kharagpurmylove: October 2014

Chatpuja is basically puja of god Sun and Chatimaiya. This festival started from Rig-Veda era, and in Mahabharata period Dropadi as well as Karna (son of Hindu god Sun) also performs this ritual. Chatpuja celebrate in all part of India as well as different corner of World by East and North Indian people basically people belongs from Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. You can also get detail of last year chat puja pictures in my last year post: Chat puja in Kharagpur and near about area.

Chattpuja in Belur math

Light Decoration in Bhagwanpur during Chatpuja in Kharagpur

ladies doing Surya Upasana during Chat in Kolkata

Kharagpur Kharida mandir Talab during Chatpuja in 2014

Sup for Chatpuja in Inda Kharagpur

Mandir Talab in Kharida Kharagpur in evening during Chatpuja in 2014

In kharagpur Mandirtalab in kharida is main place for chatpuja, but other area of Kharagpur like: JhinTalab in Bhagwanpur, Jhapatapur and Inda where local people do this ritual in local pond. From last few years people of this town went to Kansawati River for doing this ritual. Kansawati River is only taking fifteen minutes to reach by local train from giri maidan.

Inda kharagpur in evening during Chatpuja in 2014

Chatpuja in Kansawati river in Kharagpur

Chati Maa pandal in Kharida in Kharagpur

Main reason for this puja: Sun is main sole of every living being in earth, Human directly or indirectly depends on sun for their food and energy and for medicine. As per Hindu astrology Sun went in nich rashi on the other hand Saturn was become powerful (Saturn or Shani is son of Sun) in this period so people do this ritual to overcome from the negative energy .Read my astrology section to get information about sun effect in your sun sign.

Surya Upasana in Chatpuja during Evening in Kansawati River in Kharagpur

Chatpuja in Inda Kharagpur

Chattpuja in Jamshedpur

Sandhya Ardhya to Sun

You can also overcome from any difficulty in your life if you regularly do surya upasana .Other than Kharagpur, Jamshedpur, different ghats of Ganga River in Kolkata also this ritual performed by people. There is no boundation for performing his puja but women are mainly did this ritual as well as they fasting for this festival.

As shawan is holy month for north Indian Kartik month is holy month for South Indian. South Indian community of Kharagpur town worship god Shiva in this month, some of them went to Kansawati River for taking bath on every Monday of this month and they did Shiva Aradhana in whole month. House wife’s getup early in this month and clean their home and decorate their front gate with rangoli and went to temple.

Dipawali or Kalipuja is one of the main attractions in kharagpur. As Kharagpur is also known as mini Indian because people from different community and religion are lived together. In my last year 2013 post :Kalipuja in kharagpur ,you can watch 2013 kali puja in town. As Kalipuja and Dipawali would celebrate together. All Bengoli and non Bengoli people celebrate this festival together.

Kalipuja in Kharagpur 2014

Kali puja pandal near Aotulmoni School in Kharagpur

IIT Main gate Entrance during Dipawali

Rangoli decoration at entarce during Dipawali

Different colorful lights sold in Market

Kali Puja Pandal in Inda Kharagpur

Another Kali Puja Pandal from Inda Kharagpur

Jagriti Club Old Settlement Kharagpur Kali Puja Pandal

KaliPuja Pandal from Jhapatapur Kharagpur

Giri Club Kali Puja Pandal in Kharagpur

Kharida Kalipuja Immersion in Kharagpur

A kali Puja Pandal in Railway colony in Kharagpur

Samsan Kali in Mandir Talab Kharagpur

Talbagicha In Kharagpur Kali puja pandal

Jhargram is only 60 km from kharagpur and well connected by road as well as rail.Here is some pictures from Jhargram Kalipuja in 2014.

Kali Puja in Jhargram in 2014

Sidheswar Kali Temple from Medinipur

People cleaned their home few days before the puja as well as they colored their home, shopkeepers and businessmen also clean there shop before Dipawali. In Dipawali people do Laxmi Ganesh puja,to get blessing from godess Laxmi for fortune(you can also read my blog how to get fortune from some easy steps).All the home in town decorated with colorful lights .

Some years back, when I was kid I watch people decorate their entrance with banana trees and bamboo and enlighten clay lamp with oil. This was the tradition way to celebrate Dipawali but now the trend change and now most of the home used artificial and decorative Chinese lamp.

You can find Kalipuja pandal in all parts of town but main attraction were Bengoli areas like Inda, Malancha. The biggest Godess Kali idol made in Kharida market. In this post I can also give some pictures from Bramhotsav of Balaji temple in malancha Kharagpur.

Balaji Temple decorated with lights during Bramhotsav

Balaji Temple

Balaji Temple entrance during Bramhotsav

Bramhotsav was organized in the mid October every year. During Bramhotsav different Hindu rituals and Yaag organized in Balaji temple. Priests came from south India specially to participate in this festival, whole temple decorate with lights. Kalipuja basically done after midnight, and laxmi puja did in evening or before 9p.m. so people participate in kalipuja after finishing laxmipuja in their home. In the last section of my post you can watch some pictures of Naag panchmi puja.

A south Indian Girl worship a Naag idol in Kharagpur during Naagpanchami

People worship Naag during Naagpanchami in Kharagpur

Naagpanchami puja was basically done by south Indian community of town. They went in different snake hide area like railway yard and give eggs and milk to snake with their families.

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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Chatpuja in Kharagpur in 2014

Monday, October 27, 2014

Kalipuja Dipawali in Kharagpur 2014