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Hindu Indian Wife Fasts for Her Husband on Karva Chauth

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Karva Chauth FestivalKarva Chauth (Karwa Chauth) is a Hindu festival. This festival has its own significance.  On this day, all Hindu married women keep fast for their husband’s long life, well-being and prosperity. According to Hindu lunar calendar, this festival is celebrated on the fourth day of Krishna Paksha in the month of ‘Kartik’. This vrat rituals starts from early morning and ends on late night or with moonrise. All married woman keep the fast for whole day till moon rise. The main objective of the fast is to have happy and blissful married life.

As per Hindu mythological stories, Karva Chauth fast was first done by Goddess Parvati for her husband Lord Shiva. Goddess Parvati had put great efforts before marriage to get Lord Shiva as her husband. Married women keep the fast for whole day to tribute to Goddess Parvati for her sacrifices to Lord Shiva to get him as husband. The word ‘Karva’ means clay pot and ‘Chauth’ stands for fourth. Karwa Chauth describes the fourth day of the ‘Kartik’ month of Indian Hindu calendar which followed by full moon night. Women break their fast after viewing the moon at night and her husband through a sieve. Women offer flowers and water to the moon during the prayer. After completing that ritual her husband feed her some fruit or sweet to break the fast.

Hindu and Sikh married women celebrate this special day with ladies of their family and with other females. It is widely celebrated in the states of Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra. Nowadays, Karwa Chauth is celebrated in almost all cities of India due to the cultural effect of Bollywood and Hindi cinema. The Indian Hindu communities who are living in the UK, the US, Canada, Singapore and Australia celebrate this important festival among themselves. Sometimes it is seen the unmarried girls also keep fast to get married to the desired husbands.

Woman in India are worshipped as Goddess with in different stages of their like such as daughter, wife and mother. Her mother-in-law and husband offer her gifts like jewelry, clothes and ornaments. All married women dress up majorly in pink or red colored sari with Mehndi (Henna) on her hand during this festival as these two colors as considered most auspicious in Hindu religion. Newly married brides will wear their wedding attire on her first Karva Chauth. This bridal look on this festival dedicated to her love for her husband. Bollywood films like ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’ and ‘Baghban’ are most popular for Karva Chauth.

LoveVivah.com Indian matrimony websites offers platform for girls and boys to search their suitable groom and bride profiles. Wishing a very Happy Karwa Chauth…!

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Kerala Girl for Malayalam Wedding

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Kerala Bride - South Indian Girl for Mariage

Kerala is the southernmost state of India situated in the Indian Ocean. It is also called as God’s own country. The people living in the state generally speak Malayalam language. These people are known as ‘Malayali’ across the country. You can find these people across the country. When they start searching for their life partner, it is obvious that they look for bride or groom from Kerala and from their community.

In Kerala, you can easily view the religious diversity, however most of the people are Hindu, followed by Muslim and Christian respectively. Generally, people of these communities like to search a life partner for their son/daughter within their community. There are many people who register and create profile of their son/daughter with Kerala matrimony sites. The education ratio is high in this state and most of the girls and boys are highly educated. However, you can easily see Muslim parents looking for a prospective groom for their daughter in Gulf countries who is well settled. Christian parents are more open-minded and they don’t mind to search for a life partner in India and other countries as well.

Some of the most popular communities of Kerala in all three major religions are:

Hindu: Nair, Menon, Eeshava

Muslim: Pathan, Sunni, Shafi/Hanafi madhab

Christian — Roman Catholic, Latin Catholic, Pentecost church.

Kerala is a beautiful place and you can easily witness three different types of wedding rituals in the beautiful place. Here you can easily witness Nair wedding, Syrian/Christian wedding or Sunni wedding in Kerala. You will notice different wedding rituals and ceremonies in these three different religions. One similarity you will notice in Karela wedding is simplicity in their wedding rituals. However, all the communities follow their own rituals which are largely different. But, Kerala Hindu bride and Kerala Christian bride wears white saree with gold border and Kerala Muslim brides wear traditional Muslim attire during wedding. All Kerala Hindu wedding ceremonies are conducted in temple and Kerala Christian wedding ceremonies are conducted in church and in both the marriage rituals Kerala groom ties mangalsutra in bride’s neck as a ritual and applies sindoor in the forehead of the bride and complete the ceremony.

 

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Lakshmi Puja Festival for Goddess of Wealth Celebration

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Maa Lakshmi is believed as the Goddess of wealth as per the Hindu mythology. As per epic she is the wife of Lord Vishnu who referred to supreme God and most powerful. The devotees of Goddess Lakshmi are blessed with good wealth and health in their life. So people keep religion fast and prayers to get well blessing of wealthy deity. This festival mostly celebrated in the eastern region of India which includes West Bengal, Odisha, Tripura, Assam and Manipur. The Govt. of these respective states declared the festival as official holiday for celebration.

On the auspicious occasion people welcome to Goddess Lakshmi with decoration of their house candles, oil lamps and electric lights. Prayers are arranged for family prosperity, wealth, health and good business. Delight sweets, foods are offered to Maa Lakshmi with decorated festive light in the home. According to the Hindu epic Maa Lakshmi loves for cleanliness and her first travel to most clean home. So the oil lamps (Diyas) and candles are lit from evening to till morning for welcome of the wealthy goddess. On the special day the goddess of wealth visits to her devotee’s house and showers her blessings on human for wealth, health and prosperity.

