Makar Sankranti Quotes

Makar Sankranthi is the most popular festival in north India, which is celebrated in different parts of the country and also in some other parts of the world where a major chunk of Hindu population resides. In Tamil Nadu this is known as Pongal, in Assam it is well known as Bhogali Bihu, in Punjab, it is well known as Lohiri, in Gujarat and Rajasthan, it is known as Uttararayan.

Makar sankranti festival is also celebrated in Nepal as Maghe Sakrati or Maghi, in Thailand as Songkran and in Myanmar as Thingyan. It is mainly the harvest festival of all the South East Asian Countries. Mark Sankranti marks the beginning of the harvest season for the farmers of Indian Sub-Continent.

Makar Sankranti Sayings

Makar Sankranti is one of the most promising occasions for the Hindus, and is celebrated in almost all parts of the country in myriad cultural forms, with great devotion, fervour & gaiety. It is a harvest festival. Makar Sankranti is possibly the only Indian festival whose date always falls on the same day every year i.e. the 14th of January.

Makar Sankranti is the day when the wonderful Sun-God begins its ascendancy and entry into the Northern Hemisphere and thus it signifies an event wherein the Sun-God seems to remind their children that 'Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya', may you go higher & higher, to more & more Light and never to Darkness.

To Hindus, the Sun stands for knowledge, religious light and wisdom. Makar Sankranti indicates that we should turn away from the darkness of delusion in which we live, and begin to enjoy a new life with bright light within us to shine brighter and brighter. We should gradually begin to grow in purity, wisdom, and knowledge, even as the Sun does from the Day of Makar Sankranti.