HARIYALI TEEJ FESTIVAL IN RAJASTHAN: CELEBRATION OF DIVINE FEMININE PRINCIPLE
- Lalit Kishore
- Jul 27
- 1 min read
In 2025, Hariyali Teej and Hartalika Teej is being celebrated in Rajasthan on July 27 to welcome Sawan Month , rainy season with greenery all around along with revisiting the ancient ‘divine feminine principle’.
The festival is manly celebrated by women by enjoying swings, wearing new sarees, fasting, singing, dancing, worshiping, sweets, worshipping and praying.
The festival of Teej is primarily dedicated to Devi Parvati and her union with Lord Shiva. Here in the inset picture, on Teej is given for you to know the purpose of the festival. In Rajasthan, mandanas or wall paintings are done to mark the beginning of the festival in the morning.
As an ancient cultural festival, Teej stands for celebrating 'Divine Feminine Principle' and such festivals exist in most cultures of the world. According to to Emily Torres the 'divine feminine' is the ‘spiritual concept’ that subscribes for the view that ‘there exists a feminine counterpart to the patriarchal and masculine worship structures that have long dominated organized religions’ and it ‘extends well beyond one belief system, and instead can be used as a spiritual lens to balance our perspective.’
“When you feel you are being moved by the creative spirit, you are in fact being moved by the divine feminine,” states Teri Degler. further, Matthew Fox maintains, “When the Sacred Masculine is combined with the Sacred Feminine inside each of us, we create the ‘sacred marriage’ of compassion and passion in ourselves.” This is significant spiritual tenet finds the expression in Shiv-Parvati union celebrated on Teej festival.
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