Sheetala Ashtami 2022 Date: Time, Puja Vidhi, Samagri, And Significance

Sheetala Ashtami, also known as Basoda in some places, is an important Hindu festival celebrated to keep children away from diseases and for their well-being. This year Sheetala Ashtami is falling on Friday, March 25. The tradition of celebrating this festival has been going on for years and is considered very important. On this day devotees offer stale food to Mata Sheetla and they themselves eat stale food as prasad.

Sheetala Ashtami 2022 Date & Time

Sheetala Ashtami will be celebrated on Friday, March 25 this year. Ashtami Tithi will start from 12:09 AM on 25 March and will continue till 10:04 PM on March 25.

The auspicious time for Sheetala Mata’s Puja will be from 06:20 AM to 06:35 AM, March 25.

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Significance

The way to worship Bhagwati Sheetala is unique. On the day before Ashtami, different dishes are prepared to offer them as food. People usually don’t light the stove on the day of Ashtami, and they enjoy stale food as a form of prasad.

This is because from now on, it is getting closer to summer and we should avoid eating stale food.

After worshipping Sheetala Mata, people wash their eyes with the water. This tradition is a sign to take care of their eyes in summer.

After worshiping Mata Sheetala, people apply turmeric tilak. They also make swastikas with turmeric near the main gates of their houses for happiness, peace, and good wishes.

Turmeric’s yellow color can help to make people feel positive. Vastu defects in a building can be fixed with the help of this spice.

Puja Vidhi

• Get up in the morning and take bath after mixing Gangajal in the water.
• Wear orange clothes.
• Decorate two plates for worship.
• Place curd, roti, pua, millet, salt pare, mathri and sweet rice made on the day of Satami in a plate.
• Make a lamp of flour in another plate.
• Keep roli, clothes intact, coin and mehndi and keep a lotus filled with cold water.
• After worshiping Sheetla Mata in the temple of the house, keep the lamp without lighting it and offer the bhog kept in the plate.
• Offer water to the Neem tree.