Lifestyle News Desk. Holi festival is one of the major festivals of Hindus. It is believed that on this day people get completely immersed in colors and hug each other, celebrating good over evil. It is believed that the color and gulal played on the day of Holi enhance mutual love and harmony. Holika Dahan takes place just a day before Holi, the festival of colors, in which prayers are offered to end all evils. It is believed that in the fire of Holika, all the evils and evils are burnt to ashes. On this day, many different measures are adopted for the happiness and prosperity of the house and many different methods are tried to fulfill the wishes.
One of the few such measures is to apply a boil on the body on the day of Holika Dahan. It is believed that on the day of Holika Dahan, all the members of the house should apply a paste of turmeric and flour on the body. By doing this all the evils of the house go away. Even if you believe in astrology, applying ubtan on the day of Holika Dahan is considered very auspicious. Let's learn from Narada Sanchar's astrologer Anil Jain about the importance of applying Ubtan on the day of Holika Dahan.
The scientific importance of boiling
Often girls apply different types of boils on the skin to enhance beauty. Applying ubtan on the skin, where on one hand the skin gets glowing, on the other hand, the turmeric used in ubtan protects the skin from many types of disorders. Even if there is any kind of injury in the body, it also gets cured with the effect of turmeric. That's why turmeric powder is applied all over the body on this day.
Ubtan is applied in auspicious work
It is believed that turmeric is used in any auspicious work. For this reason, even in auspicious work like marriage, turmeric powder is applied to the bride and the groom. Turmeric used in rubbing is a symbol of auspiciousness and harmony in the house, so turmeric rubbing is used to bring happiness to the house even during the festival of Holi.
Astrological importance of applying ubtan in Holika Dahan
On the day of Holika Dahan (the auspicious time of Holika Dahan), the practice of applying ubtan, which has been going on for centuries, is intact even today. The astrological importance of applying ubtan is told. According to astrology, on the day of Holika Dahan, if all the people in the house use turmeric mixed with boiling water in the body and put the boiling water removed from the body in the fire of Holika, then all the evils of the house flow into the fire of Holika and the body The disease becomes free. It is believed that all the diseases of the body also go away along with the ubtan flowing in Holika Dahan.
How to apply ubtan
Astrologer Anil Jain ji tells that on the day of Holika Dahan, women grind mustard seeds in their houses and mix turmeric, curd, honey in it and apply ubtan. All the members of the house massage their bodies with ubtan and take it out of their bodies. Ubtan, which is considered a symbol of evil, after being rubbed on the body, is collected and burnt in Holika at the time of Holi Dahan.
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What the scriptures say
It is believed in the scriptures that Holika keeps you away from diseases and ailments throughout the year by burning physical suffering with her. The second reason is also that Ubatan protects people from the attack of possible germs due to the change of seasons and also keeps skin diseases away. According to astrology, the objects included in Ubtan represent the planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Moon, etc. and all these planets play an important role in happiness, prosperity, mental peace, increase in fortune, and destruction of diseases. These planets are remedied by this method and your life remains happy and prosperous throughout the year.
Do these measures on the day of Holika Dahan
Just before Holika Dahan, all the members of the house should prepare Ubtan and apply it all over the body. While applying Ubtan on this day, pray for the peace of the house and collect Ubtan removed from the body on the paper. Prepare a big dough by collecting the udder of the whole family and take a handful of mustard seeds along with 11 dung cakes made of cow dung after Holika Dahan, circumambulate the Holika 7 or 11 times and flow the udder and cow dung cakes in it. . Standing in front of Holika's fire with family, pray for peace and prosperity of the house. Apply the Gulal vaccine to everyone and maintain mutual love.
According to astrology, if you also apply ubtan on the body on the day of Holika Dahan, then the body can be free from diseases.
