Chatth Puja was performed by the Bihar diaspora in Bangkok, Thailand. with great enthusiasm traditionally and in maximum purity with the scarce resources available abroad.
Chatth Pooja was performed by the Bihar diaspora in Bangkok, Thailand alike India with great enthusiasm traditionally and in maximum purity with the scarce resources available abroad.
It is believed that the Chhath Pooja rituals pave the way for calmness in mind.
The Chhath Pooja was performed with enthusiasm as part of a four-day festival across India with devout Hindus offering prayer and arghya (libation of water) to the solar deity Surya. Most of the festivals in India and the time of the year they are celebrated are well thought and have scientific reasons for the wellness of the human body and mind. The Chhath Pooja is a festival dedicated to the Sun God, celebrated mainly in Northern India, including Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. In the last few years, it is also being celebrated in Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Mumbai, Delhi, Nepal, Mauratius and other parts of the world.
The pooja is performed to seek blessings from Surya to live longer, be healthy and prosper all through life. Hindu people believe that early sunlight helps to cure many diseases and is an excellent source of healing too.
Chhath literally means “Six” and the festival starts just after the “Govardhan Puja,” completing on the seventh day (Saptami) in the month of Kartik (falling between October and November).
As per yoga philosophy, the Chatth Puja process is divided into six stages of the Conscious Cosmic Solar Energy Infusion Technique: Fasting, which leads to detoxifying the mind, body, and soul. Standing in a river or a water body with half the body submerged helps the psychic energy (Prana) to flow up the psychic channel in the spine (Sushumna).
The cosmic solar energy goes into the devotee’s pituitary, pineal, and hypothalamus glands through optic nerves and the retina. In the 4th stage, the activation process of the tri-glandular complex takes place.
Besides, a division in the spine transforms the body into a cosmic powerhouse and awakens the latent psychic energy often called no In the 6th stage, the body of a devotee becomes a channel that recycles, conducts, and transmits the energy in the whole universe.
It is believed that the Chhath Puja rituals pave the way for calmness in mind, and the negative responses like jealousy and anger are decreased.