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Happy Dhanteras - TRADITIONS & IMPORTANCE Of Dhanteras

Happy Dhanteras


Dhanteras – This day marks the beginning of the celebrations before Diwali, it is celebrated not only in India but also outside India. The significance is the prayers offered to the Goddess of Wealth- Lakshmiji and it occurs on the 13th day of the Ashvin month. People also clean and decorate their homes with Rangoli and diyas for marking the start of the festivities and announcing the arrival of Lakshimiji to their homes. Every house looks bright and beautiful and is bejeweled with decors and colored lights.

HOW DHANTERAS IS CELEBRATED

Usually individuals clean and decorate their home on this auspicious occasion by whitewashing, thorough cleaning, interior, and exterior decorating of the house, making Rangolis, lighting clay diyas, and many more traditions.

They stick the Goddess Lakshmi’s ready-made footprints to come back with wealth and prosperity. After sunset, by providing rose or marigold garland, sweets, ghee diyas, dhoop deep, agarbatti, camphor, and so on, individuals give puja to the Goddess Lakshmi and Lord Ganesh for wealth, knowledge, and well-being.

For Goddess Lakshmi and Lord Ganesh, people chant mantras, bhakti songs, and arti. People wear new clothes and jewelry and at someplace they also play the gambling game.

The lamp is lit in the evening and Dhan-Lakshmi is greeted in the house. Designs from Alpana or Rangoli are made on paths including the footprints of the goddess to mark Lakshmi’s arrival. Aartis or hymns of devotion are sung eulogizing Goddess Lakshmi and she is offered sweets and fruits.

Hindus, along with Goddess Lakshmi on Dhanteras, also worship Lord Kuber as treasurer of wealth and the bestower of wealth. The possibility of doubling the advantages of such prayers is the practice of worshipping Goddess Lakshmi and God Kuber together.

People rush to the jewelers and buy jewelry or utensils of gold or silver to venerate the Dhanteras occasion.

TRADITIONS & IMPORTANCE Of Dhanteras

According to Hindu mythology, there are vivid varieties of customs and traditions followed at this festival. People consider it good to buy metallic things such as gold or silver coins, jewelry items, new utensils, or other new things. People think that buying new things is the sign of Lakshmi coming home for the whole year. Lakshmi Puja is done in the evening and people lit various diyas or earthen lamps in order to drive out the shadow of the evil spirit. People recite bhakti hymn, aarti, and mantras as well to drive out the evil powers.

People in the villages decorate their cattle and worship them, as they are their major source of income. South Indians offer decorated cows as an embodiment of the Goddess Lakshmi. People perform Lakshmi puja during the shubhmuhurta according to the calendar. At some places, seven cereals (wheat, gram, barley, Urad, Moong, Masoor) are worshipped while performing puja. Golden flowers and sweets are offered during puja to Mata Lakshmi.

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