Beautiful Christmas festival 2016

Only four days left for great festival of the year Merry Christmas or 25th December. It is a great festival of Christians and celebrated by every people all across the world. It falls every year on 25th December, on this day people  do lots of preparations and decorations of church, house, shop etc before the event celebration start.

On this special day there is a big tradition of distributing gifts to their nearest and dearest ones, and specially children wait for this day when Santa comes and give the gift's. Every one enjoy this Christmas festival by singing, dancing, party and by giving Christmas cards etc. Women wears the white saree with different design's and children wears the white Gown or new clothes on this day and visit church to pray. Christians celebrates this festival on the birth anniversary of Jesus Christ. 

Dhanu Sankranti specialty from Odisha.

Dhanu Sankrati is an most important day in Hindu calender and on that day Lord Sun enters into the Dhanu Rashi. In 2016 , Dhanu sankrati will be held on december 2016. This is the beginning of Dhanu Masha. In odisha it is a great festival, most people offer special puja and paryer to Lord Jagannath on this day. On this day Lord Jagannath wear the New clothes and special sweets Dhanumua offer to our Lord Jagannth.

Dhanu Mua

In many places of India,people worshiped to Lord Surya(Sun God) and take dip in holy rivers.

In odisha, a special delicious sweet made of unboiled rice flakes known as Dhanumuan which prepared on that day. The famous Dhanu yatra held on Dhanu Sankrati at Baragarh town and it held for ten to eleven days.  

Bhagavad Geeta Jayanthi in 2016

"Gita Jayanti" is an annual celebration which dedicated to the day when Lord "Krishna" give his philosophical teachings  to prince Arjun on the first day battle of Kurukshetra. When prince Arjuna did not want to fight against his cousins, the Kauravas in the battle field. On that time Lord Krishna explain the truth of real life and the philosophy of Karma and Dharma to prince Arjun. That's way giving birth to one of the world's greatest scriptures, the Gita.

At the temples of ISKON gita Jayanti is celebrated with special offer to Lord Krishna. 

Gita Jayanti