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It is the end of the month of Chaith and I've been working on a chaiti geet. I've finally completed it and wanted to share it. (I could use some feedback)

Hope you guys enjoy it!

And it is written from the perspective of Urmila when her husband, Lakshman, decides to go on exile with Siya Ram.

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🌙 उर्मिला के बिरहा - चैती ✨

सिया-राम के मिला बनबास, हो रामा

सइयाँ मोर जइहे।

सिया-राम के मिला बनबास, हो रामा

पिया मोर जइहे।

सिया-राम के मिला बनबास, हो रामा

सइयाँ मोर जइहे।

बनवा में का खइहे,

बनवा में का पहिरीहे?

बनवा में का खइहे,

बनवा में का पहिरीहे?

बनवा में हमके ना भुलावे, हो रामा,

बनवा में हमके ना भुलावे, हो रामा,

बनवा में हमके ना भुलावे, हो रामा,

सइयाँ मोर जइहे।

सिया-राम के मिला बनबास, हो रामा

सइयाँ मोर जइहे।

होत भोर, महल से निकलिहें,

होत भोर, महल से निकलिहें।

होत भोर, महल से निकलिहें,

होत भोर, महल से निकलिहें।

जाने फिर कब अइहैं, हो रामा,

जाने फिर कब अइहैं, हो रामा,

जाने फिर कब अइहैं, हो रामा,

सइयाँ मोर जइहे।

सिया-राम के मिला बनबास, हो रामा

सइयाँ मोर जइहे।

अँगना मोर सूना रहि जइहे,

सेजिया मोर सूना हो जइहे।

अँगना मोर सूना रहि जइहे,

सेजिया मोर सूना हो जइहे।

कब तक ले ताकब उनकर रहिया, हो रामा,

कब तक ले ताकब उनकर रहिया, हो रामा,

कब तक ले ताकब उनकर रहिया, हो रामा,

सइयाँ मोर जइहे।

सिया-राम के मिला बनबास, हो रामा

सइयाँ मोर जइहे।

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Feel free to ask me for the translations if you need.

|| ॐ महालक्ष्मिच विद्महे विष्णुपत्नीच धीमहि तन्नो लक्ष्मी प्रचोदयात् ||

☀ SHRI LAKSHMI DEVI ॐ ☀

Sharing a Chaiti geet dedicated to Mahadev Bholenath -

Enjoy!!

The amount of मटका-s and सुराही-s I've broken as a kid and as a teen in summers is insane. I don't know how my parents found the courage to forgive me each time. We used to buy it in UP during summer vacation but never were able to carry it to Mumbai. All thanks to me.

सुराही-s have those intricate details and my mother is fond of such pottery. And I've broken multiple. It's the American equivalent of breaking your mother's favourite vase or favourite china dish

matke ka paani has no right to be so goddamn delicious!

Yeah I've attended a few weddings in the last few years after Covid on both sides of my parents. Although the colours of the clothes have remained the same, it still feels dull. Why?

Because the biyaah geets — baraat geet, duar puja geet, gaari geet —have lately been replaced by DJ/songs being played on speakers instead of the womenfolk singing those songs in Awadhi.

Does anybody else also think that our weddings are also getting white washed? Like it used to be all bold and colourful with the bride and groom being in mostly red. Now you see it started with a lil toning down to pinks and dull pastels and now some are almost white. It’s almost like a western wedding just instead of a white gown there’s a white lehnga and sherwani. I’m not exactly saying that there’s anything wrong with it but doesn’t it feel like weddings are losing their authenticity?

Just an opinion, don’t go on attacking me.

को नहि जानत है जग में कपि

संकट मोचन नाम तिहारो

Veer Hanuman

Divine🤌🏼✨

Them>>>

श्री राम नवमी

I wanted to share some lokgeet.

Well I already did a blogpost on Chaiti geet. Didn't get a chance to do one for Sohar. A sohar geet is sung to celebrate the birth of a child. And how can we not have a sohar for our beloved Shri Ram's janm, whose birth made Awadh pure and divine.

Here are 2 sohar geet -

A chaiti geet -

Please enjoy!!

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शुभ रामनवमी 🪷

श्रीराम राम रघुनन्दन राम राम । श्रीराम राम भरताग्रज राम राम । श्रीराम राम रणकर्कश राम राम । श्रीराम राम शरणं भव राम राम ॥

Rama who is the delight of the Raghus । Rama who is elder brother of Bharata । Rama who is tormentor of his enemies । I come under refuge of God Rama.

