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Eid Festival: Traditions and Celebrations

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Eid Festival: Traditions and Celebrations of Muslim 2020 Eid Mubarak Eid-ul-Fitr is one of the most important festivals and dates in the Islamic calendar. It is steeped in years of religious history, ensuring    that over the years, the occasion has gathered and developed its own unique set of traditions and customs. Eid Mubarak  Eid is a time for celebration , for family, for giving. It is a significant date and one that many Muslims across the world celebrate every year. Eid-ul-Fitr is the occasion that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan and represents the end of the fast. Therefore, it should be no surprise that the date holds so much significance for Muslims. Although Eid is celebrated in a range of varying ways by people of different countries, cultures, and backgrounds, there are also a number of common rituals which link the tradition with the worldwide Muslim community as a whole. As the month of Ramadan begins to draw to a close, the minds of Muslims begin to look ahea

Jagannath Prabhu-Puri Rath Yatra 2020

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                   Jagannath Prabhu-Puri Rath Yatra 2020 R atha  Y atra of Lord Jagannath is world famous. This article talks about Ratha Yatra of Lord Jagannatha, its history, significance and so on as explained by Srila Prabhupada. Ratha Yatra (Festival of Chariots) is one of the world’s oldest religious festivals, originally celebrated in Jagannath Puri. By the mercy of Srila Prabhupada this festival is now being celebrated all over the world. In the summer of 1967, the city of San Francisco saw the Western world’s first Ratha Yatra. Many other swamis and yogis journeyed to the West in the past, but none of them had the vision of Srila Prabhupada: to establish the Krishna conscious culture of ancient India without watering it down. Srila Prabhupada introduced Lord Jagannatha to the Western world and also inaugurated the Ratha Yatra ceremony, in its original format. Jayananda dasa, one of Srila Prabhupada’s early disciples, took an active part in making it a success. For each of the

krishna janmashtami 2020

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                                                                          krishna janmashtami 2020 Krishna Janmashtami or Gokulashtami is the celebration of the birth of Lord Krishna. Krishna was the eighth avatar of Vishnu and Janmashtami is celebrated on the eighth day of the Shravana month, which usually falls in August. Janmashtami is a Hindu festival predominantly celebrated in Northern India. The festival of Janmanshtami is followed by the celebration of Nandotsav. Lord Krishna plays a very important role in the Mahabharata. Krishna Janmashtami – Legend Krishna was the son of Vasudev and Devaki, he was their eighth son. He was born in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, which was the ruling capital of Yadavas. Devaki’s brother, King Kansa had imprisoned his father and took over the throne. There was a prophecy that he will be killed by the eighth child of Devaki. Afraid of the same, he killed the six children of Devaki and the seventh was a miscarriage, he locked them both in a prison cell,