What is Ugadi and what are its significances?
Posted on: 29/Mar/2017 9:20:50 AM
The entire world celebrates New Year on 31st December and 1st January of every year. However, this does not apply to the lunisolar Hindu calendar to which the new year falls in March or April month. This is what we call Ugadi.
Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh are the two primary states that celebrate New Year on these months. And Ugadi is celebrated in other names in different parts of Indian sub-continent
What is the significance of Ugadi festival?
Ugadi has its history dated behind to the time of lord Brahma, the creator of the universe. He created a range of beautiful creations in the world and all the life forms living on it at present.
Ugadi is a day celebrated in reverence to this day of creation on which Lord Brahma started all his creations. In addition to being a New Year, Ugadi is also the beginning of a new astronomical cycle.
The celebrations and prayers offered to the lord on this day will give complete enjoyment and contentment to the devotees. They leave all their past sorrows and bad memories to the lord and begin a fresh start with positive expectations on Ugadi.
Ugadi is also the first day of spring season to start. Spring is the first of all seasons where all plants, leaves and shoots start growing. Ugadi is on the whole a day of fresh start and successful beginning.