श्रीरामचन्द्रचरणौ मनसा स्मरामि । श्रीरामचन्द्रचरणौ वचसा गृणामि । श्रीरामचन्द्रचरणौ शिरसा नमामि । श्रीरामचन्द्रचरणौ शरणं प्रपद्ये ॥

I remember the feet of Sri Ramachandra in my mind । I praise the feet of Sri Ramachandra by my speech । I salut the feet of Sri Ramachandra by bowing down my head । I take refuge on the feet of Sri Ramachandra by bowing myself down.

श्री राम जन्म

Shri Ram Janm

रामाय रामभद्राय रामचंद्राय वेधसे । 

रघुनाथाय नाथाय सीताया: पतये नम: ॥

श्रीराम राम रघुनन्दन राम राम । श्रीराम राम भरताग्रज राम राम ।

श्रीराम राम रणकर्कश राम राम । श्रीराम राम शरणं भव राम राम ॥

श्रीरामचन्द्रचरणौ मनसा स्मरामि । श्रीरामचन्द्रचरणौ वचसा गृणामि ।

श्रीरामचन्द्रचरणौ शिरसा नमामि । श्रीरामचन्द्रचरणौ शरणं प्रपद्ये ॥

चैती गीत

Let's talk about Chaiti (चैती)

It is a folk song genre sung in Awadhi and Bhojpuri in eastern Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Nepal and neighbouring areas.

Chaiti is specifically sung during the month of चैत्र—or as we call it in Awadhi, चैत—where it gets its name from. The most important aspect of a chaiti for me is the usage of रामा. I have never heard of a chaiti without it.

There are devotional songs—especially sung during राम नवमी and चैत्र नवरात्र. There are songs about the season itself—the koel’s call, the flowers that blossom in spring, and mango trees, the changing weather. And then there are the songs of yearning (बिरहा), sung by a बिरहन, a woman in longing. Why? Because spring is here, but the one she wants to experience it with is not.

Like this one here by the brilliant Girija Devi ji -

Yamuna Chhath

यमुना छठ

I went to Vrindavan+Mathura in July, 2023 with my sisters. This is at Vishram Ghat, Mathura, we went here after visiting the Dwarkadhish temple.

Lord Vishnu on a Lotus A plenary portion of the Personality of Godhead known as the Supersoul resides within the body in the region of the heart. His four hands carry a lotus, a wheel of a chariot, a conchshell and a club. His mouth expresses happiness and His eyes are like the petals of a lotus flower. He wears yellowish garments and gold ornaments set with jewels. On His chest is the Kaustubha gem, and His torso is garlanded with fresh flower #gita #bhagavadgita #gitahindi #krishna #devotion #bhakti #iskcon #vaishnav

Oh I wish I had the skills to create such art. This is majestic!!🪷

Shubh Chaitra Navratri and a very auspicious Hindu New Year🌸🌸

चैत्र नवरात्रि

सर्वमङ्गलमाङ्गल्ये शिवे सर्वार्थसाधिके ।

शरण्ये त्र्यम्बके गौरि नारायणि नमोऽस्तु ते ॥

the love of my life, the queen of my heart, the very essence of my being, my salvation, my dearest, my beloved, may each breath comes out of me be an offering to your lotus feet.

I saw a post by one of my mutuals talking about dhoti. But I can't find it now. I just wanted to reblog it to say that I've heard many relatives and even my mother call a saree dhoti while talking in awadhi.

Which reminds me of this one very wholesome moment with my (now late) grandmother.

I was 5years old. And like every other summer vacation, we were visiting our grandparents in uttar pradesh. My parents had bought a really simple beautiful saree for my dadi. And the second day of us being there, my parents and I were sitting with my dadi and my parents told her that I had chosen and bought a saree for her (which was a lie but idk why my parents do that to involve me like all the time to show that I do think about all this). And my dadi got so happy saying "अरे हमार भैया हमरे खातिर धोती लाये अहेन? कहाँ बा?" So my mother sent me to go get it, because "i had picked it". But I replied to my mother "but hum toh dhoti laaye hi nahi hai. hum toh saree leke aaye hai dadi ke liye. dadi ko dhoti kyu chahiye? dadi dhoti pehente ha?". My mother replied didn't explain this to me. She just laughed and went with me to bring the saree and we gave it to daadi.

