Seema Kumari

New Delhi: ‘Vat Savitri Vrat’ (Vat Savitri Vrat 2023) is observed every year on the new moon day of the month of Jyestha. This year, the Vat Savitri fast will be observed on May 19. On this day, women fast for the long life of their husbands by remaining hungry and thirsty. On this day, a fast is observed for uninterrupted good fortune and there is a Banyan Tree worship ritual.

According to the scriptures, this fast is very difficult like the ‘Karwachauth’ fast. The banyan Tree is worshiped and stories are heard and read. On this day, during the Puja, the Puja plate must be fully prepared. Worship material is said to play a very important role during banyan tree worship. Let us know the importance of worshiping banyan tree and worship material in Vat Savitri fast.

According to religious texts, Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh, all three deities reside in Vat i.e. Banyan tree. Worshiping the banyan tree is said to bring blessings from the three gods and goddesses. That is why the banyan tree has a special importance. It is believed that on this day women worship and fast for the long life of their husbands. Say that the banyan tree is the only tree of its kind, so it lives 300 years, that is, its age is the longest.

It is believed that when Yamraj took Satyavan’s life. Then Satyavan’s wife made her husband lie down under the banyan tree and worshiped sitting there. Pleased with the worship of Satyavan’s wife, her husband’s life returned on the new moon day of the month of Jyestha. Since then there is a law of fasting and worship of Vat Savitri.

According to astrologers, before worshiping the banyan tree, prepare your worship plate. Explain that during this time rice (untouched), makeup items, mango, litchi, seasonal fruits, sweets or any homemade dessert, batasa, molly, roli, raw string, red cloth, coconut, perfume, betel leaves, vermilion, durba Grass, supari, pankha (hand fan), water etc are required.