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Why Guru Purnima Celebrated? (क्यों मनाई जाती है गुरु पूर्णिमा?)

updated Dec 01, 2025, 12:30 AM | 👤 Ekata Samantaray

The festival of Guru Purnima will be celebrated on 24 July 2021. According to the Hindu calendar, the holy festival of Guru Purnima is celebrated every year on the full moon date of the month of Ashadha. The worship of the Guru has special significance on this day. In India, this day is celebrated with great reverence. The importance of Guru has also been told in religious scriptures. Guru is considered superior to God because it is the Guru who shows the way to reach God. Knowledge cannot be imagined without a Guru. Everything becomes possible with the grace of Guru. A Guru can lift a person out of any adverse circumstances.

Auspicious Muhurta for Guru Purnima
Tithi Starts - 23rd July at 10:43 am, Friday
Tithi ends - July 24 at 08:06 am Saturday

Vyas Jayanti is celebrated on this day
According to religious beliefs, Krishna Dvaipayana Vyas, the author of Mahabharat, was born on the holy day of Guru Purnima. Because of which Guru Purnima is also called Vyas Purnima. Krishna Dvaipayana Vyas was a great scholar of Sanskrit.18 Puranas are mentioned in Hinduism, whose author is also Maharishi Ved Vyas. Along with this, the credit of dividing the Vedas also goes to Krishna Dvaipayana Vyas ji, due to which he is also known as Vedvyas. Maharishi Ved Vyas ji is also called Adiguru.

Describing the importance of Guru, a couplet of Saint Kabir is very famous. which is like this -
“गुरु गोविन्द दोनों खड़े, काके लागूं पांय।
बलिहारी गुरु आपने, गोविंद दियो बताय॥”

Apart from this, in the famous Sanskrit verse, Guru has been described as Param Brahma -
“गुरुर्ब्रह्मा ग्रुरुर्विष्णुः गुरुर्देवो महेश्वरः।
गुरुः साक्षात् परं ब्रह्म तस्मै श्री गुरवे नमः”

क्यों मनाई जाती है गुरु पूर्णिमा? हिन्दी में पढ़ें

24 जुलाई, 2021 को गुरु पूर्णिमा मनाया जाएगा। गुरु पूर्णिमा का पबित्र पर्व आषाढ़ मास की पूर्णिमा तिथि को हिन्दू पंचांग के अनुसार मनाया जाता है। भारत में इस दिन को बड़ी श्रद्धा के साथ गुरु की पूजा की जाती है।

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