{"id":2835,"date":"2018-11-08T13:16:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T13:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2018-11-08T13:16:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T13:16:31","slug":"the-festival-of-raksha-bandhana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/further-information-and-teaching-resources-secondary\/fact-sheets\/the-festival-of-raksha-bandhana\/","title":{"rendered":"THE FESTIVAL OF RAKSHA BANDHANA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Word document download: <a href=\"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/FCT-0405-.doc\">FCT-0405<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Raksha Bandhan falls on the purnima (full-moon day) of the month of Shravana. It is sometimes called Rakhi Purnima (in Western India) and Saloni (in the north).<\/li>\n<li>By the western calendar, Raksha Bandhan usually falls sometime in August.<\/li>\n<li>The central theme of the festival is brotherly protection.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Raksha\u2019 means \u2018protection\u2019, and \u2018bandhan\u2019 means to tie. The common practice is for sisters to tie a \u2018rakhi\u2019 on the right wrist of their brothers, or other close male relatives.<\/li>\n<li>The rakhi is a silk bracelet decorated with a bauble of silk or tinsel. They are of different colours, but red is often considered most auspicious.<\/li>\n<li>In return for the rakhi, brothers offer their sisters a small gift, usually in cash, and promise to protect them.<\/li>\n<li>Some say the ritual goes back to the initiation ceremony when the guru awarded the sacred thread, but also tied a red thread around the disciple\u2019s right wrist. Today many rituals involve this procedure, with the tying of the thread symbolising the vow and commitment to complete the ceremony.<\/li>\n<li>This festival also marks the day when Brahmins (and sometimes other members of the \u2018twice-born\u2019 classes) renew their sacred threads, discarding the old ones. This day may go by the name, \u2018Shravani\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>In earlier times, the festival was not just for sisters. Even today, the head of the household sometimes performs the ceremony.<\/li>\n<li>The festival is often associated with King Bali, well known for his charitable disposition. Another story relates how Indra was protected by a rakhi when fighting with the other Devas (gods) against the Asuras (demons).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word document download: FCT-0405 Raksha Bandhan falls on the purnima (full-moon day) of the month of Shravana. It is sometimes called Rakhi Purnima (in Western India) and Saloni (in the north). By the western calendar, Raksha Bandhan usually falls sometime in August. The central theme of the festival is brotherly protection. \u2018Raksha\u2019 means \u2018protection\u2019, and [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[302,298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fact-sheets-further-information-and-teaching-resources-primary","category-fact-sheets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2837,"href":"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions\/2837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskconeducationalservices.org\/HoH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}