Maha Kumbh Mela 2025: 1100 Priests to perform Maha Yajna for Gau Mata’s national recognition

Uttar Pradesh: At the 2025 Prayagraj Kumbh Mela, the very best Maha Yajna (sacred fire ritual) will be organized to honour ‘Gau Mata’ and push for her recognition because the Nationwide Mother of India. The sacred ritual, aimed at eradicating the educate of cow slaughter within the country, will draw shut station within the camp of Jyotish Peethadhishwar Jagadguru Shankaracharya Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati. This would be the very best Yajna camp at the Kumbh Mela plan, inspiring 1100 monks performing day-to-day Yajnas for an complete month.

The Yajna will be performed in 324 kunds (sacred fire pits), organized in a nine-shikhara formation (nine peaks), symbolizing non secular elevation and solidarity. Every kund can maintain three monks, meaning an complete of 1100 monks will have interaction within the ritual for nine hours day-to-day. The principle goal of the Yajna is to lift awareness about cow safety and acquire in contact with for the cow to be granted the station of Nationwide Mother.

Describing the explanation of this Yajna, Mukundanand Brahmachari acknowledged, “Lord Shri Ram and Lord Krishna withhold the very best significance in our lives, and of their lives, ‘Gau Mata’ holds the very best significance. In our country, cows are being slaughtered, and this educate should terminate. They should be given the very best admire.” He extra elaborated that the work for this Yajna has been underway for over a month, with 50 volunteers working day-to-day to create the Yajna Mandap (ritual pavilion). As of now, the enchancment of the kunds is 75% complete.

Brahmachari additionally shared that 35 breeds of indigenous cows will be housed within the camp, with Gaushalas (cow shelters) being constructed for them. “Our cow protectors from across the country, who're bringing these indigenous cows for the Lord, maintain already predicament out and should rapidly advance at the camp,” he added.
Meanwhile, with handiest one week left for the Maha Kumbh Mela, hundreds of devotees alongside with sadhus and seers from across India and the area maintain began to advance in Prayagraj. On this extensive non secular gathering, Naga sadhus had been charming of us with their special apparel and Hatha yoga educate.

Among them, Naga Sadhu Pramod Giri Maharaj has severely change a subject of dialogue at the Mahakumbh Mela. He performs a mighty ritual every morning at 4:00 am, bathing with 61 pots of chilly water irrespective of the biting chilly when most of us decide on to have indoors true thru such freezing early hours. Pramod Giri Maharaj follows this by applying ash to his body and sitting by the sacred fire for meditation. The distinguished part is that the number of pots he uses increases day-to-day.

The Mahakumbh held as soon as every 12 years, is scheduled to commence up on January 13 and blueprint on February 26 in Prayagraj. Over forty five crore devotees are expected to relieve the match. In some unspecified time in the future of the Mahakumbh, devotees will bag at the Sangam, the confluence of the Ganga, Yamuna, and Saraswati rivers, to draw shut a holy dip believed to absolve sins and grant moksha (liberation).