As per renowned spiritual leader Shri Indradev Ji Maharaj, Raksha Bandhan is actually a vedic festival, and was celebrated by calling a Brahmin or the Guru at home and tying a scared thread from him.
Below are the excerpts from his santsang.
- With this ritual sanathan dharmi’s used to start a new spiritual or religious vrata. This generally marked a beginning to start something new, in those days they use to start reading some vedic books.
- Even today in rural India this vedic rituals are followed.
- This changed with intolerant Islamic invasion of India, which resulted in forceful abduction and conversion of hindu women.
- Sisters would tie rakhi, the scared thread to brothers, wishing for protection along with praying for their brothers long life and success.
