Teej is the day when Married women do 24-hour nirjala fasting see from my vision.

Teej is celebrated just before the first day of Ganesh Chaturthi. Married women do 24-hour nirjala fasting (without water or fruit) for the wellness of their spouse and their married lifeTeej is an unique festival for Hindu women. It takes place in August or early September.It celebrates the arrival of monsoon after a season of oppressive heat.

"Teej" is a small red insect that comes out of the soil during rains. It is celebrated for marital bliss, well-being of spouse and children and purification of own body and soul.The festival is a three-day-long celebration that combines sumptuous feasts as well as rigid fasting. North Indian women of Rajashtan, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Bihar, are mainly celebrates this festival.In this Festival Women worship of Goddess Parvati with Lort Shiva for happy and long marriage life. During Teej, swing ropes on the courtyards decorated with flowers are a common sight. Newly married girls return to their parent’s home, receiving clothes from their parents. In this occasion rural women buy new bangles, bindis bead-necklaces and having mouth-watering dishes.Rituals of Teej: Women undergo fasts; sing folk songs and dance in the name of Goddess Parvati. It is a belief that unmarried women fasting will luckily find a suitable husband. Fasting married women will also find their husband more faithful and bonds of love strengthened.

History of Teej: Teej Festival symbolized reunion of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati. Teej teaches us the sacrifice of wife to win the heart of husband.It is said that Parvati reborn and went through stringent fasting for 108 long years to prove her dedication, devotion and unconditional love towards Lord Shiva. Finally, 108 years of long sacrifice paid off and Lord Shiva accepted her as his wife. Till today, the festival of Teej is celebrated to honor the devotion of Goddess Parvati – popularly known as TEEJ MATA. On this day, both married and unmarried women seek her blessings for their happy marital life. Teej Amongst the Baniya Community: Teej is an important festival amongst the baniya and marwari community. In this area women are also given bangles and bindis. Swings are also put on trees for the entertainment of young girls. Unlike the other states and communities amongst the baniyas and marwaris, the festival is meant as a celebration for women especially young girls. Girls of the house are given new clothes. A special and fun lunch is organized by the women of the house for the women in the house. It is the traditional women's day of the community. It is customary for mothers-in-law to give the newly married daughter-in-law a piece of jewellery on her first teej after marriage.

Traditionally daughters-in-law would go to their mothers house for teej and come back after Rakhi, in this way they would spend about 10 days of the summer with their parents. It is customary that when a daughter goes to her parents house she takes with her sweet and salty savouries with her.Daughters spend teej with their parents and after they come back they spend Buddhi Teej which is teej for the daughters-in-law in their marital home. Buddhi Teej normally falls within a week after Rakhi.Today in Delhi there are numerous suits and sari exhibitions before Teej for women to buy clothing for the festival.

THE STORY BEHIND TEEJ...Once upon a monsoon, in a land called Bimala Nagari, King Chandraprabha set out for a hunt in a nearby forest. While he was roaming the woods, he chanced upon a group of apsaras engaged in an intense ritual of prayer and fasting for the goddess Parvati. They tied a sacred thread around the king's wrist, after which he returned home. On seeing the thread, the king's favourite wife Vishalakshi seethed with anger and jealousy. She snatched off a bit of the thread and threw it on a dead tree. Instantly, the tree bloomed to life. The king's second wife, Sri Mahadevi, took some of the thread from her husband's wrist and placed it on herself and thenceforth she became the centre of the king's attentions. Vishalakshi, banished to the forest, prayed to Swarna Gauri or Parvati and in so doing she won back the goodwill of the king and she returned to the palace, her life and love restored.

According to the Skandapurana and the Bhavishyapurana, this incident is the origin of Teej, the festival that falls on the third day of the new moon in the month of Shravan. Women pray to Parvati to seek blessings of marital bliss. In the Bhavishyapurana, Krishna tells his sister Subhadra not to consider herself exempt from the Swarna Gauri Vrata just because her brother is a god and her husband, the mighty Arjun. With her perfect marriage, Parvati is seen as a symbol of feminine power. Parvati takes charge of finding a husband for herself. She embarks on a severe tapasya to counter the one Shiva has undertaken. Her perseverance is rewarded when the normally unyielding and stoic Shiva expresses his willingness to marry her.



Kalidasa's epic poem, the Kumarasambhava, recounts the union of Shiva and Parvati in which it is Parvati who is the hero. Interrupting Shiva's tapasya and convincing him to marry her becomes the goal of the plot. Shiva remains aloof and unfathomable throughout, placing the burden of the plot entirely in Parvati's hands.

Tulsidas describes the union of Shiva and Parvati in several works, including the Ramcharitmanas and the Vinaypatrika, but also exclusively in a shorter composition called the Parvati Mangal. True to his form, Tulsidas follows the dictates of maryada or propriety in his depiction of the Shiva-Parvati union. Instead of attributing sexual ambition to the goddess, he assigns her a cosmic purpose. Together, Shiva and Shakti are two aspects of the same godhead. It is thus essential for Parvati to seek out her lord and unite with him.
The original tale conceived of Parvati as a woman who charts her own destiny, who does everything in her power to claim her sexual and cosmic partner. It is this reputation of single-mindedness, resolve and ultimate success that makes Parvati the object of worship for women seeking happy matrimony. Women who pray to Parvati on Teej hope that similar good fortune will befall them.


On Teej, 'bua, behen and beti' ^ aunt, sister and daughter ^ pamper themselves with delicious food, new clothes, fine jewellery, mehendi and bangles. Traditionally, jhoolas or swings are hung from trees. Women dressed in green swing amidst the lush foliage, for Teej also heralds the advent of the monsoons. Saawan the rainy season is associated with shringara rasa, with beauty, love, pleasure and fertility. Women celebrate these aspects of their lives and of nature by dancing, swinging, eating, singing songs, adorning themselves and indulging in every possible pleasure. The spirit of Parvati imbues Teej with a feminine power and flavour that makes the festival a time of joy and hope for all women.