Spiritual importance of celebrating Haritalika Teej

9/8/2021

Haritalika Teej is celebrated during Shukla Paksha tritiya (3rd day) of the lunar Vedic calendar month of Bhadrapada. Hariyali Teej is celebrated one month after Hariyali Teej. It is usually celebrated one day prior to Ganesh Chaturthi, which many people mistake as the birthday of Lord Ganesh. Lord Ganesh’s birthday is in the lunar Vedic calendar month of Magha (on the Shukla Chaturthi, i.e. 4th day of the waxing moon cycle) and is typically celebrated as Maghi Ganapati or Ganesh Jayanti.

Haritalika Teej is a time when women worship clay constructs of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati.

The name Haritalika is associated with the Hartalika Teej's legend. Hartalika is a combination of ‘harat’, which means abduction and ‘aalika’ which means a female friend. So, Haritalika means the abduction of the female friend. This is in accordance with the legend which states that this was the day that Goddess Parvati’s friends abducted her and took her into a dense forest to avoid getting her married off to Lord Vishnu.

Goddess Parvati wanted to marry Lord Shiva and her father was trying to get her married off to Lord Vishnu. To avoid this issue, her female friends abducted her and avoided the marriage on this day! Finally Goddess Parvati was able to marry Lord Shiva, who she earnestly wanted to marry. She had done many prayers and much penance to entice Lord Shiva to accept her, as Lord Shiva being a ‘Vairaagi’, a renunciate, did not want to get entangled in marriage and worldly bonds and responsibilities of wife and children!

Because of this, Hartalika Teej vrat is observed during the festival of Haritalika. Devotees pray and seek blessings from Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati for marital bliss and a nice progeny. It is a typical practice to read and share the Haritalika legend as part of the Haritalika Teej prayers and vrat sadhana (prayer-practice).

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Juma Vera
(aka Maitreyi Gautam)
Mystic | Healer | Writer

Vedic Culture, which is the culture of the original Himalayan Masters, is one of the most advanced ancient civilizations. It is a tradition which has given mankind several treasures such Yoga, Meditation, Conscious-Living and Vedic Sciences such as Ayurveda, Vedic Physics & Vedic Mathematics.

It was always a scientific culture that understood the very mechanics and workings of this Universe. Their deities, their gods and goddesses were all a way of expressing and explaining these energies and their inter-working. Modern Quantum Mechanics is just starting to understand string theory, dark matter etc. which have all been fundamental to the Vedic understanding. Because of this, they developed ways and methods which allowed one to best tap into life-energy itself.

Vedic Culture, as it was practiced by the Himalayan Masters, was always a "way of life" and not a religion.

Their basic view was that, there is only ONE Supreme God-head (God as our creator) and each one of us can find our path to it- experience union with that divinity (Yoga) in their own way.

Because of this, anyone with any religious affiliations and beliefs can still benefit from their knowledgeable ways of Vedic Wisdom.

Our attempt here is to present this ancient wisdom in a modern light, so our readers can interpret the true, essential meaning more easily and then extrapolate it to their own specific scenarios and enhance the quality of their life and being-ness.

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