Vat Savitri Vrat 2025: Complete Puja Guide, Significance, Rituals, and Materials for Married Women

Complete Guide to Vat Savitri Vrat 2025: Puja Method, Significance, Materials, and Rituals for Married Women

The vat Savitri Vrat is an invaluable fasting tradition among married Hindu women, especially of northern India. This sacred fast, dedicated to Goddess Savitri, an epitome of devotion and fidelity, is observed by married women to pray for their husbands’ long life, happiness, and prosperity. In 2025, Vat Savitri Vrat will be observed on 26 May, a Monday falling on the Amavasya (new moon) of the Jyeshtha month as per the Hindu calendar. The fast is the essence of Indian traditions, and married women have embraced it through the ages.

The essence of Vat Savitri is in that, by keeping the fast and offering prayers to the Banyan tree (Vat Vriksha), the woman seeks divine blessings to protect her husband from untimely death and take care of him all through life. This is a fast marked by reverence, rituals, and telling stories that inspire and celebrate the legend of Savitri and Satyavan- a devoted wife who outsmarts Yama, the god of death, and gets the life of her husband back.

For the new bride who wants to keep the Vat Savitri Vrat for the first time, she must know the proper way of worship along with the required puja materials and the customary rules so that it is done correctly with full spirit and dedication.

Vat Savitri Vrat Puja Samagri (Worship Materials)
The puja requires various sacred articles, each with its own symbolic meaning. Key puja items are:
• Banyan fruit and a branch of the Banyan tree (Vat Vriksha)
• Bamboo fan
• Fresh fruits and flowers
• Raksha Sutra
• Sindoor, Kumkum, Roli, and Sandalwood paste
• Wedding accessories to symbolize marital bliss
• Betel leaves (paan), betel nuts, and sweets like batasha
• One and a quarter meter of new cloth (traditionally used during rituals)
• Incense sticks, perfume, and a lamp (diya)
• Coconut, soaked gram (chana), peanuts, puri, and jaggery for offerings
• A statue or picture of Savitri and Satyavan
• A Vat Savitri Vrat Katha book for reading the legend during the puja
• A clean seat or mat to sit on during the ritual

Vat Savitri Vrat Puja Method and Rituals
The day of the fast starts with an early ritual bath and wearing of a new sari or clean traditional outfit. After dressing up, women light the lamp in the altar room and take an oath to keep fast with complete faith and devotion. The collected puja items are neatly arranged in a basket before proceeding to the nearest Banyan tree, being the center of worship.

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If a Banyan tree cannot be reached, devotees may worship a branch obtained from the tree, which has been planted in a pot in the premises of their homes. The puja starts with offerings of water poured onto the roots of the Banyan tree in respect, acknowledging the connection with nature and divinity. Close to the tree or branch, the picture or idol of Savitri and Satyavan is kept, the focal point for prayers.

Kumkum, Sindoor, fruits, flowers, sweets, and the rest are offered by women as ‘bhog’ to the tree and divine couple. This puja also involves the offering of Suhaag items that are symbolic of a married woman’s status. After placing the offerings, women circumambulate the Banyan tree seven times tying a raw cotton thread or Kalawa around the trunk, reaffirming the sacred marital bond and the protection it entails.

A highlight of the ritual is listening to or reciting the Vat Savitri Vrat Katha- the story of Savitri who in her undying love, courage saved her husband from the grip of death. This story fosters devotion, courage, and fidelity in married women.

The puja is closed with the Aarti ceremony in which the light is circled in front of the deity and the tree while praying for the husband’s long life and happiness. Some women may choose to break their fast after the puja, whereas others may fast till sunset according to family tradition.

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Significance of Vat Savitri Vrat
More than merely a religious fast, Vat Savitri Vrat signifies an affirmation of the sacred bond of marriage, as well as the commitment of a woman toward the protection of her husband’s welfare. It strengthens the bonds of marriage and seeks divine blessings for peace, prosperity, and long life of the married couple. Maintaining this fast, in the belief that it helps bring uninterrupted good fortune and spiritual merit to the family.
For married women, particularly newly-weds, to learn and enact the Vat Savitri Vrat in accordance with tradition provides every opportunity for honoring the unchanging principles of love, sacrifice, and devotion that Savitri so personifies.

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