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.
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- 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
Raksha Bandhan
The thread of protection
A thread is tied at the wrist and a promise of care is renewed. Beyond the family custom, raksha means simply protection, and the day carries an older prayer: that those we love be kept safe by something larger than our own ability to keep them so.
A recommended mantra for this sacred day
Om Namo Narayanaya — Ashtakshara Mantra
The Ashtakshara addresses Narayana as the one who sustains and shelters — the prayer a devotee makes on behalf of someone else rather than themselves.
Coming up
The months ahead
Every remaining sacred day in the window, in order, with its chant.
October 2026
November 2026
- DhanterasThe first lamp of Diwali, and a prayer for healthchantOm Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya
- 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.