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Hare Krishna, Wishing You A Happy Janmashtami Mahotsav 2022! by bucktobills: 3:12pm On Aug 18, 2022
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First of all, wish you all a very Happy Janmashtami!

Are you also eagerly waiting for Janmashtami?
Do you know when Janmashtami will be celebrated in 2022 as well as when it is celebrated every year?
Do you know the secret to celebrate Janmashtami, why do we celebrate?
Do you also keep fast on the festival of Janmashtami?

Do you take part in the competitions held during the festival of Janmashtami?
The Tale behind celebrating Hare Krishna Janmashtami!
Krishna Janmashtami,  ''Event of the birth of Krishna'', also recognized surely as Janmashtami or Gokulashtami, is an annual Hindu competition that celebrates the beginning of Krishna, the 8th avatar of Vishnu. in line with the Hindu lunisolar calendar, it is observed at the eighth tithi (Ashtami) of the Krishna Paksha (darkish fortnight) in Bhadrapada Masa. This overlaps with August or September of the Gregorian calendar.
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It's miles a critical festival, specifically inside the Vaishnavism culture of Hinduism. Dance-drama enactments of the life of Krishna according to the Bhagavata Purana (along with Rasa Lila or Krishna Lila), devotional making a song thru the midnight when Krishna becomes born, fasting (Upavasa), a nighttime vigil (Ratri Jagaran), and a competition (Mahotsav) on the day after today are part of the Janmashtami celebrations. it's miles celebrated in particular in Mathura and Vrindavan, along with fundamental Vaishnava and non-sectarian groups discovered in Manipur, Assam, West Bengal, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, and all the other states of India.

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When Janmashtami is celebrated?
Janmashtami is a Hindu pageant celebrating the beginning (Janma) of the God Krishna on the eighth (Ashtami) day of the dark fortnight of the month of Bhadrapada (August–September). The number eight has another importance in the Krishna legend in that he's the 8th child of his mom, Devaki.
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The event is located specifically in Mathura and Vrindavan (Brindaban), the scenes of Krishna’s childhood and early kids. On a preceding day, devotees maintain a vigil and fast till nighttime, the conventional hour of his beginning. Then the idol of Krishna is bathed in water and milk, dressed in new clothes, and worshipped.


Temples and family shrines are decorated with leaves and flora; sweetmeats are first provided to the god and then dispensed as Prasada (the god’s leftovers, which convey his choice) to all the participants of the household. The devotees of Krishna commemorate the occasions of his delivery via making ready intricate representations of Mathura, where he turned into born, the Yamuna River, over which he become transported to protection, and Gokul (ancient Vraja), the scene of his adolescence, the usage of small photos of the god, the opposite individuals, and the animals and birds of the woodland.

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Pots of milk are hung from tall poles inside the streets, and men shape human pyramids to attain and wreck the pots—that is in imitation of Krishna’s adolescence play with the cowherd boys after they stole the curds spent time of reach via their mothers. The competition is likewise a time for organization singing and dancing.

Krishna Janmashtami is followed by using the pageant Nandotsava, which celebrates the event when Nanda allotted items to the community in honor of the start.

[img]The birth story of Shri Krishna![/img]
Krishna became born in a place of chaos. It changed into a time when persecution became rampant, freedoms were denied, evil was anywhere, and when there was a danger to his lifestyle via his uncle King Kansa. At once following the birth at Mathura, his father Vasudeva Anakadundubhi took Krishna across the Yamuna, to foster parents in Gokula, named Nanda and Yashoda who had been Vasudeva's brother and sister-in-regulation. with Krishna, an avatar of serpent Shesha Balram turned into also incarnated on the earth as Krishna's older brother who became the son of Rohini, Vasudeva's first spouse.
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