Lohri

Lohri, the Sacred Harvest Fire

On the coldest nights of January, families gather round a bonfire, offer sesame and jaggery into the flames and sing. Offer your own handful into the fire: let a negativity burn away.

Coming up · dates to be confirmed against the Panchang

🔥 Offer til & gur 📜 Recite together What it means

For first-time visitors

What Lohri means

Lohri is the winter festival of Punjab, kept on the eve of Makar Sankranti, when the Sun turns north and the days begin to lengthen. Farmers give thanks for the sugarcane harvest and the ripening wheat; Til & Gur (Sesame & Jaggery), peanuts and popcorn are offered into the fire and shared.

The fire is also an inner image. As the seed burns, the seeker offers the habits and resentments that keep the heart cold. The saints call the knowledge of the Self a fire that burns old karma: it is lit within through Brahm Gyan (Direct Internal Awakening / Self-Realization), and tended by daily Sadhna (Daily Meditation Practice).

Recite together

A prompter for the sangat

Coming soon from the sewadars. The prompter will show the Lohri folk prayers the sangat sings round the fire as soon as the text is entered on the festival desk from a verified printed source. We do not publish sacred texts from memory.

Meanwhile, the Bhakti lyrics library has verified stotras and aartis with the meaning of every word.

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