Raksha Bandhan - Saubhagya Purnima

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Namaste.

 

Here are two quotes about 'Saubhagya Purnima' in Vraja Lila taken from

Rasika literature.

 

Paurnamasi: This is a very appropriate request,

for today is the auspicious day known as Saubhagya Purnima.

 

A famous verse says:

 

prasUnair adbhutaih kAntA

kantena zrAvaNI-dine

prasAdhitA prasiddhena

saubhAgyena vivardhate

 

"A woman decorated by her lover with many wonderful flowers on the

full-moon day of the month of Shravan attains great good fortune."

 

(Vidagdha Madhava 7.4)

 

pUrNAzIH pUrNimAsAv anavahitatayA yA tvayAsyai vitIrNA

vaSTi tvAm eva tanvann akhila-madhurimotsekam asyAM mukundaH

diSTyA parvodagAt te svayam abhisaraNe cittam Adhatsva vatse

yuktyApy uktA mayeti dyumaNi-sakha-sutA prAhiNod eva citrAm

 

"The full moon night on which all desires are fulfilled,

You mistakenly gave to this other girl, dear Radha.

Mukunda wants to spend this night with you alone,

Increasing the flow of sweetness.

Fortunately, the day is here, dear.

Give your heart to meeting him yourself."

 

Though I argued reasonably thus,

Radha, daughter of the Sun's friend,

Still sent Chitra to him in the end.

 

(UN 4.38; Nitai das's translation)

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Jaya Sri Radhey!

 

Divine_Lovers, "dr. jaya" <pyari_h> wrote:

 

 

> Besides the above festivals in Shravana, there is yet another

> religious ceremony observed by a Hindu community, viz., the Konkani

> speaking Saraswats and Gaud Saraswat Brahmins of the South. This

> ceremony is called the 'Chudi' Puja performed by Saubhagya married

> ladies. Every Friday and Sundays married ladies worship the Tulsi

> plant (Ocimum Sanctum) by offering the 'chudis' or tiny bouquets of

> flowers, vermillion and other puja items. It is picturesque to see

the

> sacred Tulsi plant bedecked with pretty multicoloured tied tiny

> bouquets. Later the 'chudis' are offered to elderly married ladies

and

> their blessings sought, Every women takes pride in the month of

Shravan

> to perform the puja and fast.

>

> Despite the rejoicings and gaiety, thanks to the string of festivals

> spread over this month is rent with the air of solemnity. Be it a

> woman performing pujas and observing fasts, or a man changing his

> sacred thread on the Shravani or Povte Purnima day of Shravan, all

> pray alike that they may be enabled to happily participate in the

> Shravan ceremonies every year.