Legends of Bhai Dooj

 

Every festival has its own story. This story is always based on some mythological concept. Not even this, the Indian society has maximum faith in cultivating / establishing relations and in maintaining these relations for whole life and even after one generation, the next coming generation tries its best to keep such relations maintained. In the Indian society a lady is not only a lady. She is mother, sister and wife. Similarly a man is not only a man. He is brother, friend, son father , husband and any one else not only a body. All such relations make a family and so many families make the society. And in this way chain goes on growing. To make life meaningful and conscious, the festivals are celebrated. In this chain of festivals Bhai Dooj is celebrated to strengthen the bond of love and affection between brother and sister. As told earlier every festival has some legends as legends are taken as the backbone of festivals. Legends describe how the festival was celebrated for the first time and how it became a tradition. The legends are of great value in cultivating interest in the younger generations towards festivals.

 

These are also helpful in imparting values of great Indian festivals to the society. This Bhai Dooj festival is also having so many interesting legends, which lay stress on the significance of the sacred relationship between brother and sister. A few out of those are given below. Accordingly rituals performed on this festival vary / differ from society to society as India has so many societies within it.