Makar Sankranti
Makar Sankranti is a very auspicious day in Hindu customs. Throughout India, people celebrate this festival with great enthusiasm and fervor. Devotees visit temples early in the morning after a ritual bath, offering Dan Punya and praying to God asking for blessings for the whole family. The festival of Makar Sankranti is celebrated in different names in different parts of the country. In south India, it is known as ‘Pongal’ ( Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh), In Punjab and Haryana it is called ‘Lohri’, however, Lohri is celebrated before the day of Sankranti, Magh Bihu in Assam and in UP and Bihar, known as Khichdi.
Why Makar Sankranti Celebrated?
Reason to celebrate Makar Sankranti
The famous kite flying festival takes place in Gujarat where large families get on to the terrace of their respective houses to compete in flying kites with relatives and neighbors.
-An Important Hindu Festival
Just like many other Hindu festivals, this is also an important festival for Hindus to celebrate their harvest with festivities and colorful decorations.
What is unique about this festival is that, while all the other festivals follow the lunar calendar for calculating the precise date of every festival, this is the only festival that follows the solar calendar, and hence it falls on the same date almost every year.
At this festival, people buy new clothes, eat special preparations at home and visit temples. Special preparation of sesame and jaggery is combined to make special laddoos that make the occasion truly special.
The purpose of eating these laddoos is that sesame contains oil-based constituents in every grain of sesame. During the cold season, skin gets dry and flaky and requires moisture for keeping it smooth and protected. So this moisturizing benefit is got from eating sesame laddoos, which is an essential part of a festive day.
-The Sun God Enters a Different Zodiac Sign
On the auspicious day of Sankranti, the sun transits to the tropic of Capricorn from the tropic of cancer. It is believed that Capricorn is the zodiac sign of Saturn. Saturn as we all know is the Sun lord’s son. So, in other words, it simply means that the sun lord comes down to his son’s place to stay with him. Thus, it signifies forgetting old bitterness and quarrels in the past, leaving behind our well-framed egos, and stepping into a beautiful world of love and concern.
Establishing cordial relationships with the people we love, ending any kind of bitterness or grudges we hold, and also creating a happy frame for us and for the people around us truly signifies why we should celebrate this festival.
-Harvest Season for Farmers
The Indian farmer is one big community in India that toils in lands, cultivating crops round the year without taking any breaks for relaxation.
They do not get leaves on the weekends, they do not spend the weekends thronging malls and complexes, and instead, they work hard in the fields to produce the staple food that we eat daily through our meals.
It is because of the farmers that we are able to eat a sufficient meal and fill our stomachs. This festival in a big manner is a big tribute to the Indian farmer and a celebration of his hard work.
After a hard-working year in the field, it is time when farmers turn happy with the produces they obtain in their fields and later celebrate this harvest season in the form of joy and get together on Makar Sankranti festival.
-Women consider the day sacred to pray God for the longevity of their husbands’ lives
Women especially in the northern regions of India, compulsorily take this holy dip for the long lives of their husbands. Beginning with Makar Sankranti, the days get longer, and nights get shorter.
This also marks a coincidence for wives to seek blessings for their husbands. So, celebrating this festival on this auspicious day is very important. The highly significant Kumbh Mela celebrations begin from this day onwards.
-The onset of the Auspicious Uttarayan Period
Beginning from the day of Makar Sankranti, it is believed that a person who passes away during the six months starting from the festival day, that is during the period of Uttarayan reaches heaven directly and does not have a re-birth again.
These beliefs are very important aspects of Hindu mythology and it is popularly known that during Mahabharata, Bhishma actually waited for the Uttarayan period to commence to set himself free and left this world.
Happy Makar Sankranti Wishes
Sankranti, the festival of the sun is here! May it bring you greater knowledge and wisdom and light up your life for the entire new year. Happy Makar Sankranti!
Just like your kites, this Makar Sankranti, may you soar high with success. Happy Uttarayan! Merry Uttarayan!
The sun signifies knowledge, spiritual light, and wisdom. Makar Sankranti signifies that we should turn away from the darkness of delusion in which we live, and begin to joyously let the light within us shine brighter and brighter. We should gradually begin to grow in purity, wisdom, and knowledge, even as the sun does from this day.
May it bring you greater knowledge and wisdom and light up your life for the entire new year. Happy Makar Sankranti!
Best wishes for a happy and prosperous Makar Sankranti! Hope the Sun God fulfills all your wishes on this auspicious occasion.
I hope you are blessed with peace, prosperity, and good harvest this Makar Sankranti.
Let this festive season bring with it endless happiness and joy. Happy Makar Sankranti!
May this Makar Sankranti takes away all your sadness and lighten your life with warmth, joy, happiness, and love forever!
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May your days be filled with joy, weeks of happiness, months filled with prosperity, and years of celebrations are sent your way.
May God bless you and your family on the auspicious occasion of Makar Sankranti
The sun rises with hope in this Makar Sankranti, kites fly enthusiastically in the sky, and the crops are ready to be harvested, all signifying hope, joy, and abundance. Happy Sankranti.
Best wishes for a happy and prosperous Makar Sankranti! Hope the Sun God fulfills all your wishes on this auspicious occasion.
May your life be filled with the sweetness of til and good. Wishing you and your family a very happy Makar Sankranti!
I wish to bless you with a good harvest, peace, and prosperity, this Makar Sankranti! Happy Sankranti Makar.
I hope this harvest season brings you prosperity and happiness. Have a joyous Makar Sankranti!
It’s time to enjoy the first festival of the year. Wishing you a prosperous and delightful Makar Sankranti!
May this festival fill your life with lots of energy and enthusiasm, and help you get all the happiness and prosperity. Happy Makar Sankranti to all!
May the God of the Sun bring sunshine and happiness to fill your life and home. Happy Sankranti Makar!
May your life be blessed with love, happiness, and wealth. Happy Makar Sankranti!
Hope this festive season brings joy to you and your loved ones; and may all your wishes come true this year. Happy Makar Sankranti!
May passion, happiness, and success fill your life. Happy Sankranti Makar!
Will all of us on this Makar Sankranti be blessed with joy and prosperity, Wish a Peaceful Uttarayan to you and your loved ones
Wish you and your family members a very happy Makar Sankranti!
This year, I hope Makar Sankranti’s rising sun fills your life with happy moments. Wishing a very happy Makar Sankranti to you!
We wish you and your family a beautiful Makar Sankranti.
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