Vat Purnima 2025: Date, Time, Rituals and Significance of Jyeshtha Purnima

One of the most significant Hindu festival is Vat Purnima that is also known as Jyeshtha as it falls during the month of Jyeshtha and Vat Purnima holds an immense importance and fast is observed by many Hindu women on this day.

They fast for the sake of their husband's health and longevity. Jyeshtha Purnima is the observed on this day.

Vat Purnima is being celebrated today i.e., on June 10, 2025.

Vat Punima 2025: Date and Time

Purnima Tithi Begins - June 10, 2025 - 11:35 AMPurnima Tithi Ends - June 11, 2025 - 01:13 PMShukla Purnima Moonrise on Purnima Upavasa Day - June 10, 2025 - 06:44 PM

Vat Purnima 2025: Significance

One of the main Hindu festival is Vat Purnima that falls on Jyeshtha Purnima. This day is regarded as the most important day, when Hindu married women pray to Vat Vriksha (the banyan tree) and follow a strict fast from sunrise to sunset for the sake of their husbands' health and well being.

On this auspicious day, married ladies worship the banayan tree, which is blessed with immortality, for the health and longevity of their husbands.

It is believed that Trinity God (Brahma Vishnu and Mahesha or Lord Shiva) resides in this tree. The person, who pray to Vat Vriskha with full devotion and purity is blessed with the wish fulfillment. Hindu scriptures state that on this day, Savitri rescued her dying husband Satyavaan from Yamaraj, the God of Death.

Hindu women, who worship Vat Vriskha and fast on this auspicious day are blessed by Trinity God, and their husbands lead long, contented, and healthy lives.

Vat Purnima 2025: Puja Rituals

Before beginning the puja rituals, get up early and take a holy bath. Keep your house tidy and dress traditionally in suits and sarees wearing jewellery. Prepare food for bhog prasad like halwa poori and take some puja samagri - ghee, kumkum, akshat, kalash filled with water, incense sticks, haldi, and kaccha soot (shite sacred thread).

Go to the temple, where Vat Vriksha is located, and pray to the banyan tree by presenting water, lighting a diya beneath the tree, burning incense sticks, and offering kumkum and haldi.

Offer bhog prasad as well. Then, take a white sacred thread and circumambulate the tree seven times and tie the sacred thread.Recite the Vat Purnima Vrat Katha. Once you're back at home, offer a saree or suit to your mother-in-law and touch your in law's feet in order to seek their blessings. Worshipping Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati also bring happiness in life. Women can now break their fast and eat sattvik meals in the evening after offering water to the Moon God.