Significance & Spiritual Meaning
Spiritual philosophy, inner meaning and eternal virtues
Significance & Spiritual Meaning
This is the new moon of Vat Savitri, the fast of married women for their husbands.
Spiritual philosophy, inner meaning and eternal virtues
Women fast, tie a thread around the banyan tree and hear the story of Savitri, who brought her husband Satyavan back from Yama.
Key Rituals & Observance
Step-by-step sacred rituals and worship practices
- 1Step 1
A fast and the worship of the banyan tree.
- 2Step 2
A thread tied seven times around the tree.
- 3Step 3
The Savitri Satyavan katha.
Sacred Deity & Powerful Mantras
The Divine Mother • Vedic and Puranic chants for peace and blessings
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The Divine Mother · Mantra
ॐ दुं दुर्गायै नमः ॥
Om Dum Durgayai Namah
Meaning
Salutations to The Divine Mother.
108 JapaSacred Mantra
Fasting & Parana Guidelines
✓Keep the fast from sunrise, with water, fruit or milk only if the fast is not strict.
✓Avoid grain, onion, garlic and salt in the strict form of the fast.
✓Break the fast at the time the vrat directs, after the worship.