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Today, the holy festival of Shri Krishna Janmashtami is being celebrated with pomp all over the world. Srihari’s birth in midnight is celebrated in a symbolic way. This festival is a wonderful confluence of religious enthusiasm, reverence and devotion. Devotees decorate the tableaux of Shri Krishna, sing hymns and especially prepare fifty six bhog for God.
The specialty and importance of fifty six bhog
Why does Lord Krishna enjoy 56 cuisine? Usually the question arises – why not 50, 51 or 55? It has a big spiritual and historical reason.
According to the Puranas, Bal Gopal used to eat eight times a whole day – satvik food every watch. When Krishna left the entire meal one day during Govardhan Puja in Braj and ate only once, Mother Yashoda prepared 56 cuisine in the eight watch instead of seven cuisine the next day. Since then this tradition has been going on.
What happens in fifty six bhog?
This enjoyment includes not only sweets, fruits, salty, sherbet, khichdi, dumplings, regrees, Makhan-Mishri, dried fruits, vegetables, raita and many types of paranthas, pudding, kheer, laddus. Special thing-All these dishes are completely prepared in sattvic, without garlic-onion, pure ghee and native way.
Benefits of offering fifty six bhog
It is said that the virtue that God gets by offering fifty -six bhog is equal to many Satkarma. In order to fulfill his wish, to get happiness, prosperity and good fortune in life, devotees offer this enjoyment with full devotion. This is the reason that a tradition of fifty six bhog is played in every house, temples and ashrams on Janmashtami.
