Shubh Rakhi Raksha Bandhan, also widely known as Rakhi and Rakhi Purnima, is a Hindu festival that celebrates the love and duty between brothers and sisters. The festival is also popularly used to celebrate any brother-sister like loving protective relationship between men and women who are blood-relatives or very close friends. Raksha Bandhan is one of India’s largest festivals and is mainly celebrated by Hindus, Jains, and also many Sikhs. Rakhi is followed in many other parts of the world such as America, Canada, UK, Australia, Fiji, Mauritius, where many Indian/Hindu immigrants reside. In 2014, Rakhi is being celebrated on August 10th. The main story being from the epic Mahabharata that concerns Krishna and Draupadi, the wife of the Pandavas where she had torn a strip of thread/fabric off her sari and tied it around Krishna’s finger to stop the flow of blood. Krishna was so touched by her action that He found himself bound to her by love. He promised to repay the debt and then spent the next 25 years showing devotion. Draupadi, in spite of being married to 5 great warriors and being a daughter of a powerful monarch, trusted and depended wholly on Krishna. There is also much evidence of Raksha Bandhan during the medieval era, around the 15th century, there were many wars between the Rajputs and Muslim invaders.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 14:16:38 +0000
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