Teej Festival
Signifaction of teej festival
Teej is the great festival for Hindu Women who celebrate as for the longlasting life of her husband.It is also a monsoon festival celebrated for the union of lord shiva(Hindu God is known as destruction and creation ) and Parvati (hindu Goddess is known as Devi Shakti).
How Teej Festival Is Celebrated
Teej usually falls in Nepali Bhadra month (August to September), so it is also called the moonstone festival. During the festival, people worship the God of Gods Shiva and Devi Parvati at Pashupatinath temple as their union day. It is a day of fasting, so Hindu women dress all in Red Sari, Gold, and Silver jewelry just to look like Parvati and worship their husbands and fast to honour Lord Shiva & pray for the long life of husband and pray for a happy married life. Teej is all about praying the Devi Parvati and Lord Shiva, worshipping and remembering their union day, and staying all night in the name of God and Goddess.
As Teej is all about Mahadev Shiva and Devi Parvati, people visit Pashupatinath Temple to worship Lord Shiva and to pray for the happiness and health of the family. More than 500,000 Nepali women visit Pashupatinath Temple during the Teej festival. People from different parts of the Indian subcontinent come to visit Pashupatinath to appease Lord Shiva.
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