✨️ Saraswati devotional moodboard ✨️

UTTAR PRADESH ✨

1 st and 6th photo credit: @desikanya ©️

A shivling and nandi ji in the background 🤌🏼✨

Maa Parvati playing with her two sons🌸

Har Har Mahadev 🙏🕉🙂

Shiva and Parvati

शीतला सप्तमी

My family celebrates Sheetla Saptami every year twice. Once in the month of Chaitra (चैत in Awadhi) and then in the month of Shravan (सावन in Awadhi)

My mother has to observe a fast on Saptami and do a pooja before dawn the next day

Hibiscus flowers, doob grass and paan leaves are offered to Mata

There are offerings made, which is completely satvic. There is a puri, a batasa(बतासा), a jaggery filled gujiya (गुजिया), few uncooked soaked chana, a small amount of dahi, a dallop of lapsi(लपसी prepared from flour and jaggery), and a clove(लौंग)

A diya is to be lit and kept on a rice filled earthen bowl called कोसा in Awadhi. Which is kept on a kalash filled with water and adorned with mango leaves

ध्यायामि शीतलां देवीं, रासभस्थां दिगम्बराम् ।

मार्जनी-कलशोपेतां शूर्पालङ्कृत-मस्तकाम् ॥

Om Shreem Shriye Namah

thank u Lakshmi for visiting even if I take forever to answer the door, I will hold no fear in my heart with your blessings

THE TEN MAHAVIDYAS AND THEIR MANTRAS

So I just found this out about Shiv Charcha. So "charcha" here doesn't just mean discussion. It could be a simple gathering in the name of Shiv. Where bhajans and kirtans are performed to praise the deity. Which was exactly what was happening yesterday.

We have a family from UP doing "Shiv charcha" today and I can't get enough of it🥰😇

They've called all families in our society who are from UP and everyone's singing bhajans and kirtans in bhojpuri and awadhi. By everyone, I mean, it's all the women. My mother's also there. And hearing it all feels so good. It is because it's quite rare that this kind of event happens. And yeah connecting to the language is an added benefit here.

Does anyone know what a "Shiv charcha" is though?

We have a family from UP doing "Shiv charcha" today and I can't get enough of it🥰😇

They've called all families in our society who are from UP and everyone's singing bhajans and kirtans in bhojpuri and awadhi. By everyone, I mean, it's all the women. My mother's also there. And hearing it all feels so good. It is because it's quite rare that this kind of event happens. And yeah connecting to the language is an added benefit here.

Does anyone know what a "Shiv charcha" is though?

Please keep adding to this list if you can think of any.

Like I just thought of one now.

Mata Saraswati would really feel bad when someone gets made fun of their voice or of their speech impairments.

I have been thinking about this and realised that we don't actually have a deva or devi for beauty. People think it is Mata Lakshmi but it's not true. None of her Ashtalakshmi forms also have her represent beauty. Mata

The sibling pairs have different skin colours — Vishnu-Parvati are dark skinned, Shiv-Saraswati are fair skinned, Brahma-Lakshmi are golden skinned — and all of them are called beautiful.

So where does this concept of beauty even come from? That fair is beautiful and dark skinned is not? Does it come from the west? From goddesses like Aphrodite, Venus or Freya? Or were they also made to represent beauty in the modern world to suit white people's beauty standards?

Yes, so astronomically/astrologically(it's the same in our religion anyway), whenever the Sun passes through the same house as Rahu, there's a Solar eclipse, given the moon is positioned right opposite this conjunction, which means it is a new moon.

Similarly, a lunar eclipse is when Moon is in conjunction with Ketu, given that Sun is right opposite this conjunction. Which means it is a full moon.

And this year in March, we have both Solar and Lunar eclipse happening. Rahu is in Pisces, and Ketu is in Virgo. On March 13, it was a full moon, the Moon is in conjunction with Ketu. And so that's when a Lunar eclipse happened. On March 29, Sun is in conjunction with Rahu. So that's when the solar eclipse will happen.

Hope that helps.

So no one ever told me about Ram ji roasting the moon and listing it faults because it's just not as beautiful as Maa Sita after looking at her once in the gardens? No one?

And then he just returned to his Guru like nothing happened? As if he didn't just talk to the moon and insult it?

I generally prefer Valmiki Ramayan but the Balkand in Ramcharitmanas is pure gold.