Importance of RakshaBandhan Festival

Rakhi 2020 is on August 3rd. Rakhi or RakshaBandhan is a festival celebrated by most of the Hindu communities in India and all over the world where Indians live. This is a festival that celebrates the sibling bond. Brothers and sisters come together to celebrate this festival, exchange gifts and promises and bond through sacred thread Rakhi. RakshaBandhan is not any different from other Indian festivals. It’s a family festival; each member of the family celebrates it with his or her own sibling. Generally siblings come together but when they can’t they send Rakhi online via web stores.

What makes RakshaBandhan beautiful is that a 95 year old celebrates it with his or her sibling with as much enthusiasm as a 5 year old. In fact more! Such is the magic of this festival. There are many stories and religious rituals involved with this celebration. While the old generation follows rituals, the new generation enjoys the festivities and environment. All of them irrespective of rituals they follow or their beliefs, what’s common in all generations is that they all hail siblinghood. Family first is the mantra everyone swears by and such energy helps the families and siblings to stay in touch and return for next rakhi.

Like all other festivals, in RakshaBandhan too everyone wears new clothes, families come together, everyone prays, there is feast at home, and of course the ritual of RakshaBandhan. Rakhi 2020 is not going to be any different. Brothers and sisters across the world will come together in thoughts if not in person to celebrate the festival, send and receive gifts and promise to remain together and prayers for the sibling bond to get stronger with each passing year.

Importance of RakshaBandhan festival is beyond gifts and feasts and tying Rakhi, the sacred thread. The underlying purpose of this celebrating the bond is to remind families to stay together and stand by each other through good and bad times. The underlying purpose of praying and typing the sacred thread is to connect with each other at a higher level and be together as long as we live. Relations are given a lot of importance in Hindu customs, they are held above everything and these festivals every few days are at the doorstep to strengthen it.