and flowers.

Before the prayer starts make sure that you wash the lingam properly with water.
Now place the lingam on a tray.

You can perform the abhishekam in your prayer room. Also you should have made during the day 4 flower garlands.
Many use cloths to dress the linga after each abhishekam. But this is optional).

Also make sure that you have at least 4-incense stick, 4 camphor and 4 whole flowers for the arati. Get from a temple lot of Bael leaves.

Then at 18h00 the first abhishek is performed. While chanting mantras of Lord Shiva bath the Linga with milk (which should be in a lota/pot).

Then after offering the milk with one lota of water bath the lingam.

Then with a clean cloth only used for the prayer dab the lingam to remove the excess liquids.

Now place bael leaves on top of the Lingam and with chandan paste with the ring finger of your right hand draw three lines on the lingam and on the centre line dot it with kum-kum.

Then garland the lingam and now offer arati with incense, lamp and flower 7 times around the Lingam.  This is the end of the first Jamun.

At 21h00 the 2nd Jamun is performed. Please replace the Milk above with yoghurt and the procedure is the same.

At 00h00 the 3rd Jamun is performed. Please replace Milk above with ghee and the procedure is the same. Do not use one lota of ghee, rather in a lota add ¼ teaspoon of ghee and add luke warm water to it.

At around 15h00 - 16h00 the 4th and last Jamun is performed.  Please replace Milk above with honey and the procedure is the same. Do not use one lota of honey, rather in a lota add ¼ teaspoon of honey and add luke warm water to it.

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