Raksha Bandhan 2025: Know Date, Significance, Muhurat & More About The Auspicious Festival

Raksha Bandhan 2025: Know Date, Significance, Muhurat & More About The Auspicious Festival

Raksha Bandhan is a popular Hindu festival. It celebrates the bond between brothers and sisters. On this special day, sisters tie the sacred thread, or Rakhi, around their brothers' wrists, symbolising their love, care, and prayers for their brothers' well-being.

Sunanda SinghUpdated: Wednesday, July 23, 2025, 03:24 PM IST
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Raksha Bandhan is a popular Hindu festival. It celebrates the bond between brothers and sisters. On this special day, sisters tie the sacred thread, or Rakhi, around their brothers' wrists, symbolising their love, care, and prayers for their brothers' well-being. The timing of the Rakhi tying ceremony is considered very important in ensuring the rituals are performed during the most auspicious period, or muhurat, for the blessings of Raksha Bandhan to be fully realised.

Raksha Bandhan 2025: Subh Muhurat

Raksha Bandhan is celebrated in the Shravan month during the full moon day or Purnima day. The most auspicious time to tie Rakhi is during the Aparahna Muhurat, which falls in the late afternoon according to the Hindu division of the day. According to Drik Panchang, the Purnima tithi of Raksha Bandhan will be observed on August 8, 2025. .

Purnima Tithi Begins - 02:12 PM on August 08, 2025

Purnima Tithi Ends - 01:24 PM on August 09, 2025

This is the ideal time to celebrate the festival of Rakshabandhan.

What is Bhadra kaal?

According to the Hindu Panchang, Bhadra Kaal is a specific time period that is considered inauspicious. This time is considered not suitable for any auspicious activity. It is believed that tying Rakhi during Bhadra Kala is believed to brings special inauspicious results. Bhadra Kaal is a time when certain planetary positions take place.

Rakshabadhan celebrations

Rakshabandhan is celebrated throughout India, with varying traditions and customs in different regions. The auspicious festival is prominent in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Himachal Pradesh. Usually, Raksha Bandhan is marked by family gatherings, aartis (a ritual of worship), tilak (a ceremonial mark) on the forehead, and the tying of the rakhi. In Haryana, it is also called Salona.

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