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Year: 2022
JanuaryHAPPY SANKRANTI
January month has its own significance in each calendar year. The first day of the month is celebrated an New year day. Everyone exchanges greetings for a happy and prosperous year ahead. In India, Makara Sankranti is the most revered festival of this month. It is celebrated when the Sun enters Makara Rasi launching the auspicious period of Uttarayana Punyakala (the beginning of the Sun's movement towards North). The festival is observed with immense devotion and fervor. The Sun God and Goddess Dhaariya Lakshmi are worshipped during
these days.
Sankranti in three day festival. The first day is Bhogi. People discard old and derelict things and buy new items, People light bon fires early in the morning. The fire denotes that the material attachment sacrificed to attain the knowledge of spiritual wisdom. It gives a new vigor and enthusiasm for a happy future. The second day is Sankranti. The festival is dedicated to the Sun God. The Sun is the source for growing crops and agricultural products. He is the root cause of rains which provide water source for our living. So, the farmers offer grains, paddy, vegetables, fruits, sugarcane etc., to the Sun God to show their gratitude. Jaggery rice (sweet Pongal) is prepared and offered God. The third day is Kanuma. It is also an important festival for farmers. They consider cattle as a symbol of wealth and prosperity. Special pujas are performed to the cattle. Cow worship is done by all the households. In fact in Tamil Nadu, it is called Mattupongal (Pongal festival for bovines).
In Tirumala, on Sankranti day, the Presiding Deity is adorned with new clothes and fragrant flowers. On the Kanuma festival day, the processional deity of Sri Malayappa Swary along with Sri Krishna Swamy participates in Paruveta Utsavam. The Lord as Panchayudha murthi with all His five weapons participates in the mock wild hunt. It is not out of place to mention about "Navaneetha Seva" on the occasion of Gokulastami started by TTD in a grand way. Recently TTD performed "Go-sammelan programme" in Tirupati. The main intention of this programme is to encourage 'Go Adharita Vyavasayam' (Organic farming) and recognizing the significance of cow and its unique status in the spiritual as well as the material world.
May this Sankranthi bring about new light of unrelenting happiness and prosperity among
the lives of all devotees by the grace of Lord Venkateswara.
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