Chhath Puja 2023: Chhath Puja is the emblem to concludes with maintaining the Values of Simplicity, Purity and Discipline. According to the traditional calendar, the Evening Offering to Sun is observed on the Sashti Tithi of the Kartik month, Shukla Paksha. Chhath Puja is being celebrated by the Indian community since ancient times.
With offering obeisance to the rising Sun the Chhat Puja usec to be completed. The 36 hours fast is observed for the welfare and progress of the family, society and the country. This festival finds mention the Rigveda, Vishnu Puran, Bhagwat Puran, Brahm Puran etc.
There are many stories heard about this festival. It is said that when Lord Ram returned Ayodhya after killing Ravana, he worshipped Sun God in the evening of the sixth day of Kartik Maas. Even in Mahabharat age when Kauravas forced the Pandavas to go in exile then their mother Kunti worshipped God Sun for the victory and protection of Pandavas on the advice of Lord Krishna.
This helped the Pandavas to defeat the Kauravas. There is also one story that son the Lord Krishna Shamb suffered from leprosy. He was so much frustrated that he wanted to die.
But he heard a Akaashwani that he should offer obeisance to the setting Sun on the sixth and to the rising Sun on the seventh day of Kartik. He performed this worship and got rid of the disease and lived for more hundred years.
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