Kushe aausi or Father's day in Nepal 2020 importance and its significance.

" The greatest gift I ever had from god,I call him dad"

What is Fathers day in Nepal or kushe aausi ?

Fathers day or kushe aausi or Gokarna aausi is holy day or festival marking the consequentiality and  paying homage towards fathers. On this auspicious day people pay reverence, worship and offer their favourite aliment This day is additionally called as "buwa ko mukh herne din" .

This day is additionally called pitri Tirpani aausi.On this day people whose father was deceased go to temple 0r near the bank of river to perform Shraddha. On this day all Hindu tradition adherent bring kush, a holy grass to home which is utilized in different rituals.

When is Kushe aausi or fathers day?

Kushe aausi is on Bhadra krishna aausi.This year kushe aausi is on Bhadra 03 2077 which is on 19th August 2020 in English calender.

What people do and how we celebrate fathers day?

It's the day when we pay homage to our father who always availed us and bear all responsibility of home. A father is pillar and heart of the home. On this day offering victuals, habiliments and spending quality time with father avails to rejuvenate the gap engendered during the whole year. On this day espoused daughter returns to her father's home to pay reverence.According to hindu religion father,mother and preceptor has always taken as a god. Father is guru,friend, palankarta,god and Rakshak of the house. So this day is withal called "buwa ko mukh herne din",so everyone optically discerns the face of their father and provide them gifts.

Men of Kathmandu, go to Gokarna to offer pinda Daan or sida daan  to their deceased father. Other people around the whole nation perform Shraddha at home or at bank of the river but this year due to pandemic its arduous and jeopardy to go outside.

This day is called kushe aausi because Hindu adherent brings kush,holy grass in their habitation which has great religious consequentiality and is utilized in every ritual and poojas. The paramountcy of kush has been described in the Shreemad Bhagwat Gita,Garud puran and many other religious books. Here is a sloke describing the consequentiality of Kush.

People prepare different ambrosial foods, dishes, meat and victual to father first. People sing musical compositions,dance and spend quality time with family members.

Nepal is multiethnic country and virtually all ethnic group has their own style of celebrating festivals.Some celebrate this day on a morning with empty stomach and some celebrate it at evening.However,all ethnic group prepare the ambrosial feast and accommodate it to their father.

What is its significance and religious importance?

It is believed that once Lord Shiva and Parbati vanished from Himalaya parbat.All he Deities were very surprised and commenced probing them all across the macrocosm.Brahma and other deities caught lord Shiva and Parbati in the lives of deer in selsmantak   forest of Pashupati. The " buck" deer were caught by Brahma by his horns. The horns emerged in Brahmas hands and Brahma commenced to feel culpable as he cerebrated he had done great sin. Than lord Shiva asked Vishnu and Brahma to establish those horns as Shiva linga in somewhere in Nepal as they cerebrate fit.Brahma placed it on Gokarna.Since than, it is believed that worshipping Shiva on Gokarneshwor and doing pinda daan for their deceased fathers is identically tantamount of visiting Gaya 10 times. Gaya is another Hindu holy site which is on India.

 It denotes and edify us that revering our seniors and doting juniors is our prime obligation. This festival is the festival of love sharing engendering bond and reconstitute the togetherness and paying homage to our beloved one from every way possible. It brings every family members at a place and a felicitous way of sharing all ecstasy and sorrows transpiring in their quotidian life.

-Nama Raj Bhusal

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