Pitru Paksha Shraddh Purnima 8 Moksha Teerth Maha Deepdaan
Bhadrapada Purnima is the sacred day Pitru Paksha begins, when Yamaraja opens the gates of Pitru Lok and your ancestors descend closest to you, waiting to receive your remembrance. This Parvan Shraddh Purnima performs Maha Deepdaan across 8 Moksha Teerths!
Why Deepdaan on this Day?
Garuda Purana describes the ancestor's journey to Yamapuri as a path through great darkness. A Diya offered on Shraddh Purnima, at the very moment the gates of Pitru Lok are open widest is literal light on your ancestor's path, reaching them at the one moment in the year they are positioned to receive it fully. And when that Diya floats on a Moksha Teerth, it becomes a stream of your remembrance - your prayers, your love, and your light, flowing directly toward the ancestral realm.
Which are the 8 Sacred Rivers?
🔱Ganga Ghat, Haridwar: Bhagiratha performed generations of tapasya to bring the Ganga to earth for his 60,000 ancestors trapped between worlds. She came. They were freed. Your Diya enters the same waters that answered a son's impossible prayer.
🔱 Shipra Ghat, Ujjain Skanda Purana declares that Shraddh near Mahakal grants complete Tripti (total satisfaction) to all Pitrus. In the city where Mahakal alone is lord of time, what you offer today reaches across all time.
🔱 Vishram Ghat, Mathura: Worship on the Yamuna's banks frees your ancestor from Yamdanda, the punishment of Yamraj himself. This is the river that carried Krishna across in a storm the night he was born. There is devotion in its very current.
🔱 Triveni Sangam, Prayagraj: Tirthraj - the King of all Tirthas where Ganga, Yamuna, and Saraswati converge. Agni Purana says Punya earned here is Akshaya - it cannot decay or diminished, and is carried forward across every generation.
🔱 Assi Ghat, Kashi Kashi is the only city in creation where no soul departs without Moksha. The Kashi Khand declares Shiva himself whispers the Tarak Mantra into every departing soul's ear, granting instant liberation.
🔱 Saryu Ghat, Ayodhya: Lord Ram performed Shraddh for his ancestors on these very banks. And it was into the Saryu that he returned at the end of his earthly journey, willingly, completely, at peace. There is no holier precedent for the offering you make today.
🔱 Narmada Ghat, Omkareshwar: The Puranas declare: Narmada darshanat mukti - liberation by the mere sight of Maa Narmada. A Diya on her waters is an offering to the river that liberates by her very presence.
🔱 Falgu River, Gaya: The Garuda Purana says - one who has not performed Gaya Shraddh has not fulfilled their ancestral duty.
Through Sri Mandir, your Maha Deepdaan will be performed by temple Purohits at all 8 sacred Ghats on Shraddh Purnima itself, in your name. A video of the ritual reaches you within 24–48 hours.
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