Hanuman Jayanti Festival in Varanasi

An important Hindu festival, Hanuman Jayanti is celebrated with great pomp and devotion in Varanasi. This festival falls on Chaitra Shukla Purnima, the full moon day of March-April. Here, the birthday celebration is held at the famous Sankat Mochan Temple for a five-day period along with an equally famous classical & devotional music festival, participated by reputed maestros who alight here from different parts of the country. Sankat Mochan Music Festival is now in its 88th year and continues to attract huge crowds of devotees and culturally aware people from different corners of the country. In 2009, Pandit Jasraj and Pandit Birju Maharaj participated in this celebration. This temple is situated in the southern part of Varanasi. As per legend and ancient Hindu scriptures, Hanuman was totally devoted to Lord Rama, for which people worship him to this day. He symbolizes strength, energy, devotion, knowledge, bravery, divine power, intelligence, selfless spirit and is worshipped as a divine entity. Hanuman is the 11th incarnation (avatar) of Rudra or Lord Shiva. He devoted his entire life to Lord Rama and

Mata Sita. Hanuman is worshipped by his devotees to be blessed with power, success and fame. Some people repeatedly chant the Hanuman Chalisa to get over their day-to-day difficulties and emerge victorious. It is believed that anyone who reads the Hanuman Chalisa can conquer all the evils of his world and restore some mental turmoil with peace.

Significance of Hanuman Jayanti lies in celebrating the selfless achievements and positive deeds of the epitome of devotion – Lord Hanuman; and getting inspired to soak in the virtues to uplift oneself and society as a whole. Lord Hanuman happens to be symbol of harmonious and positive co-existence of humans with Mother Nature. The Hanuman Jayanti Festival is a show of the coexistence of Nature and man--Lord Hanuman, the most incredible creature in Nature and in its many forms--human beings with monkeys, or members of the Vanara community. This celebration means a lot, particularly to bachelors, wrestlers and bodybuilders. Lord Hanuman is worshipped especially for his great devotion to Lord Rama, apart from his great strength, energy and magical powers.

Sankat Mochan Temple, the venue where Hanuman Jayanti is celebrated with religious fervor, is named so as it is believed by the Hindus that worshipping Lord Hanuman here help them get rid of their problems. During Sankat Mochan Festival, a special religious & cultural parade or Shobha Yatra is carried out from the Durga Temple to the Sankat Mochan Temple. Devotees flock to the temple on this occasion, apply vermilion on their foreheads and distribute laddoos as prasad to other devotees and to the poor. Devotees of Lord Hanuman fast for the whole day to purify themselves and do penance in the hope of getting the Lord's blessing.

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