Krishna Janmashtami
This year janmashtami 2010 is on 2nd September 2010. This pious festival is celebrated wherever Indians reside all over the world. This wonderful festival of janmashtami is celebrated as a birthday of Hindu God Lord Krishna. Lord Krishna is also known as the prophet of God Vishnu Ji.
Janmashtami is also known as also known as Krishnashtami, Saatam Aatham ,Gokulashtam, Ashtami Rohini, Srikrishna Jayant, Sree Jayanthi or sometimes merely as Janmashtami. This ious festival of Janamashtami is observed Astam Tithi which is also known as the eighth day of Krishna Paksha during the month of Shraavana acording to the Hindu Calendar. Janmashtami Collection of Pictures, Wallpapers, Songs, Photos 2010, Janmashtami MP3 Song & Pictures 2010
On the day of Janmashtami people celebrate this festival with zest and zeal. On the occasion of janmashtami people go to temples and bow in front of lord Krishna. People make wishes and lord Krishna fulfills all the wishes of his followers. So many hymns are sung by his followers in his praise. Some people dance also.
For celebrating the birthday of their God Lord Krishna people play various plays like Mahabharata, Rasa Lila especially on the occasion of Janmashtami in the areas like Mathura and Varindava. There is one more ceremony that is fulfilled on this day and it is Dahi Handi. Dahi Handi is akind of mischief that is played by Govindas all over the world. For this mischief people hang Dahi Handi very high. This Dahi Handi is kept full of butter. Govindas make teams and try to break this Dahi Handi full of butter.
For this ceremony people pay heavy amount of money to Govindas as a prize. This huge amount of prize is given to only that particular team of Govindas which break it successfully. Many teams of Govindas try to break Dahi Handi. For making it interesting contest people hang it very high.
There is lot of religious significance of this in Hindu religion. A fast is observed a day before this festival of Janmashtami. When the clock strikes 12 so it is deemed that Lord Krishna has taken birth in the jail where his atrocious maternal uncle Kansa was keeping his parents in prison.
On Janmashtami when lord Krishna takes birth at 12’o’ clock in the midnight people preen him with tons of jewelry and new clothes are put on to him. But before this Lord Krishna is bathed with pious water. In addition to it many hymns are sung in the ecstasy of his birth. Moreover, he is worshipped by everyone after he is placed in a cradle.
After this his Aarti is done by his followers from the bottom of their heart. After Aarti which is a day break special prayer, fast is deemed to be completed.
On this pious day of janmashtami ladies draw the design of children’s footprints outside their houses with the help of rice paste. The direction of the footprints is kept towards the inside direction of the house that indicates the entry of Lord Krishna in their house as an infant.
This pious festival of Janmashtami is celebrated all over the world with lot of faith in Lord Krishna. So this time Janmashtami is coming on 2nd of September 2010. I hope Janmashtami 2010 will bring prosperity and love all over the world. Moreover, I request all the people of the world to do something more like planting trees on our mother earth. As this earth is our mother so keeping it neat and green is also our duty. So everyone lets shake hands together on the occasion of janmashtami 2010 and make a resolution of keeping our mother earth neat and green by planting more and more trees.
So this is the only one message that I want to spread all over the world on this occasion of Janmashtami. So that our million more generations get to see this pious festival of Janmashtami in future.
So It is my humble request to everyone around the world to send Janmashtami sms to your loved ones but kindly spread the message of keeping the earth neat and green also. If you do so today so many more generations will get to see this wonderful festival of Janmashtami. So everyone lets come and celebrate this janmashtami2010 in forests also and plant some trees.
