Women, Mehendi & Green Bangles In Shrawan

 

The month of Shravan is in its peak now. This is the month, girls and women all are excited about painting their hands red with mehandi or Henna. Likewise, the women also opt to load their hands with green and red colour glass bangles. All these are done during this month, regarded auspicious for the married women.

About Santoshi Mata.....

सुख दाता, भाग्य बिधाता, माता जय जय सन्तोषी माता..... 

Name: Santoshi Maa

Santoshi Mata or Santoshi Maa is a relatively new goddess in the Hindu pantheon. She is venerated as "the Mother of Satisfaction". the meaning of her name.

Happy Dipawali / Tihar

 

WISHING ALL A VERY

HEARTY AND HAPPY DIWALI

GLOWING WITH PEACE, PROSPERITY, HAPPINESS, HEALTH & WEALTH..

May the festival of light encircle your life with Joy and Happiness. Let Success enter your doorsteps. With these good words I am sending my heartfelt wishes to one and all on Diwali and always.

 

 

Wish you all a very Happy Diwali and Prosperous New Year.

May this Diwali bring you loads of happiness in your life.

Avoid crackers and help environment...

Tihar (तिहार)(also called diwali in terai of Nepal) is a five-day hindu festival celebrated in nepal which comes soon after Dashain. Similar to Dipawali, where one day is celebrated for goddess Laxmi and the other one is celebrated to worship brothers for their long life. However, all ethnic groups celebrate this festival. The festival is celebrated from Trayodashi of Kartik Krishna to Katrik Shukla Dwitiya every year.The name Tihar means the festival of lights, where many candles are lit both inside and outside the houses to make it bright at night. The five-day festival is considered to be of great importance as it shows reverence to not just the humans and the Gods, but also to the animals like crow, cow and dog, who maintain an intense relationship with the humans.

 

1.  Kag Puja

2.  Kukur Puja

3.  Gai Puja and Laxmi Puja

4.  Gobhardan Puja and Mha: Puja

5.  Bhai Tika

Happy Teej SMS and Overview of Teej Festival in Nepal

Teej – The Festival And The History:

Teej is a fasting festival for Hindu women of some parts of India and Nepal. It takes place in August or early September. It is celebrated for marital bliss, well-being of spouse and children and purification of own body and soul. The festival is a three-day-long celebration that combines sumptuous feasts as well as rigid fasting.

Generally falling on the Hindu month of Shravan (August), it also celebrates the arrival of monsoon after a season of oppressive heat. "Teej" is a small red insect that comes out of the soil during rains.

In Nepal, the first day of Teej is called the "Dar Khane Din". On this day the women, both married and unmarried, mainly of Khas ethnicity, assemble at one place, in their finest attires and start dancing and singing devotional songs. Admists all this, the grand feast takes place. The jollity often goes on till midnight, after which the 24 – hour fast starts.

The second day is the fasting day. Some women live without a morsel of food and drops of water while others take liquid and fruit. On this day, they gaily dress and visit a nearby Shiva temple singing and dancing on the way. The Pashupatinath temple gets the highest number of devotees. At the Shiva temple, women circumambulate the Lingam, the symbol of the lord, offering flowers, sweets and coins. The main puja (religious ceremony) takes place with offerings of flowers, fruits etc made to Shiva and Parbati, beseeching teej is so hot their blessing upon the husband and family. The important part of the puja is the oil lamp which should be alight throughout the night for it is bad omen if it dies away.

The third day of the festival is Rishi Panchami. After the completion of the previous day’s puja, women pay homage to various deities and bathe with red mud found on the roots of the sacred datiwan bush, along with its leaves. This act of purification is the final ritual of Teej, after which women are considered absolved from all sins. The recent years have witnessed alteration in the rituals, especially concerning the severity, but its essence remains the same.

Teej is being celebrated just before one day of Ganesh Chaturthi. Married women do 24 hours nirjala fasting (without water or fruit) for the wellness of their spouse and married life.

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सन्तोषी माताका पिता गणेश माता ऋद्धि-सिद्धि; धन-धान्य, मोति-मुगा, रत्नहरुले भरिएको परिवार, गणपति पिताकी लड़ली, गणपति धौताको कमाइ, दरिद्रता दुर, कलह-क्लेशको नाश, सुख-शान्तिको प्रकाश, बालखहरुको फुलबारी, काम-धन्दामा लाभको भरिपूर्ण कमाइ, मनको कामना पूर्ण, शोक, बिपत्ति, चिन्ता सब चुर्ण, सन्तोषी माताको नाम जसबाट बनिजान्छन सबै काम, बोल सबै मिलेर---

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