Janmashtami Fervour Sweeps Uttar Pradesh as Devotees Flock to Ayodhya and Vrindavan

Janmashtami Fervour Sweeps Uttar Pradesh

Janmashtami Fervour Sweeps: As for now, the UPites are still in the festive spirit which was triggered by the Ram Temple consecration that happened in the earlier part of the year, and there are elaborate plans to celebrate Janmashtami in Ayodhya also.

While devotees are visiting temples from Vrindavan to Ayodhya and back, preparing for the shot Janmashtami festival, or shopping, UP is ready for the festival.

“For us, it was temple run just before the biggest day as a Lord Krishna devotee. My wife and sister-in-law have waited for months to travel to Ayodhya to visit the Ram Temple. So, it was a well-planned temple trip to Ayodhya, Mathura and Vrindavan.”

“This way, we managed to offer our prayers to both the avatars of Lord Vishnu – Ram and Krishna. All these cities are painted in colours of love and devotion. We are lucky to be able to witness something like this,” says assistant professor Rajesh Sharma, who travelled with his wife, Kumkum and sister-in-law, Kumud.

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For Devendra K Sharma, an official at a private university, one visit to some sacred place is mandatory, "This is my third visit to Vrindavan and Mathura. These places ooze serenity and bliss. I can't express how happy I felt when I was in Vrindavan. We, in fact, extended our trip and will also travel to Ayodhya,” he says.

Many are still yet to visit the new temple in Ayodhya, and some are interlinking visits and purchases, as Vinaya Rastogi of BD Jewellers in Alambagh pointed out.

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He added, “As we are situated near the airport and railway station, the devotees who are enroute to either Ayodhya or Vrindavan are stopping for their token buy. A lady bought Ramji silver coins for Ayodhya and bought a silver cradle for Laddoo Gopal we term it as a divine connect.”

UP president of All India Jewellers Federation, Vinod Maheswari from Vinod Jewellers says, “The difference between the two deities' shringhar accessories is minor if I may say so, Ram Lalla in Ayodhya is the child aspect of the divine and Laddoo Gopal is a toddler phase of Krishna.”

“The difference lies for Lord Krishna it’s bansuri and mor pankhi mukut and for Lord Ram, it’s dhanush and plain crown, but the favourite metal remains same that is silver as well as the rest of the ornaments are just the same, so the similarity is quite apparent.”

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