Vat Savitri is also called Badh Saanyat (बड़ सांयत), this festival is celebrated on Jyestha Vadi Amavasya, and banyan tree (बरगद का पेड़) is worshiped for long and healthy life of one’s husband (not boyfriend).
This vrat and puja is for married women. And it is suggested to Savitri by lord Shiva himself. This day married women worship banyan tree; if they don’t find this tree nearby they can worship its stem and leaves which they can buy from some plant-nursery; even if stem and leaves aren’t available, they can draw a banyan tree on a paper, after hanging it on a wall, they can worship it. It is emotions (faith) that is necessary.
For puja, light a diya beside it, offer Haldi (Turmeric) Ki Mala, and make seven rounds around it on clockwise direction. In case you have banyan tree on a wall, just rotate at your place seven rounds in clockwise direction. Observing vrat this day, will give women additional benefit, and this festival shouldn’t be taken lightly if your love your husband.
Vat Savitri Vrat Katha
There was a king he had no child, so he called all the astrologers and asked them to tell him about his future child. After separate calculation they unanimously agreed that king would have just a daugher and her husband would die after one year of marriage. King was unhappy but accepted his fate.
After a year his wife deliverd a baby girl, and it was named Savitri. When Savitri became adult, king told her everything including her future husband would die after one year of marriage. She was unhappy too. King suggested her to find her husband herself, she agreed.
Savitri fell in love with a boy Satyavan, a woodcutter, who used to live with his blind parents in a jungle. They got married. Second day after marriage she started worshiping lord Shiva intensely, when a year was about to complete, Shiva appeared in front of her, and suggest her to do vrat and puja of banyan tree on Jyestha Vadi Amavasya, she did that, but still insecure about the life of her husband.
When one year finished, Satyavan felt a headache and lost his life. Savitri saw Dharmraj standing beside, he had captured Satyavan soul. When Dharmraj was leaving the place, Savitri followed; miles passed Savitri kept on following. At last Dharmraj asked her to take three Boons — #) first, she asked for getting Satyavan parents’ eyesight, it was granted; #) second, she she asked for getting lost kingdom of Satyavan parents, it was granted; #) third, she asked for getting a child, it was granted. But as soon as, Dharmraj granted the third Boon, Satyavan got alive.
Dharmraj mind couldn’t work for third Boon that’s why he granted so easily in a split second without thinking anything. It was the impact of Savitri vrat and fast, that hanged Dharmraj mind for some time. Also Savitri had the power of Shiva working for her, but her efforts weren't any lesser.
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