Makar Sankranti: Short notes and haiku



 SHORT NOTE

In 2025, the festival of Makar Sankranti being celebrated on January 14 dedicated to Lord Surya (Sun Deity) marked by beginning of longer days and warmer nights. It is also a harvest festival that signifies a shift in astrological and agricultural cycles in India.

 Furthermore, the festival also gives the spiritual message of triumph of good over evil since the India Hindu mythology informs that on this day the divine figure Kikrant had vanquished the demon Sankarasur.

 On this day, people wish one another "Happy Makar Sankranti!" and mark the day with bathing in rivers, sun-worshiping, fasting, kite flying, bonfires, and local delicacies.:

 Spiritual message in haiku

 Makar Sankranti -
Be self-luminous like sun
To dispel in-gloom
***
Grow in purity
Gain wisdom and self-knowledge
Shine with inner light
***
Divine pervades all
Self-ignite the spark within
To shine forth like Sun

 

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