Festival Lohri 2025 Date and Time (Mahurat) By Dhwani Astro

The festival Lohri is celebrated with the useful resource of the Sikhs and Punjabis. If celebrate the give up of the wintry weather season and welcome the spring (harvest) season. So, in this blog, we are going to explore about Lohri Festival 2025.

Lohri 2025 Date and Time

Date: 13th January 2025

(Lohri 2025 Muhurat) Sankranti Tithi: 9:03 Am, 14th January 2025

Lohri significances: A festival of new beginnings

According to astrology, Lohri is a Hindu solstice festival. The sun shines on Earth, bending it towards the edges of the Tropic of Capricorn. During this time, the earth begins its journey towards the sun, which also shows the end of the winter season. Also, Lohri marks the begin of the spring season. 

Also, during this festival, the ritual begins only after sunset because it is the longest night of the year. Also, people celebrate this festival at the onset of the financial year. This is when all the farmers collect their income for crops, they have grown and taken care of.

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Lohri 2025: The story behind the celebration

There are many historical stories behind the celebration of Lohri that marks the start of the harvest festival. Also, among the most important stories after the Dulla Bhati story: is Holika and Lohri’s story. Now you might think about how the festival Lohri connects with Holika.

The connection between the 2 lies in the fact that Holika and Lohri are sisters. Harnakash ordered them to take a seat down within the hearth to harm Prahlad. So, Holika took Prahlad and Lohri to sit down inside the fire. Also, the fate was with Prahlad, they burned Holika in fire but Prahlad and Lohri survived.

Lohri Punjab festival 2025

The festival of Lohri involves simple rituals with high symbolic meaning. Let’s know about the ritual for the festival and understand Lohri significances.

1.      Lighting a bonfire during the festival and inviting people from nearby places to participate in the major ritual of Lohri.

2.      People take blessings and abundance from the Lord Sun by lighting a bonfire.

3.      People assemble in a circle around the bonfire while they offer the fire Lohri festival food popcorn, peanuts, Gajak, til, and jaggery as an offering and take blessings.

4.      People exchange grains and jaggery with each other as a symbol of sharing love, blessings, and happiness.

5.      Also, people sing traditional folk songs by singing and dancing around the bonfire.

6.      People also chant special prayers that say “Aadar Aaye, Dilather Jaaye” which means that all negative energy, poverty, and hurdles go away and all positive energies and prosperity attract them.

Folk Song for Lohri Festival 2025

Sunder mundriye ho!

Tera kaun vicharaa ho!

Dullah Bhatti walla ho!

Dullhe di dhee value ho!

Ser shakkar payee ho!

Kudi da laal pathaka ho!

Kudi da saalu paata ho!

Salu kaun samete!

Chacha gali dese!

Chache choori kutti! zamidara lutti!

Zamindaar sudhaye!

Bum Bum bhole aaye!

Ek bhola reh gaya!

Sipahee far ke lai gaya!

Sipahee ne mari itt!

Paanvey ro te paanvey pitt!

Sanoo de de Lohri, te teri jeeve Jodi!

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