Karva Chauth is considered a very special festival in Sanatan Dharma. On this festival, all married women keep a fast for the happy life of their husband. According to religious beliefs, women who observe this fast are blessed with a happy married life with the blessings of Lord Shiva, Parvati and Karva Mata. According to religious experts, women should read or listen to the fast story on this day, otherwise the effect of the fast will be considered incomplete.
This year, the festival of Karva Chauth will be celebrated across the country on 29th October. On this day, along with lakhs of women, their husbands also observe fast, due to which they get the blessings of Gods and Goddesses. Now the question arises that what is the fast story of Karva Chauth festival?
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karva chauth fast story
In mythological times, there was a moneylender who had seven sons and only one daughter. The whole family used to sit together and eat food. When the sister kept Nirjala fast on the Chaturthi date of Kartik month, then all the brothers told the sister that sister, you also eat food. Then his mother said that he will not eat food today because he has observed the fast of Karva Chauth. Now it will eat food only after seeing the moon at night.
The brother could not see his sister hungry and thirsty. So the brothers went to the forest and lit a fire and showed the moon. Then all the sisters-in-law said that the moon had risen. The brothers told the girl that this moon has come out for you. Hearing this, the girl offered Arghya and when she sat down to eat, the hair came out in the first bite. When he broke the second piece of bread he sneezed. After this, when the third piece was broken, a call came from the king's house that the king's son was ill.
After this, the mother opened the box three times for the girl to wear but all three times white clothes came out. Now she was sent to her in-laws' house wearing white clothes. The mother tied a gold coin in the girl's pallu and told her to fall at the feet of whoever she met on the way.
Give a gold coin to those who bless you for your married life and tie a knot in your pallu. Now whoever she met on the way, she fell at the feet of everyone, but no one gave her the blessings of marriage. When the girl reached her in-laws' house, she found her younger sister-in-law at the door. When she fell at her feet, her sister-in-law said, You are the daughter of a daughter.
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Then the girl gave him a gold coin and tied a knot in his pallu. After that she came inside and saw that her husband was lying dead. Now she remained lying in a room with it. Served him for a year. Her mother-in-law would send the leftover bread to the maid. In this way she spent a year serving her husband.
The fast of Karva Chauth has come. All the neighbors took bath and started observing the fast of Karva Chauth. Everyone washed their heads, applied henna on their hands and wore bangles. She kept watching everything. A neighbor said, you also observe the fast of Karva Chauth. Then the girl said how should I do? So she said that everything will be fine with the grace of Chauth Mata.
On his request he also kept a fast. The woman had sought blessings from her seven sisters-in-law. Earlier his fast was broken because of his younger brother. For this reason, when the sixth sister-in-law blessed her sister-in-law, with the blessings of Karva Mata, her husband became fully alive. When the husband came alive, the mother-in-law asked the daughter-in-law, 'Daughter-in-law, tell me what you did?' Then the daughter-in-law told the glory of Karva Chauth fast to her mother-in-law.
When the woman's father-in-law made a statement in the entire city that all the women should keep the fast of Karva Chauth for the long life of their husbands. First keep the Karve at your parents' home. For this reason, all women should observe Karva Chauth fast for the long life of their husbands.
Note: This article is based on religious beliefs and calculations. We do not confirm this.