Know Date, Time and Importance of donation

According to the Hindu calendar, the second month of the year, Vaishakh, has great religious and spiritual significance. The Amavasya date of this month is considered especially virtuous. When the Sun is located in Aries and the Moon sets, the Amavasya that comes is called Vaishakh Amavasya. This date is considered very suitable for liberation from ancestral debt, self-purification, bath-charity, tarpan and meditation.

Importance of Vaishakh Amavasya

It is said that worshiping the Peepal tree and offering water on the auspicious day of Vaishakh Amavasya brings blessings of the Tridevs. Worshiping Goddess Lakshmi in the holy month of Vaishakh is also considered very auspicious. Also, this day is considered appropriate to get rid of Pitra Dosh.

During this time, if you donate to the poor and helpless people, then God is pleased and the soul of the ancestors gets peace. It is believed that bathing in the Ganges river on this day brings auspicious results. One must listen to the Shrimad Bhagwat Katha on Vaishakh Amavasya. This gives never-ending virtuous results.

Vaisakh Amavasya date and auspicious time

According to the Vedic calendar, the Amavasya date of Krishna Paksha of Vaishakh month will start on 27 April at 4:49 am and it will end the next day, 28 April at 1:00 am. For this reason, the festival of Vaishakh Amavasya will be celebrated on 27 April.

Importance of donation on Vaishakh Amavasya

Donating food and water is considered to be of great importance on Vaishakh Amavasya. It is said that by donating food and water on this holy day, a person gets the same virtue as doing pilgrimage. Therefore, on this day, along with feeding the poor and helpless people, give water to the people and arrange for a drinking water stall for passersby. By doing this, the blessings of God remain on the seekers and the souls of their ancestors get peace.

Donating is a very important task in the Sanatan tradition. It is said that the person who donates to Brahmins and poor and helpless people with a pure conscience according to his mind, words and deeds, gets its fruits in this birth as well as in the next birth. Donating on the holy day of Amavasya increases the happiness of the seekers which brings positive changes in their lives.

The importance of donating has been mentioned in many mythological texts. It is said in Manusmriti-

Tapah Param Kritayuge Tretaaya Gyanamuchyate.

Dwapare Yagyamewahurdanamekam Kalou Yuge.

That is, penance in Satyayuga, knowledge in Treta, yagya in Dwapara and donation in Kaliyuga are the means of human welfare.

Donate these things on the holy occasion of Vaishakh Amavasya

On the auspicious occasion of Vaishakh Amavasya, donation of food and grains is considered the best. Also, donation of clothes and education is also of special importance on this auspicious day. On this day, feeding and donating clothes to poor and helpless children along with donating things related to education is considered virtuous. On the auspicious occasion of Vaishakh Amavasya, become a part of virtue by cooperating in the project of food donation, clothes donation and education donation of Narayan Seva Sansthan.