There was a fight between god and deamons in the ancient time.The king of the angels, known as Lord Indra, was worried about the consequences and the result of the battle. His wife could not see him so anxious and prayed to the ultimate God. She was a very spiritual lady so she made a thread with her spiritual power and tied it around Indra’s wrist. She also believed that this thread would guard Indra from the attack and the demons. Her belief was fulfilled and Indra return from the battle with great victory and he was also untouched and unhurt by in that battle.
Since that time, we have been following this tradition and celebrating the day as Raksha Bandhan every year on Shravan Purnima. Though this celebration has now mostly been associated with brother sister relation but in the previous time, if a woman ties a Rakhi on the hand of a man, then it became essential for that man to protect that woman from all the evils.
Now days, the occasion is celebrated by distributing sweets or mithais, tying rakhi on brother’s hand and brothers giving return gift to sister.
A tradition rakhi was only used to have a rakhi thread called Dora or Mauli but now we have various types of rakhis like designer rakhi, gold rakhi, silver rakhi, beeds rakhi, kundan rakhi, resham rakhi, sandalwood rakhi etc. To perform the rakhi rituals, sister decorate the puja thali or rakhi thali with flowers or sweets and even they buy this readymade decorated thalis from market.
These thalis can contain rakhi with flowers rakhi with sweets, rakhi with dry fruits or even rakhi with chocolate if you are going to perform aarti for your kid brother.
Apart from this, in major part on India, this festival is also celebrated by tying Lumba or Bhabhi ki rakhi on bhabhi’s wrist. This is also significant as bhabhi is companion of their brother and it is also important to give her the same importance.
Lumba ir very stylish and trendy rakhi, it mostly looks like and ornament if selected properly.
An online gift shop is a good option to hunt for a perfect lumba rakhi for your bhabhi as you can choose the best rakhi for your bhabhi by just browsing some web pages. You can also purchase online rakhi and get the rakhis for USA or rakhi for UK.