Holika Dahan is a significant Hindu festival celebrated with great enthusiasm and devotion. This article highlights 5 practices that can be followed during Holika Dahan to attract positivity and prosperity to your home. These practices include lighting a ghee diya, offering holy items to the fire, offering water while doing the parikrama, applying turmeric and sesame oil, and collecting smeared ash from the bonfire. Follow these practices to purify your body and soul and ward off negative energies.
Here are some practices that can be followed during Holika Dahan to bring positivity and prosperity to your home:
Light a ghee diya:
Placing a ghee diya in the northern corner of your house is believed to attract positivity and peace.
Offer holy items to the fire:
Offering cow dung cakes, mustard seeds and oil, sesame seeds, sugar, wheat grains, Akshat, and dried coconut to the holy fire is considered to bring good luck and prosperity.
Offer water while doing the parikrama:
While going around the fire, offering water to the fire symbolizes purification and is believed to bring blessings from the deity.
Apply turmeric and sesame oil:
It is believed that applying a mixture of turmeric and sesame oil all over one’s body on the day of Holika Dahan, followed by offering the scraped turmeric to the Holika fire, will bring good health and ward off negative energies.
Collect the smeared ash from the bonfire:
Collecting and smearing the ash from the Holika Dahan bonfire on the body is considered pious and believed to purify the body and soul.
