Makar Sankranti in auspicious yoga, know on which day Makar Sankranti will be celebrated on January 14 or 15?

This year the festival of Makar Sankranti will be celebrated on 15 January. According to Vedic calculations, the change of Sun in Capricorn will happen on the night of January 14 at 08.46 minutes.

Makar Sankranti 2023: Makar Sankranti is a special festival in Hinduism. The festival of Makar Sankranti is celebrated every year on January 14 on the basis of solar calculations. Sun enters Capricorn on Makar Sankranti. From this day the Sun becomes Uttarayan. After Makar Sankranti, the days start getting longer and the nights shorter. Makar Sankranti brings change in season. Autumn begins to leave and spring begins to arrive. In Hinduism, most of the fasts and festivals are calculated on the basis of Moon through Panchang.

When is Makar Sankranti this year?

This year the festival of Makar Sankranti will be celebrated on 15 January. According to Vedic calculations, the change of Sun in Capricorn will happen on the night of January 14 at 08.46 minutes. In such a situation, experts of astrology are of the opinion that celebrating Makar Sankranti on Sunday would be more auspicious. On January 15, 2023, on Makar Sankranti, the auspicious time for bathing, donation and worship will start at 7 in the morning till 6 in the evening. In fact, it is mentioned in the Hindu scriptures that after the sun sets, when the sun enters Capricorn, then it is auspicious to celebrate the festival of Makar Sankranti the next day. This year also a similar yoga is being made on Makar Sankranti.

According to astrological calculations, this time on the evening of January 14, the Sun will leave Sagittarius and enter Capricorn. When the Sun enters Capricorn, the period of Kharmas, which lasted for one month, will end and all kinds of auspicious works will begin.

Auspicious yoga on makar sankranti

This time on January 15, the auspicious festival of Makar Sankranti will be celebrated. The names of Sukarma and Padma will be auspicious on Makar Sankranti on January 15. Apart from this, the festival of Makar Sankranti will be dedicated to Sun God on Sunday. In such a situation, Ganga bath, charity and sun worship will have special importance in this auspicious yoga. It will be auspicious to celebrate Makar Sankranti in this auspicious yoga.

Sun worship and worship have special importance in Hinduism. Worshiping and offering Arghya to Sun God on Makar Sankranti is considered very auspicious. On the day of Makar Sankranti, take water in a copper pot and put black sesame seeds, jaggery, red sandalwood, red flowers, Akshat etc. in it and then chanting the mantra 'Om Suryaya Namah', it is auspicious and auspicious to offer Arghya to the Sun.