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Radha Ashtami 2025 Date: The fast of Radha Ashtami dedicated to Radha Rani is celebrated every year 15 days after Shri Krishna Janmashtami. Let us tell you, according to the almanac, this year the fast of Radha Ashtami will be celebrated on August 31, 2025 Sunday.

According to Hindu scriptures, worship of Lord Krishna is considered incomplete without the worship of Radha Rani. Like Krishna Janmashtami, the festival of ‘Radha Ashtami’ is celebrated with great pomp across the country.

Radha Ashtami is the second largest festival for Krishna devotees after Janmashtami. On this day, Radha celebrates Radha Rani’s day by law. Special worship of Lord Krishna with Radha is performed in Shri Krishna temples.

If you are fasting for Radha Ashtami for the first time, then during this time, take care of some rules so that your fast can be completed without which obstacle.

For the first time, Radha is fasting for Ashtami, so keep these things in mind:

Spiritual scholars say that after getting up early in the morning on the day of Radha Ashtami fast, after bathing and meditating, one should wear clean clothes and after that the Sun should provide water to the god.

After doing this, put a red or yellow cloth at a post in the northeast and it should be installed on a statue or photo of Radha Rani.

After this, coconut should be installed in the middle of the urn by placing water, coin and mango leaf in a urn made of clay or copper.

After doing this, anoint Radha Rani with Panchamrit and offer smell, flowers, incense, lamps, sandalwood etc.

During the puja, you must offer 16 makeup to Radha Rani. After this, worship Shri Krishna and offer bhog.

During the puja, keep chanting the mantras of Shri Krishna and Radha Rani and perform the puja with Aarti at the end of the puja.

What is the glory of Radhashtami

Radhashtami fast has great importance in Hinduism. The birth anniversary of Radha ji is celebrated on the day of Radhashtami. It is said that fasting of ‘Radhashtami’ gives freedom from all sins. Women get a boon of unbroken good fortune. There is happiness and prosperity in the house. Lakshmi resides in the family.

Lord Krishna is the presiding deity of Radha ji, while Radha ji is dear to Shri Krishna with his life. Shri Krishna himself, who is called Radharaman, says that there is no one like Radha, not even crores of Mahalakshmi.

There is only an unintelligent love between Radha and Shri Krishna, due to which the devotees have been chanting Radhakrishna Radhakrishna for ages. It is said that Radha is the soul of Lord Krishna. Fasting Radha Ashtami fulfills all the wishes of a person. This fast is also observed for the happy life of the child.