Rath Yatra is the festival of Lord Krishna

Rath Yatra is the festival of Lord Krishna 

• The Rath Yatra is the festival when Lord Krishna (Lord Jagannath) left Dwarka in a spiritual ceremony at the holy pilgrimage site, Kurukshetra, about 5000 years ago.
• He along with his sister, Subhadra, and elder brother Balarama were traveling on a huge grand chariot to Vrindavan.

• In commemoration of that event, the Rath Yatra, the festival of Rath Yatra is widely known every year in the temple town of Puri on the east coast of the home of Lord Jagannath Puri is that most pilgrimage is done in India.
• It is located within the state of Orissa, bordering the Bay of Bengal.

• This holy place attracts tourists from all over the world not only for the exquisite Jagannath Puri temple, but also for the captivating natural great thing about the beach.
• The Ultimate Town located within the state of Puri, Orissa can be a great pilgrimage for all Hindus.
• The temple of Lord Jagannath is located here and has created a Palestine. Located next to the Bay of Bengal, it attracts tourists to enjoy the cool breeze of the water and take a stroll on the sandy beaches. The land of festivities, the land of thousand colors and therefore the land where traditions join hands with the lifestyle of its inhabitants - India.

• There is no better thank than describing this incredible country that it is an area that celebrates life to the fullest.
• During the annual event, devotees from everywhere come to Puri with a firm desire to assist in pulling the lords' chariots.
• Large processions accompanying the chariot play devotional songs with the sound of drums, bronzes, cymbals etc.
• The chariot carts themselves are about 45 feet (14 meters) high and are pulled by thousands of devotees who come for the event.

• Chariots are made annually from a specific type of tree (neem).
• It is also broadcast on many Indian television channels as many websites are broadcast live on Jagannath Rath Jatra.
• There are some events which are considered because the major activities of this annual spectacular event.
• They are thus treated with a set of Ayurvedic medicines and traditional practices.

• On the Bahu Yatra, the return car festival, the Lords are brought back to the shrine.
• Suna Baisha (Golden Attire) is the event when the gods wear golden ornaments and offer prayers to the devotees with chariots.
• Adhara Pana is an important event during the Rath Yatra.
• To this day, sweet drinks are received for unseen spirits and spirits who, according to Hindu tradition, must have visited the astronomical event of the Lords.

• The Jagannath temple and are installed on the chariot Simhasan, which occurs on the judgment day of the chariot journey activity which is named ‘Neeladri Beej’.
• The three chariots of Balabhadra, Subhadra and Jagannath are constructed every year with specified trees such as wood, dhosa, etc., which they bring from the principality of carpenters and ancestors.
• The logs are traditionally installed as rafts within the Mahanadi River.

• Overlaid with bright canopies made of stripes of red cloth and combined with colors of black, yellow and green, large chariots are lined across the wide avenue next.
• It is sixteen wheels, seven-foot in diameter each, and is ornamented with a canopy made of red and yellow cloth.
• Lord Jagannath is identified with Krishna, who is additionally known as Pitambara, who sits in a golden yellow robe and therefore distinguished the yellow stripes on the cover.
• The chariot of Lord Balarama, called Taladhvaja, is the one with the palm on its flag.

• It is fourteen wheels, each seven feet in diameter and covered with red and green cloth.
• Subhadra's chariot, referred to as Dvarapalan, literally means "tricycle of pride," thirty-three feet high with twelve wheels, each of seven feet in diameter.
• This chariot is covered with red and black cloth - black color is traditionally considered to be related to Shakti and hence the Goddess.

• No other crisis or disaster, even the good 18th century famine, is ready to hold it back. The government should ensure that it goes ahead after taking all possible precautions this year as well.