Festival Of Makar Sankranti and season of playing kites in India also first festival of the year

Makar Sankranti 

Makar Sankranti, celebrated on January 14, 2015. Is celebrated for its sesame desserts and kite flying. Sadhguru takes a gander at the centrality of this celebration of development, and clarifies how it is focused around a significant understanding of infinite and human geometry.

Development is average just to a point. The planet earth is moving tenderly in such a delightful way it is just evolving seasons. Tomorrow, in the event that it simply accelerates, throttles up a smidgen, then all our apparently adjusted personalities will get to be imbalanced, everything will turn wild. So development is wonderful just to a certain point. When it crosses that point, development gets to be torment. 

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 All religious celebrations are expected to be commended in a profoundly right manner to get otherworldly profits from them. In any case, over a time of time, the neighborhood traditions impact the festivals.

 As per the 'traditions have more effect on individuals than the Scriptures;' people imitate others aimlessly and praise celebrations in their own particular manner. In this way Makar Sankranti is praised contrastingly in distinctive parts of Bharat (India). 

In Assam, this celebration is called Magh Bihu and goes on for a week. The whole week is loaded with customary diversions like pot breaking and wild ox battling. Consistently is a blowout where individuals blaze all the nourishment after they have consumed it. The nourishment is smoldered in a straw cabin, which then transforms into a campfire.Profound noteworthiness of desserts made out of sesame seed.

1. Before dispersing desserts made out of sesame seeds, they ought to be kept before an icon or a picture of a Deity on one's holy place. This aides hold the Shakti (Divine Energy) and Chaitanya in the desserts.

2. At the point when dispersing desserts made of sesame seeds, bhāv (otherworldly feeling) and Chaitanya is stirred in us.

3. All the parts of the house determine the profit of the expanded Chaitanya in the earth.

4. The prembhav in individuals increments and they find themselves able to overcome negative thinking and supplant it with positive considering.

5. As indicated by Āyurvēda, consuming sesame seeds in winter are advantageous for our well being. Profoundly, sesame seeds and sesame oil can assimilate and emanate Sattva frequencies more than some other oil. Subsequently, amid Makar Sankranti, sesame seeds are good for good sadhana to happen.

6. Vitality of sesame seed desserts: Sesame seeds can ingest and radiate high measures of Sattva frequencies. By devouring sesame seed desserts, internal sanitization happens which helps enhance one's sadhana. By conveying these desserts to one another, there is a trade of sāttviktā, which helps expand everybody's sattvikta. 

Hindu celebrations are extraordinary chances to guzzle the expanded measure of positive vitality and Deities' guideline in the earth. However this is conceivable just if one commends the celebrations according to the direction of Hindu Dharma.

By holding fast to Dharma we can determine the most extreme advantage of every celebration along these lines cleansing ourselves and nature.

The Significance of Makar Sankranti -

 

The essentials of the Makar Sankranti celebration is that it denote the day where there is a critical development in the zodiac – the course of action of the world's dial around the sun – and this development achieves another change in the way we encounter the planet itself.

There are numerous sankrantis as the year progressed; the two noteworthy ones being Makar Sankranti, and right inverse, after summer solstice is Karka Sankranti. 

In the middle of, there are numerous Sankrantis – each time the zodiac signs transform, it is known as a Sankranti to propose the development of the planet, to comprehend that our life is supported and fed by this development.

In the event that this development stops, everything about us will stop. On the 22nd of December, the solstice happened, that implies in connection to the sun, the development or the tilt of the planet achieves its most extreme. 

Presently, from this day onwards, the northern development is solid. Things truly begin changing upon the earth. From Makar Sankranti onwards, winter is being soothed regulated.

Makar Sankranti is celebrated with different names in Hindus –

In Bengal, Makar Sankranti is noted for the Ganga Sagar Mela and Pithey parban.

Bhogali Bihu is commended on the day in Assam.

Makar Mela is seen in Orissa.

In North India, it is the time of Lohri and Khichadi.

In Central India, it is Sankranti.

In Tamil Nadu, Makar Sankranti is seen as Pongal.

In Andhra Pradesh, it is known as Sankranthi.

In Karnataka - Sankranthi

In Maharashtra it Makar Sankranti and Til Gul

In Kerala, the celebrated Sabarimala Pilgrimage reaches an end with locating of the Makaravilakku.

In Gujarat and Rajasthan, it is known as Uttarayan and is noted for the kite flying occasion.

It is an essential washing date amid the popular Magh Mela and Kumbh Mela at Sangam (Prayag) in Allahabad.

Famous dish made in Makar Sankranti

'Sesame Laddu'/'Til ke Laddu'/'Nuvullu Laddu'/'Tillache Laddu'

Fixings

1/2 containers white sesame seeds/nuvvulu/til

1/4 containers ground jaggery/gud/bellam (ground or cut into little pieces)

1/2 container oats, dry cooked for 5 mts, cooled and ground to a powder (discretionary)

10-12 almonds or cashew nuts or fistful of peanuts, dry meal, cool and make a coarse powder (discretionary)

1/2 – 2 tbsps milk

1/2 tsp cardamom pwd (discretionary).

Steps to make the 'Sesame Laddu'/'Til ke Laddu'/'Nuvullu Laddu'/'Tillache Laddu' 

 1. Dry meal sesame seeds in an overwhelming bottomed vessel till the crudeness vanish and a nutty smell radiates the kitchen. Cook on low fire and don't blaze them. Uproot onto a wide plate and permit cooling.

2. In the same vessel, include the oats and dry dish on low fire for 5 mts. Evacuate onto a plate and cool.

3. In the same vessel, include the almonds and dry dish on low fire for 5 mts. Evacuate onto a plate and cool.

4. First and foremost pound the almonds till course. Uproot onto a dish. Next toil the oats to a powder (5 seconds). Uproot onto a vessel with almond powder.

5. Next mix the sesame seeds for 5-6 seconds. You need to make a coarse powder of the sesame seeds. Include the ground jaggery and mix till cons.

 

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