Festival & Mantra Calendar
Upcoming sacred festivals & recommended mantras
Each festival is a different doorway into devotion — light, protection, surrender, courage, abundance or remembrance. Choose the mantra for the day, listen before sleep, and let the sacred sound stay with you. The calendar shows every observance from today through the next twelve months.
Showing festivals from to
- Reference location
- New Delhi, India
- Calendar basis
- Location-based Hindu pañcāṅga
- Last reviewed
Festival observance can differ by location, because tithi, sunrise and timezone all affect the applicable date. Please confirm local temple or pañcāṅga timings if precise observance times matter to your practice.
Next sacred day
Sharad Navratri begins
Nine nights of the Divine Mother
Nine nights given to the Mother in her many forms — fierce, nurturing, victorious — each night carrying a different aspect. For many households it is the longest sustained devotional practice of the year, which is exactly the shape a nightly listening practice takes.
A recommended mantra for this sacred day
Sarva Mangala Mangalye — Devi Prayer
Sarva Mangala Mangalye is the verse sung at the close of Devi worship, and it carries well across nine consecutive nights without wearing thin.
Coming up
- Durga AshtamiThe eighth night of the MotherChant · Sarva Mangala Mangalye — Devi Prayer
- Dussehra (Vijayadashami)The tenth day, and the end of a long fightChant · Lokabhiramam Ranarangadhiram — Shri Rama Vandana
- DhanterasThe first lamp of Diwali, and a prayer for healthChant · Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya
The months ahead
Every remaining sacred day in the window, in order, with its chant.
November 2026
- DiwaliThe festival of lightschantOm Namo Narayanaya — Ashtakshara Mantra
- Govardhan PujaKrishna lifts the mountainchantKrishnaya Vasudevaya — Krishna Prayer of Surrender
- Bhai DoojThe closing day of the Diwali sequenceInformational — no chant recommended
- Kartik Purnima (Dev Deepawali)The gods' festival of lightschantOm Namah Shivaya — Panchakshara Mantra
December 2026
January 2027
February 2027
March 2027
April 2027
May 2027
July 2027
Looking for a chant outside the festival days? Browse the full mantra library, or begin a practice of 7, 21, 40 or 108 nights.