Do You Know why we celebrate Janmastmi?

Janmastmi is among the most celebrated festival among Hindus across the world. We all know that Janmastmi is on 17^th August, but do we know the significance of it?

Let’s know the significance of Janmastmi, it goes back in decades when Shree. Krishna was born. Do you know why he had to take birth? Do you know why we Offer pooja to Shree Krishna? All this questions amalgamate to interesting facts of Shree Krishna.

So, let’s know about it in detail, Shree Krishna, the 8^th child of d incarnated in Mathura in kan’s prison.

Lord Krishna was born to free the earth from all kinds of evil and its sources. He was entitled to kill all the demons on this earth. He was born on the eighth day of Krishna Paksha in the month of Sravana

According to Hindu mythology, he was exchanged with the baby girl child of Yashodha and Nand. This was done to save him from the clutches of his maternal uncle Kansa who was determined to kill the Lord at the time of his birth. Hence, Kansa had also imprisoned his sister and brother-in-law. But eventually, Lord Krishna killed Kansa and saved Mathura.

He was fond of flute, the flute resembles freedom from all the evils, and here is the glimpse of that flute.

From then on, people celebrate every year birthday of the Lord. It is said that when the God was born, there was turmoil in the nature to symbolize the fury and turmoil in the city of Mathura as well as in every heart. This also signifies that Divine power had come on earth to relieve everyone. So, such is the significance of Janmashtami. The God even spread the message of kinship and fraternity. He stressed ‘karma’. He also advised Arjun during the battle of Mahabharata.