Guru Purnima 2021
Guru Purnima is a Hindu festival which is dedicated to spiritual and academic teachers. This is celebrated traditionally by Hindus and Buddhists for thanking their teachers. This is marked as the ritual concerning the guru, guru Puja. The principle of guru is remembered a thousand times more active on the day of Guru Purnima. The term guru is taken from two words ‘GU’ and ‘RU’. The Sanskrit meaning of the word ‘GU’ means darkness or ignorance. The word RU means remover of the darkness. The one who removes darkness is known as the guru. People believed that Gurus needed to be the most necessary part of their lives. The disciples give Puja to pay respect to their guru.
It falls on the day of the full moon, Purnima which is in the month of Ashadh, June-July. As per the Indian national calendar and Hindu calendar, it falls in July. This year 2021 Guru Purnima is on 24th July. The festival is having more importance for Indian academics and scholars. They are celebrating this day by thanking their teachers as well as remembering their past gurus and scholars. Mainly this festival is celebrated by Buddhists for honoring the lord Buddha who gave his first sermon on this day at Sarnath, U.P.
The Hindu people celebrate in the honor of the great Vyasa who is one of the greatest gurus in ancient Hinduism. He is a symbol of the guru- shishya tradition. Some people believe that Vyasa was not born on this day, but he started writing Brahma sutras on Ashaddha Sudha Padyami which ends on this day. Recitations are maintained and dedicated on this day. It is also known as Vyasa Purnima. Especially the festival is more common in all spiritual traditions in Hinduism, where it is a gratitude towards their teacher by his or her disciple. Hindu ascetics and monks give Puja to the guru during chetrum which is four months during the rainy season. When they are secluded they stay in one place. Some people give discourses to the public people. The students in Indian classical music follow the guru Shishya Parampara and they celebrate this festival around the world.
Hindu mythology
Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa who is the author of Mahabharata was born on this day to Parashara and the fisherman’s daughter Satyavati. This day is treated as Vyasa Purnima. Veda Vyasa did the yeoman service for the cause of Vedic studies by taking all the Vedic hymns during their times, which divides them into four parts based on their sacrificial rites. He taught his four disciples named Palla, Vaisampayana, Jaimini, and Sumantu. By dividing and editing that he earned the honorific Vyasa. Mainly he divided the Veda into four: Rig, Yajur, Sama, and Atharva. The Puranas and their histories are to be of the 5th Veda.
The full moon day in the month of Hindu named Ashad is observed as the auspicious day of Guru Purnima which is celebrated in the memory of great Vyasa. All the Hindu people are indebted to the ancient saint who divided into four Vedas and wrote the 18 Puranas, the Mahabharata, and Srimad Bhagavata. Vyasa also taught Dattatreya who is mentioned as the Guru of gurus.
Significance
On this day all the spiritual people and devotees worship Vyasa mainly in the honor of divine personage and all the disciples give a Puja for their respective Preceptor or the guru Devs. For farmers, this day is having more significance. The setting of much-needed rain as the advent of cool showers gives good fresh life in paddy fields. Also, many believe this day is good for starting their spiritual classes. The spiritual seekers intensify their spiritual Sadhana on this day.
The period Chaturmas which is of four months begins from this day. In the early past wandering spiritual gurus and their disciples used to settle at a place for studying and discourse in Brahma sutras which is composed by Vyasa and engage them in the Vedantic lessons.
Guru Purnima is a Hindu festival which is dedicated to spiritual and academic teachers. This is celebrated traditionally by Hindus and Buddhists for thanking their teachers. This is marked as the ritual concerning the guru, guru Puja. The principle of guru is remembered a thousand times more active on the day of Guru Purnima. The term guru is taken from two words ‘GU’ and ‘RU’. The Sanskrit meaning of the word ‘GU’ means darkness or ignorance. The word RU means remover of the darkness. The one who removes darkness is known as the guru. People believed that Gurus needed to be the most necessary part of their lives. The disciples give Puja to pay respect to their guru.
It falls on the day of the full moon, Purnima which is in the month of Ashadh, June-July. As per the Indian national calendar and Hindu calendar, it falls in July. This year 2021 Guru Purnima is on 24th July. The festival is having more importance for Indian academics and scholars. They are celebrating this day by thanking their teachers as well as remembering their past gurus and scholars. Mainly this festival is celebrated by Buddhists for honoring the lord Buddha who gave his first sermon on this day at Sarnath, U.P.
The Hindu people celebrate in the honor of the great Vyasa who is one of the greatest gurus in ancient Hinduism. He is a symbol of the guru- shishya tradition. Some people believe that Vyasa was not born on this day, but he started writing Brahma sutras on Ashaddha Sudha Padyami which ends on this day. Recitations are maintained and dedicated on this day. It is also known as Vyasa Purnima. Especially the festival is more common in all spiritual traditions in Hinduism, where it is a gratitude towards their teacher by his or her disciple. Hindu ascetics and monks give Puja to the guru during chetrum which is four months during the rainy season. When they are secluded they stay in one place. Some people give discourses to the public people. The students in Indian classical music follow the guru Shishya Parampara and they celebrate this festival around the world.
Hindu mythology
Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa who is the author of Mahabharata was born on this day to Parashara and the fisherman’s daughter Satyavati. This day is treated as Vyasa Purnima. Veda Vyasa did the yeoman service for the cause of Vedic studies by taking all the Vedic hymns during their times, which divides them into four parts based on their sacrificial rites. He taught his four disciples named Palla, Vaisampayana, Jaimini, and Sumantu. By dividing and editing that he earned the honorific Vyasa. Mainly he divided the Veda into four: Rig, Yajur, Sama, and Atharva. The Puranas and their histories are to be of the 5th Veda.
The full moon day in the month of Hindu named Ashad is observed as the auspicious day of Guru Purnima which is celebrated in the memory of great Vyasa. All the Hindu people are indebted to the ancient saint who divided into four Vedas and wrote the 18 Puranas, the Mahabharata, and Srimad Bhagavata. Vyasa also taught Dattatreya who is mentioned as the Guru of gurus.
Significance
On this day all the spiritual people and devotees worship Vyasa mainly in the honor of divine personage and all the disciples give a Puja for their respective Preceptor or the guru Devs. For farmers, this day is having more significance. The setting of much-needed rain as the advent of cool showers gives good fresh life in paddy fields. Also, many believe this day is good for starting their spiritual classes. The spiritual seekers intensify their spiritual Sadhana on this day.
The period Chaturmas which is of four months begins from this day. In the early past wandering spiritual gurus and their disciples used to settle at a place for studying and discourse in Brahma sutras which is composed by Vyasa and engage them in the Vedantic lessons.
