Janmashtami 2025: Lord Krishna’s birthday is going to be celebrated on 16 August across the country. This day is one of the major special fasting festivals of the country. In the major Krishna temples of the country, the festival of Janmashtami is celebrated with great enthusiasm. Although there are many traditions to Janmashtami, no one is aware of some traditions correctly.
Lord Krishna’s birthday celebrates the Ashtami date of Krishna Paksha of Bhadrapada month, on this occasion, cucumber is important. The stalk cucumber is kept in the form of worship on Janmashtami, while it is to the birth of Lord Krishna.
Here on the occasion of Janmashtami, stalk cucumbers are important. According to tradition, Shri Krishna is born with this cucumber with stalks. According to belief, when the child is born, the baby’s umbilical cord is cut and separated from the mother’s womb. God to cucumber Sri Krishna The umbilical cord is considered and cutting the cucumber stalk with cucumber and separating it, it is celebrated as a ritual to separate Shri Krishna from Maa Devaki. This process of cutting the stalk cucumbers here is called the process of placenta piercing. The meaning of cutting cucumber is associated with the process of birth. Devotees perform this process reverently.
Janmashtami This tradition of cutting cucumbers is done at 12 o’clock in the night, connecting with the birthday of Lord Krishna. Here, pulp is extracted from cucumbers to install the idol of Lord Krishna in some places. Later cucumber is opened at midnight, so that the birth of God is indicated by the womb of Goddess Devaki.
According to this process, Bal Gopal was born at 12 o’clock on the night of Shri Krishna Janmashtami, then at the same time, cut the cucumber stalk with a coin and separate the happiness of Bal Gopal’s birth. After this, make this auspicious occasion even more sacred by playing conch shell. After this, you should worship Bal Gopal duly. It is difficult to find a stalk cucumber, so many people cut the cucumber from the middle and make Shri Krishna born. After the birth of Shri Krishna, many people make Bal Gopal sit on the open and swing them and also affect them with love. Then they also offer them to enjoy their choice. On this day, offer Bal Gopal in Bhog along with registration and charanamrit as well as cucumber.
There are many traditions to Janmashtami which devotees are followed with devotion.
