Significance of Krishna Jayanti festival
Posted on: 02/Sep/2018 5:27:44 PM
The birthday of Lord Krishna is celebrated in a grand manner all over India. The festival has various other names - Sri Krishna Jayanthi, Gokulashtami, and Janmashtami.
Sr Krishna Jayanthi is celebrated on 2 different by the different sects of the Hindus in India.
Like most other Hindu festivals, Krishna Jayanthi also has a profound significance even in the present social lifestyle and the future.
Lord Krishna was born to Vasudeva and Devaki on a midnight period. So, a 24-hour fast is observed when people avoid eating and partake food only at the stroke of midnight.
The main chant or the mantra for this occasion which the ardent devotees of Lord Krishna repeat throughout is ‘Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya’.
Modes of celebration of Krishna Jayanthi
All the temples, especially dedicated to Lord Krishna, and the various Hindu spiritual organisations perform special poojas on this day. They sing the ‘kirtans’ or slogans praising Lord Krishna. Children in the house are dressed as Lord Krishna, Radha, and Gopis and sometimes taken on a procession. Also, the various episodes depicted in the life of Lord Krishna are enacted as plays or dance-dramas. In each episode, there is a moral and religious significance for the people to follow.
In his reincarnation as Lord Krishna in one of his 10 Avatars, Lord Vishnu has depicted the life of Sri Krishna to explain the great teachings given in the Upanishads. Vedas and Upanishads are the most prominent religious renderings which serve as guides to the way life should be lived.In his lifetime. Lord Krishna encountered a variety of challenges and hardships and had the courage to face them. Thus, he accepted the lie in its entirety or as it happened.
Lord Krishna was a cheerful soul the way he lived his life and he spread the spirit of cheer wherever he went.It was fully fun-oriented wirth music and dance of joy – in fact, even just be fore Lord Krishna was killed by a hunter’s arrow, he was playing the flute.
However, in the various sects of Hinduism, Lord Krishna is celebrated and worshipped on different aspects – his childhood which was full of adventures when he encountered demons and demonesses and killed them and had fun with his friends, his romantic life with Radha and other Gopis, or celebrate him as the person who delivered Bhagavad Gita, one of the 3 greatest epics in Hinduism, which teaches the morality and the significance of life.
The series of events in the war of Kurukshetra between the Kauravas and the Pandavas, where Lord Krishna guided Arjuna, the role of Karma or the fate is depicted in a strong way indicating the life should be lived performing the desired actions and each action will bring out its own effect.
Thus, Lord Krishna has guided the way how to live as applicable to the present society as well as the future. Life is a continuity. One should live it in a detached and neutral manner.
