6 Karwa Chauth Fasting Rules To Follow

In India, Hindu married women (mostly from Northern India) perform and celebrate Karwa Chauth. This festival will be celebrated on October 13 this year. This festival celebrates the sacred bond of love and marriage. Married women perform a full-day fast in prayer for their husband’s health, wealth, and long life. On this day women keep 'Nirjala' (without water) fast from sunrise to the moonrise and ask for success, well-being, and happiness for their life partners. The day begins early with the women having sargi (food generally prepared by their mothers-in-law) before sunrise because they are not supposed to consume anything after that. Here are the main fasting rules to follow during Karwa Chauth:-

1. Married women are supposed to get up early in the morning, have a full bath and put on fresh and new clothes, and deck up on this auspicious day like a new bride with all 16 shringar. They also have to take a Sankalp which is, that they must keep the fast in order to safeguard her husband's well-being and the family's health.

2. Then women are supposed to worship Goddess Parvati as she is believed to be the Akhand Saubhagyavati, which is why women worship her.

3. Before sunrise married women are supposed to eat from the sargi thali, which basically consists of milk, vermicelli, fruits, dry fruits, any juice, puri, and sabzi which has to be made by their mothers-in-law. The food must be cooked without garlic and onion.

4. Women observe a strict fast during Karwa Chauth from sunrise to moonrise. During the vrat, they don't even drink water the entire day.

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5. Women who are fasting on this day offer sweets, flowers, fruits, and sindoor to the Goddess and light up ghee diyas and dhoop (incense).

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6. After that they read the Karwa Chauth vrat katha. Women see their husbands through a sieve and pray for their long lives at the first puja of Karwa Chauth, which is held in the evening, and then the husbands help break their fast by giving their wives water during the second puja, which is performed at the time of moonrise.

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