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Raksha bandhan celebrations 2025: Rakhi festival means the festival of unwavering love of brother and sister. Which is celebrated every year on the full moon of Sawan month. This year will be celebrated on 9 August. On this day, the sisters perform the aarti of their brother, apply their vaccines and tie a rakhi on their wrist and wish for their Mars.

Also, siblings promise that he will always protect her. But do you know how to celebrate this festival. There are many stories to many religions to history, which you must know about.

Who tied Rakhi first:

The story is to Krishna-Draupadi

According to the information received, the story of the beginning of Rakshabandhan is associated with the Mahabharata period, in which the episode between Lord Krishna and Draupadi is prominent. According to the legend, there is a story associated with the Mahabharata period that Lord Krishna considered Draupadi as his sister.

Let us tell you that Draupadi is considered one of the Panchkanyas. Once upon a time, when Lord Krishna gets hurt in the finger and bleeding. To stop this, Draupadi ripped the stain of her sari and tied a bandage on her finger.

Seeing this reverence and love of Draupadi, Lord Krishna had pledged to protect him and in the Kauravas’ gathering, Draupadi had saved his Draupadi’s shame by performing miracles at the time of rip. It is believed that since then the festival of Rakshabandhan has been celebrated, in which the sisters tie a raw thread on the brother’s wrist and the brothers promise to protect the flow in return.

Story of Goddess Lakshmi and Raja Bali

This story to Rakshabandhan is also prevalent, which is associated with Goddess Lakshmi and King Bali. Bali was an ardent devotee of Lord Vishnu and he promised him that he would protect him. For this, he remained as his gatekeeper.

Because of this, Goddess Lakshmi was living alone in Vaikuntha. To bring her husband back, she took the form of an ordinary woman and went to King Bali to take shelter. Bali gave him a place to stay in his palace. With the arrival of Goddess Lakshmi, happiness and prosperity started increasing in Bali’s life.

Then one day on the full moon day of Sawan month, Goddess Lakshmi tied a thread of yarn on the wrist of Bali and wished him a manner. Happy with this, Bali asked him to ask for his desire. On this, Goddess Lakshmi pointed to the gatekeeper and came out in her true form.

Lord Vishnu also took his real form. Bali fulfilled his promise and asked Lord Vishnu to go to Vaikuntha with Goddess Lakshmi. Since then the festival of Rakshabandhan started being celebrated.

Story of Rani Karnavati and Humayun

It is impossible to talk about Rakshabandhan and Rani Karnavati is not mentioned. Rani Karnavati was married to King Rana Sanga of Mewar. Rana Sanga Veeragati was received from the ruler of Gujarat, Bahadur Shah.

In such a situation, Rani Karnavati sent a rakhi in a letter to the Mughal ruler Humayun to save Mewar from defeat and prayed for assistance, but this Rakhi reached the king of Humayun for a long time. Because of this, by the time Humayun reached Mewar with his army, Rani Karnavati had taken Jauhar and Bahadur Shah had won.