Teej is celebrated by singing and dancing and women prefer to wear bright-colored clothes. The celebration of monsoon after summer, leading to the Earth getting covered with green foliage represents fertility and the giving birth to offspring.

This Teej is also called Sawan Teej, Sharavana Teej, or Choti Teej. It is celebrated in the northern states of India, like Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, and Jharkhand. On the day, people get together to carry out cultural fairs and processions related to the Goddess Parvati. The festival holds great importance to married women as it shows fertility, beauty, and charm of mutual love and affection.

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Hariyali Teej Tradition

Hariyali Teej traditions are very important for newly married women. On the day before, Sindhara is celebrated. Sindhara is a gift that is given by parents to their daughter and her in-laws. It has many things such as bangles, henna, and sweets among others. women apply henna on their palms. The patterns and designs show the web of life that connects all of them. On this specific day, it is considered that every woman who applies Mehendi in their hands receives the blessings of luck. It is a belief that the color of Mehendi on the hands talks about the love showered by husbands.

Applying Alta on the feet represents the sacred bonds. On Hariyali Teej, women touch the feet of their laws to take their blessings. The women wear their best clothes and jewelry and are involved in the worship of Goddess Parvati. Hariyali Teej is celebrated by swinging and playing in the fields. In various places, swings are hung on the branches of the Banyan tree or Vat Vriksha. The Banyan tree is sacred and its hanging branches are supposed to show knowledge. Folk songs are sung and the women are dancing on their tunes.

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Hariyali Teej Puja Vidhi

On Hariyali Teej women worship and celebrate the union of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati to get blessings in married life. On this day, the house is cleaned and sanitized and then decorated with flowers. Lord Shiva, Lord Ganesha, Goddess Parvati, and a Shiv Lingam are placed in the house. After this, a sixteen-step ritual is performed for the deities. The Puja goes on for the whole night.

Women stay awake at this time and are involved in devotional music and chanting. Believers who are keeping fast on Hariyali Teej should not get angry or raise their voices. Women should wear green clothes and bangles. The color green is a symbol of happiness, prosperity, growth, longevity, and good health.

On Hariyali Teej, women do a fast known as ‘Nirjala Vrat’, where they don’t take food or water for the whole day. The vrat can be done by married and unmarried women. Married women do fast to be blessed with prosperity, peace, and longevity of their family and husband. Unmarried women do the fast with the hope of finding a good husband and enjoying a happy married life. The vrat is completed after 24 hours, after which women can drink water after having performed all the rituals of the Hariyali Teej Puja and Vrat. Women also worship the Moon by offering food, curd, milk, and sweets. Some people celebrate the love between Lord Krishna and Radha on Hariyali Teej.

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Hariyali Teej Ancient History

Hariyali Teej represents the love and sacred union of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati. This festival also honors the lovers, especially the God and Goddess as well as the conception that is in existence between the two. It is believed that Parvati took 107 births to get Lord Shiva as her husband. On her 108th birthday, she observed great punishments. During this time she severed all ties and there was a time she spent her days chewing up dried leaves. However, Lord Shiva’s discipline for abstinence blinded him from seeing Parvati’s devotion towards him. Goddess Parvati realized that to gain Lord Shiva’s attention, she should prove her love to him. She embarked on the dangerous journey to the Himalayas and chose a cave where she remained completely absorbed in her devotion to Lord Shiva.

Goddess Parvati sculpted a Shiva Lingam with sand and directed her devotion to Lord Shiva. Pleased with her devotion, Lord Shiva appeared before her and fulfilled her wish. Lord Shiva accepted Goddess Parvati as his wife on the third day of the Shukla Paksha of Shravan month, as a result of the fast she had observed and rituals she had carried out during the day. Since then, any woman performing this fast with full devotion is believed to get the desired blessings of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati.

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