On the Laxmi Puja is also celebrated in the time of Diwali when people new ornaments of gold, silver, precious gemstones and utensils as mark of good luck for prosperity and wealth. These newly bought things are used on Lakshmi Puja night with devotional prayer.  Generally five Gods Ganesh (Vighneshvara), Mahalakshmi (Goddess of wealth), Saraswati (goddess of learning), and Mahakali (goddess of power) and Kubera (treasurer of Gods) are worshiped on this festival. The rangoli by using various colors are drawn at the doorstep of houses to welcome Maa Lakshmi with lighting her path.

Also big puja pandals are created for idols of Goddess Lakshmi in cities of Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, and Guwahati for celebration. This festival is believed to the great for starting new business, organization, buying house, booking of wealth or property for the family. Keeping the faith the market is offering more discounts on shopping across the festival season. On the occasion parents of boy and girl are searching for good bride and grooms for wedding. You can check the marriage matrimony sites offering great discounts on the festive Lakshmi puja to attract more registration of the profiles to their website.

Wishing Happy Lakshmi Puja to your family for prosperity, wealth and health…!

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Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti: Birthday Tribute to Father of the Nation

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Mahatma Gandhi is most popularly famous as ‘GandhiJi’ to everyone in India. He was born on 2nd Oct 1869 as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to his Hindu bania parents named Karamchand Gandhi and Putlibai in Porbandar, Gujarat state of British India. Gandhi is also known as ‘Bapuji’ in India for his unforgettable struggle and leading contributions for the freedom of India from the British rule. Govt of Republic of India declared 2 October as National Holidays of India to mark the birthday of the ‘Father of the Nation’. Every year this day is official observed as ‘Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti’ in all the states and union territories of India.

Gandhi Jayanti is one of the three officially declared National Holidays in India. Another two national holidays are 26 January (Republic Day) and 15 August (Independence Day) which celebrated with lots public functions throughout the country. Public services from Govt offices, banking and postal services are normally closed on Gandhi Jayanti. Private organizations also marked as holiday with opening of only the emergency services like hospital, medicine store, and transport service for urgent requirements of the people. Education institutes like school, college, university are generally hold completion of essay writing, quiz, debate and cultural function related on life and history of Mahatma Gandhi.

The main public event of Gandhi Jayanti is observed in the national capital with prayer services at Gandhi’s memorial ‘Raj Ghat’ in New Delhi. The honorable President and Prime Minister of the India are present on this national ceremony with prayer of ‘Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram’ favorite devotional song in his remembrance. Gandhi Jayanti conventionally observed with singing prayers, meeting, lighting candles, commemorative ceremonies and offering flowers on Gandhiji’s statue or photo in various cities and all parts of the country. His patriotic and valuable philosophy inspires all the Indian as the ideal person for Independence of India.

People around the world also certified the glorifying non-violence and peace of Gandhi’s effort in Freedom Struggle of India. The United Nations on significance reputation of Gandhi Jayanti commemorating Mahatma Gandhi’s birth day as the International Day of non-violence. The three most important locations of Mahatma Gandhi are Sabarmati Asharm the place of the Gandhi’s most of the life. Second is the Martyr’s Column at Gandhi Smriti in Delhi where Gandhi was shot. Third is the Raj Ghat on the banks of the river Yamuna in Delhi the place of his cremation. Please visit these places to know more about the life of Mahatma.

Lovevivah.com matrimonial site is wishing very Happy Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti to all the Indian.

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Indian Marriage with A Foreign Spouse

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Marriage is regarded as one of the most auspicious event for everyone in India. It is not celebration time for family, but for relatives as well. When someone is searching for a partner for marriage, it depends on their personal choice to select from their own country or search a partner from abroad. Generally, most of the Indians prefer to get married with someone who is residing in the same city, state or country, rather than getting married to someone who is settled abroad.  However, in some cases, when we are not able to find a suitable match according to our expectations, we expand our search criteria and start exploring international avenues as well. This is crucial and special marriage, where you can conduct and register the marriage according to Indian laws or in accordance to that respective foreign country’s laws.

We don’t mind to get married to International Indians, who are majorly known as Non Residence Indians (NRIs). While getting married to these NRIs, you need to follow certain rules and legal documentations processes of that specific country in which they are presently living. But, before getting married to any NRI, it is always better if you check the list of the legal laws of different forms before entering into this nuptial bond with the foreign national.

Generally, Indian wedding ceremonies are performed in the presence of family members of both families and guests. You can check the list of the legal laws forms before signing the legal papers. But, in case both, the bride and groom are living in the same country out of India, then it may be easier to complete the necessary legal certification work for wedding.

For an Indian bride, who is looking for a foreign spouse should be acquainted with religion, culture, traditions and climate of her future husband’s country. It will help in settling their family member after marriage. It will be always better to choose NRI as life partner from same religion. You will not find it too difficult to adjust with NRI Indian family who is from different religion and you will not find it difficult to start this new relationship. If both the partners are from same religion, then you can witness the grand marriage celebration from both the in foreign country.

Indian boys looking for their future life partner can take help of online matrimonial sites to search a prospective life partner. You can also register with www.lovevivah.com to search brides and groom of NRIs from abroad residing in UK, USA, Canada, Singapore and Australia. You can create a profile for free from anywhere and anytime. After registering with us and creating your complete profile you can start your partner search. You can send and share your interest, view contact details, chat and fix a meeting if someone if you get the positive response from that. It is that simple and easy.

 

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