Govardhan Puja 2025: When should you perform Govardhan Puja, October 21 or 22? Learn the rituals and auspicious time.
Govardhan Puja 2025: Govardhan Puja is performed every year on the day after Diwali. The festivals of Annakut and Suhag Padwa are also celebrated on this day. Religious texts describe these fasts and festivals as having special significance.
When is Govardhan Puja 2025? Every year, the festival of Govardhan Puja is celebrated on the Pratipada date of the Shukla Paksha (bright fortnight) of Kartik month.
Although this festival is celebrated with devotion throughout the country, it is most celebrated in Gokul, Mathura, and Vrindavan, where Govardhan Mountain is located.
During this festival, women worship Govardhan Mountain by making a shape of it from cow dung outside their homes. This year, there is confusion among people regarding the date of Govardhan Puja. Find out more about when to celebrate Govardhan Puja in 2025…
What is the correct date of Govardhan Puja 2025?
Although Govardhan Puja is usually celebrated the day after Diwali, this time it won't be the case because Kartik Amavasya will last for two days. Diwali will be celebrated on Monday, October 20th.
The next day, on Tuesday, October 21st, the Amavasya Tithi will last until 5:54 pm. According to Ujjain's astrologer, Pandit Praveen Dwivedi, Govardhan Puja is performed in the morning, which is the situation on Wednesday, October 22nd. Therefore, this festival will be celebrated on October 22nd only.
Govardhan Puja 2025 auspicious time
- 06:26 am to 08:42
- am 03:29 pm to 05:44 pm
How to perform Govardhan Puja? Learn the method
- All the women who want to perform Govardhan Puja should wake up early in the morning on Wednesday, October 22, take a bath etc. and take a resolution for Govardhan Puja.
- Do not bring any negative thoughts in your mind throughout the day, eat Satvik food. Do not speak ill of anyone or gossip. Chant the mantras of Lord Krishna in your mind.
- In the auspicious time mentioned above, make the shape of Govardhan mountain from cow dung in the courtyard of the house. Keep an idol or picture of Lord Krishna nearby.
- Wear a garland of flowers on Govardhan mountain. Offer kumkum, rice etc. Light a lamp of pure ghee. Offer food and finally perform aarti.
- Similarly, worship Lord Krishna. Feed Brahmins and send them off after giving them donations. This will bring you auspicious results.
Story of Govardhan Puja
According to the Srimad Bhagavatam, when Lord Krishna was a child, the people of Gokul worshipped Lord Indra, hoping for good rains. Upon learning of this, Lord Krishna told everyone, "It's Indra's job to bring rain. Mount Govardhan provides for our cows, so we should worship it."
Everyone then obeyed Lord Krishna and worshipped Mount Govardhan. Seeing this, Lord Indra became enraged and began pouring downpours on Gokul.
To save everyone, Lord Krishna lifted Mount Govardhan on his finger, saving all the villagers.
When Lord Krishna held Mount Govardhan on his finger for seven days, Indra realized that Lord Krishna was no ordinary human being but an incarnation of Lord Vishnu himself. Indra then apologized to Lord Krishna, beginning the tradition of worshipping Govardhan, which continues to this day.
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