According to the Hindu calendar, the festival of Basant Panchami is celebrated every year on the fifth day of Shukla Paksha of Magha month. Goddess Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge, wisdom, and speech is worshiped on this day. According to the religious scriptures, Maa Saraswati was born on the day of Basant Panchami.
Basant Panchami 2022 Date
Basant Panchami will be observed this time on 5th February, Saturday. According to religious beliefs, worshiping Goddess Saraswati on the day of Basant Panchami brings blessings of wisdom and knowledge.
Basant Panchami Story
According to legend, when Ravana kidnapped Sita, and she threw her jewelry on the earth, so that Rama could know about her abduction route. Through each of those ornaments, Rama started searching for Sita. During the same search, Rama reached Dandakaranya, where he met Shabari. It is said that that day was the day of Basant Panchami or Vasant Panchami, so even today Vasant Utsav is celebrated in the temple of Shabri Mata at these places.
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Significance
Although this entire month of Magh is encouraging, the festival of Vasant Panchami affects Indian life in many ways. Since ancient times, it is considered to be the birthday of Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge and arts. The educationists who love India and Indianness worship Maa Saraswati on this day and pray to her to become more knowledgeable. What about the artists? The importance that soldiers have for their weapons and Vijayadashami, for scholars with their books and Vyasa Purnima, for merchants with their scales, weights, books, and Diwali, the same importance for artists as Vasant Panchami. Whether they are poets or writers, singers or instrumentalists, playwrights or dancers, everyone starts the day with the worship of their instruments and the worship of Maa Saraswati.
Shubh Muhurat
This year the festival of Basant Panchami will be celebrated on Saturday 05 February 2022. The Panchami Tithi will start from 05 February, Saturday, 03:48 am and will end on Sunday, February 06 at 03:46 am. In Uday Tithi, Panchami Tithi is falling on 05 February, so Basant Panchami will be celebrated on this day.
Puja Vidhi
- On the day of Basant Panchami, wake up early in the morning and after retiring from the bath, etc., offer prayers to Mother Saraswati.
- Decorate the idol or idol of Maa Saraswati with yellow clothes and offer yellow flowers to her.
- It is believed that the spring season begins from this day, so the surroundings appear decorated with yellow flowers.
- Offer role, sandalwood, turmeric, saffron, sandalwood, yellow or white flowers, yellow sweets, and akshat to Saraswati Mata.
- Worship with reverence by placing musical instruments and books at the place of worship.
- Worship Maa Saraswati and offer prasad after performing aarti.
- After worship, offer the blog to everyone and take it yourself.
Samagari
Yellow and white things have special significance in Maa Saraswati Puja. In the worship of Goddess Saraswati, white sesame laddus, sugarcane or its juice, ripe jaggery, honey, white sandalwood, white flowers, white or yellow clothes, white ornaments, ginger, radish, sugar, white rice intact, modak, Pishtaka of Christ, ripe banana pods, coconut, coconut water, quince, Badrifal, Ritukalobhdav flower fruit, etc. should be there.
