Chhath 2025: Rising sword of Surya worship, 36 Ghante's Nirjala Vrat -chhath the great fist of solar work of your 36 hotels fist

By Abhishek Sharma Edited by: Abhishek Sharma Updated: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 23:59 (IST) The grand festival of Suryopasna begins today. It will last for four days, during which devotees will observe a waterless fast of 36 hours. During this period they will not take any kind of food or water. Devotees will worship Sun God and seek blessings from him. This great festival is a symbol of reverence and devotion. Will vow to fast without water for 36 hours after eating rice with bottle gourd and gram dal. Jagran Correspondent, Varanasi. Dala Shashthi, the folk festival of four-day worship of Lord Surya, the direct deity of the mundane world and the source of energy of the entire universe, will begin with Nahay-Khay on Saturday. By fasting with complete purity throughout the day, the fasting women will make puja prasad and in the evening, after eating gourd, rice, gram dal, ghee, rock salt and roti, they will take a vow of waterless fasting for 36 hours with Kharna the next day on Sunday. Remove Advertisement Only Read News On the third day of Monday, the main event of the Mahaparva is held on the banks of all the rivers and lakes with the offering of Arghya to the setting sun. A sea of ​​faith will gather at the ghats and the fast will end after Arghya is offered to the rising sun on Tuesday, the fourth day. Celebrated with complete purity and tough determination, this four-day festival of folk faith begins with Nahay-Khay on Kartik Shukla Chaturthi Tithi and remains celebrated for the next four days. Preparations are in full swing in the fasting families for this fast, which is observed with the hope of having a child and wishing for the welfare and long life of the child. After cleaning the entire house properly, the devotees and family members will go to the nearest river or lake on Saturday and bathe and make Prasad throughout the day for Chhath Puja with complete purity. There will be thekua, sweet puri, pakoda, khaja, anaras etc. In the evening, the fasting person will eat gourd vegetables without garlic and onions, rice, gram dal, ghee, rock salt, green coriander, chilli and roti and will sleep on the ground. With this, the joy of the four-day festival will spread throughout the atmosphere. It is believed that from this easily digestible food the body gets the purity and required amount of water to keep the dehydrated for 36 hours. This is how the four-day festival will be celebrated – Nahay Khay on Saturday 25 October, Kharna on Sunday 26 October, Arghya to the setting sun on Monday evening 27 October and after offering Arghya to the rising sun on Tuesday 28 October, the Mahavrat will be broken. Altars were built on the banks of Ganga, places of worship began to be. On Monday evening and Tuesday morning on the occasion of the Chhath festival, the family members of the devotees got ready to worship and pray to the setting and rising sun respectively from the second day of Diwali. People are busy marking their respective places on the banks of rivers and lakes and building altars. On the other hand, the committees started cleaning the ghats and beaches and installing bamboo poles. Lights and edges will be installed on it. The administration also began to make its own arrangements. 150 motor pumps and about a thousand laborers were used to remove the silt. The Municipal Corporation is using all its might to remove lakhs of tonnes of flood silt deposited on the ghats of the Ganga banks. Municipal Corporation Public Relations Officer Sandeep Srivastava said that silt has been washed away from most of the major ghats. By Friday, the Municipal Corporation had increased the number of pumps from 73 to 150 to remove silt from a length of 7.5 km on all 84 ghats. At each ghat a group of 10 workers work day and night as a gang. For this the Municipal Corporation has made a budgetary provision of more than one crore rupees. Still, the swampy ground along the riverbanks can cause problems for devotees.