Ravivar Vrat Katha

Ravivar vrat Katha

Sunday is dedicated to God Sun which denotes Power or Tej. Those devotees who perform the fast of Ravivar is always free from every disease. Not jut only this, his or her enemies also decreases or get victory over their enemies and increase name and fame.

Rule of Ravivar Vrat

On the fast of Ravivar, devotees should wake up before sunrise, take a bath and wear clean clothes. Do worship and give ardhya to the Sun. But remember that you can take meal at the end of the day if Sun is in the sky. If due to any reason you cannot take meal in time then take a meal in the next day after the worship of the Sun. In this fast oil and salt is prohibited so you have to eat only sweet meal.

Katha of Ravivar Vrat

In the ancient time, an old lady was living in a town. She performs the fast of God Sun. She always wakes up early in the morning, clear her house and plastering her house by the dung of the cow and worshipped the God Sun. According to the rule of the Ravivar Vrat she took her meal after offering it to God Sun.  She lived a joyful life. That old lady used to gather cow dung from her neighbour.

The wife of her neighbour was jealous to see her happiness so one day she tied her cow in the cow house. Due to this, that old lady could not plaster her house and did not cook the food because of she did not offer food to the deity Sun. The next day she made food and offer it to the God Sun. The God Sun pleased with her and appeared in front of her in the dream. He said, I am pleased to see your hard worship so I give you a cow that gives you everything according to your demand. When that old lady wakes up she saw that a calf was present at her door she arranged food and water for it. After that, the old lady becomes rich and live her life happily.

One day the neighbor lady saw the cow of the old lady, she noticed that the cow dung was gold. She felt jealous of the old lady and change the ordinary dung with gold dung. The God Sun observes the cheating of the neighour lady and ordered to the thunder and rain to go to the earth. That old lady saw the bad weather so she tied her cow in the cow house then she saw that her cow give gold dung and become aware about the cheating of the neighbor lady. After this incident that old lady used to tie her cow in the cow house so the neighbor lady could not exchange the gold dung with ordinary dung.

When she becomes frustrated she go the king and told him the divineness of the cow. The king was greedy so he ordered his soldiers to keep that cow in his palace. On the order of the king, soldiers forcefully tied that cow and carry it in the palace of the king. The old lady cried and weeping for the safety of the cow and prayed to the God Sun to keep safe that cow. God Sun accepted her request and ordered to the king to return that cow to the old lady in his dream. When the king wakes up he became threatened and see the palace is full of cow dung so he ordered to his soldiers to return that cow to the old lady with great respect and also give her money and jewelry.