Keralites celebrate Vishu-visit temples to offer prayers on New Year
Keralites celebrate Vishu-visit temples to offer prayers on New Year
Keralites celebrate Vishu in its true tradition. The auspicious day marks visiting temples and and offering prayers to Lord Vishnu.
Vishu marks auspicious new beginnings, family togetherness.
A significant section of Keralites considers the first day of the annual Malayalam calendar propitious for new ventures and ideal for setting fresh goals.
Vishu is considered as the biggest harvest festival by Keralites. Infact a significant section of Keralites consider the first day of the annual Malayalam calendar propitious for new ventures and ideal for setting fresh goals.
For many, Vishu entails breaking with a bleak past for novel and relatively more productive pathways in life.
The Vishu Kani ritual is central to the festival. It is essentially an aesthetic arrangement of seasonal fruits, local vegetables, rice, paddy stalks, coconuts, and sugarcane stems topped with golden-hued Kani Konna (Indian Laburnum) blossoms and flanked by lighted lamps and statuettes of Hindu gods.
Families customarily view the comely arrangement first thing on Vishu day.
The New Year, marks the arrival of the spring sowing season and the promise of a rich harvest. Exchanging gifts, sumptuous feasting, and bursting of fire-crackers characterise Vishu festivities
Families adorned in traditional Kerala attire visit temples across the State. Sabarimala, Guruvayoor, and Sree Padmanabha Swamy temples reportedly experience a higher footfall.
As per reports from Sabarimala, this year l 30,000 people booked online to attend the Vishu Pooja at Sabarimala. Temple priests distributed coin-shaped lockets of the principal deity, Ayyappa, to devotees who gathered to witness the Vishu Kani ritual.
News Edit KV Raman
