Welcome to the podcast, Sadguru of Mystics and Mistakes. Sadguru, what is the significance of the Makar-Sankranti or Pungal Festival?

Between 13th and 17th of January is called Makara-Sankranti or the Pungal.

In this Pungal there are various types.

There is what is called as bogey which is celebrated and Lord Indra is supposed to be the

God who brings rain and thunder and lightning.

So celebrations are done in his name and houses are clean and washed and decorated and

They are kind of reconsecrated for the new year by using certain materials like

mango leaves and a certain amount of the first cut of the paddy crop that has come

to enhance the life vibrance in this and the bogey always brings out all the unnecessary things in one's home.

This should also be done with one's life that all the unnecessary things

should be gotten rid of in this season so that life begins fresh. So this tradition has not only agricultural undertones to it, there is a celestial undertone

to it and a spiritual undertone to it and this is because the Yogis practiced a certain thing the common

people took it up in a different way as it's relevant to themselves.

Makar is most important for the Yogis because they all make a themselves. people who are in family and normal situations they also make a fresh attempt in

whatever they are doing in their lives so this is the beginning of a new cycle

that we have completed 27 nakchatras or 108 padas around the sun and it's a new beginning and a new cycle.

The Pungal celebrations itself are broken into four forms. There is

bogey and then there is Mart to Pungal that is honoring all the animals which

play an important role in making the agriculture process happen.

Well today it's all machines which have come in, but you can't grow food out of just machines.

If you do not put the animal... but you can't grow food out of just machines.

If you do not put the animal waste into the land,

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