Janai Purnima is a sacred thread festival. On this day, Hindu men, especially the Brahmins and Chettris perform their annual change of Janai and all who celebrates this festival put a sacred thread around their wrist.
Janai is a cotton string worn across the chest by Hindu male. This thread is only given to males during a long and inpressive religious ceremony called Bratabandhan.The Janai initiates the boy into manhood and commands them to devotedly follow the religion and the path of truth.The Janai must be worn every day of their lives after they listen their mantra from the guru during the Bartabandha. Janai is regarded as symbol of body, speech and mind, and when the knots are tied the person wearing it is supposed to gain complete control over each of them.
In this day we also eat kwati. As a belief that all our sickness will go away.
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