Bhai Dooj Celebration

To do the service, sisters will organize an uncommon Puja Thali. Sisters get up promptly in the first part of the day to plan scrumptious dishes for their siblings on the favorable day of Bhai Dooj.

On the event of Bhai Dooj ( ভাইফোঁটার শুভেচ্ছা ), young ladies wear brilliant ensembles and enhance the puja thalis. The exertion taken for designing the thali will be remunerated by siblings with presents and endowments. On that day sisters contends each other to demonstrate their best in finishing thalis. Bhai Dooj is known by different names like 'Bhav-Bij' in Maharashtra, 'Bhai Phota' in West Bengal, 'Bhai Beej' in Gujarat. Other well known names of Bhai Dooj are Bhathru Dwithiya, Bhai-Tika, Bhatri Ditya and Yamadwitheya.

On the off chance that the sister is hitched, the sibling visits his sister upon the arrival of Bhai Dooj as a custom. The sibling needs to sit and enable his sister to complete the function. The Bhai Dooj puja is performed in a puja room and the sister adorns the thali with mithai, batshaas, roli and rice alongside coconut. The thali can be likewise enhanced with shaded grains, felt paper, blooms, publication paints, buds, leaves, petals, sequins and globules. Sister applies a tika and akshat on the temple of her sibling and performs arti on him. Sister will give desserts in the mouth of sibling and furthermore offer endowments to him. During this function, sister appeals to God for sibling's long life, wellbeing and bliss. Consequently the sibling favors his sister and gives her money or blessings.

There are different legends on Bhai Dooj. Bhai Dooj is praised as 'Yama Dwiteeya' in light of the fact that it is accepted that on this day, Yamaraj who is the Lord of Death and the guardian of Hell visited his sister Yami's home. During his visit to her home, she put a tika on his brow appealing to God for his thriving and security and to stamp this event we are observing Bhai Dooj. Another legend is that Lord Krishna went to his sister Subhadra in the wake of slaughtering Narakasura who invited Lord Krishna with light, blooms and sweet and applied a tika on his brow. Bhai Dooj celebration is additionally means the fondness of sister Sudarshana who console her sibling King Nandivadhan who was bothered when his sibling Mahavir, author of Jainism, achieved nirvana. From that time onwards ladies have been regarded during Bhai Dooj celebration.

Bhai Dooj is commended in practically all pieces of India, fundamentally in North India. Just contrast is that the celebration is known in various names in various pieces of India and in certain spots the traditions and customs likewise vary. Bhai Dooj is a festival to reinforce the bond among sisters and siblings. Bhai Dooj symbolizes the serene concurrence of every person to elevate solidarity and to empower agreeable public activity.