2023 Thaipusam Festival Date Tamil Calendar Pooja Timings
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2023 Thaipusam Festival:
Thaipusam is a celebration for followers of Lord Kartikeya (also called Lord Murugan), who is Lord Shiva and Devi Parvati’s son. On the Pournami Tithi (Full Moon Day) in the Tamil month of Thai, which is the same time as the Makara month on the Solar calendar used in North India, the festival is held. Thaipusam is made up of the words Thai and Pusam. Pusam is short for Nakshatram Pusam (also known as Pushya). India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and many other places around the world celebrate the festival. Today is the day for Thaipusam this year. Read on to find out more.
2023 Thaipusam Festival Date Tamil Calendar Pooja Timings
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Kavadi Attam:
The Kavadi Attam, also called the “kavadi dance,” is a religious ceremony in which dance, food offerings, and self-mortification are used to show devotion. It is often done by devotees to honour Murugan during the Thaipusam festival. The kavadi is a decorated, half-circle canopy that is held up by a wooden rod and carried by the pilgrim to the temple. The pilgrimage (the nadai payanam) is done with bare feet and food offerings on the kavadi. Depending on where the temple is, this walk can take more than a week to get there. People like to visit the Murugan temple in Palani, which is one of the arupadai veedu (“six houses” – the sites sacred to Murugan). The Palani Murugan temple is also known as a place where people go to get better. Bogar, an old siddhar who loved Murugan and was a sidhha, made the statue of Murugan in Palani by mixing together several sidhha medicines.
2023 Thaipusam Festival Date and Timings Tamil Calendar:
Thaipusam Festival is on Sunday, February 5, 2023. It starts at 9:15 a.m. on February 4, 2023, and ends at 12:15 a.m. on February 5, 2023.
Kavadi Attam Procedure:
Devotees get ready for the Thaipusam by always keeping their bodies clean, praying often, eating a vegetarian diet, and fasting. When they take on the kavadi and when they give it to Murugan, people who carry the kavadi have to do elaborate ceremonies. The person who carries the kavadi stays celibate and eats only satvik food once a day, all while thinking about God all the time. On the day of the festival, devotees shave their heads and go on a pilgrimage along a set route, doing different acts of devotion along the way, like carrying the different kinds of kavadi. The people who worship Lord Murugan in this way every year believe that it makes them healthy physically and mentally and helps them pay off any karmic debts they may have.
The pilgrimage can be as simple as walking the route while carrying a pot of milk, but it is also common to pierce the skin, tongue, or cheeks with vel skewers as a form of mortification. Some people also stick a small spear all the way through their tongues or cheeks. In Pazhani, India, a group of Nagarathar people do something similar. The Nagarathar Kavadi is the name for this.
Meaning of Thaipusam Soorapadman had become so strong that the Devas couldn’t beat him. In order to save the universe, the Devas asked Lord Shiva for help. In response, Lord Shiva used his divine powers to create Murugan. So, the God who fights came to be. Soorapadman was eventually taken out of the game. And when the demon died, the Devas could finally be happy again. Peace and order were brought back. So, on Thaipusam, people worship Lord Murugan to ask for his help and to get rid of their problems.
