Govardhan Puja 2026: Date and the Story of Annakut
Govardhan Puja 2026 falls on Tuesday, 10 November 2026, the day after Diwali. It recalls Lord Krishna lifting the Govardhan hill to shelter the people of Vrindavan.
Annakut
Devotees prepare a mountain of vegetarian food, the Annakut ("heap of grain"), and offer it in gratitude. In many homes a small Govardhan is fashioned from earth and worshipped.
Gratitude to nature
The festival is, at heart, a thanksgiving to nature and the cow, a reminder to live in harmony with the world that sustains us.
Govardhan teaches that the divine often shelters us through nature itself.
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