🌞 How to Perform Chhath Puja – Step-by-Step Ritual Guide
📅 Day 1 – Nahay Khay (Bath & Eat)
Purpose: Begin purification with holy bathing and satvik food.
🧼 Rituals:
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Clean your home thoroughly, especially kitchen and puja areas.
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Take a holy bath – preferably in a river or using Gangajal.
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Cook food using bronze utensils.
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Eat Kaddu-Bhaat (pumpkin + rice) as the only meal of the day.
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Optional: Use earthen stove (mitti chulha) and cow dung cakes.
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📅 Day 2 – Kharna (Fasting Begins)
Purpose: Observe a waterless fast (nirjal vrat) with evening prasad.
🍚 Rituals:
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Observe fast without food or water the whole day.
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In the evening, cook Jaggery Kheer, Roti/Puri, and fruits.
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Offer to Chhathi Maiya using brass thali or puja set.
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Break your fast after offering prasad.
📅 Day 3 – Sandhya Arghya (Evening Offering to Setting Sun)
Purpose: Offer gratitude to the setting sun.
🧺 Preparations:
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Arrange your Soop (bamboo winnow trays)
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Fill it with:
🕯️ Rituals:
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Walk to the riverbank (ghat) carrying the offerings in a daura (bamboo basket).
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Stand in the water, facing the setting sun.
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Offer Arghya using brass kalash or earthen pot.
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Light earthen diyas, incense sticks, and camphor.
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Wear a chunari and sing traditional Chhath songs.
📅 Day 4 – Usha Arghya (Morning Offering to Rising Sun)
Purpose: Completion of vrat and offering to the rising sun.
🌅 Rituals:
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Leave for the ghat before sunrise.
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Carry the same items used in the evening Arghya.
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As the sun rises, offer Arghya using puja kalash and sacred water.
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Break your 36-hour fast with raw milk and prasad.
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Distribute prasad to friends, family, and neighbors.
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