2,000 ghee lamps will be lit during Gopashtami at world first Maat Pitaah Temple in Mohali
Punjab Governor Gulab Chand Kataria will be chief guest
City Air News
Oct 28, 2025 11:37
0
Chandigarh: The Gopashtami festival will be celebrated with great pomp and show at the Maat Pitaah Godham Mahatirth on Banur-Ambala Road in Mohali district on Thursday.
Punjab Governor Gulab Chand Kataria will be the chief guest on the occasion. National Award-winning Bollywood actor and producer Vijay Tandon, Senior Vice President of the All-India Agrawal Sammelan (Haryana), Jagmohan Garg, will be present as special guests. Social worker Satyabhagwan Singla, President of Sanatan Dharma Baikunth Dham Pradeep Goyal, and Founder of Planet Ayurveda, Dr. Vikram Chauhan will be present as special guests.
During the occasion, the devotees will light over 2,000 ghee lamps.
Gochar Das Gyan, Chief Servant of Mat Pitaah Godham Mahatirtha, said that many people from Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Delhi will participate in the event. He further informed that during this period, worship of Mother Cow will be performed from morning till night.
The haven will take place between 1 pm and 1:30 pm, and the prasad will be distributed between 1:30 pm and 2:30 pm. Bhajan kirtan will be organized from 3 pm to 7:30 pm. A grand aarti of the mother cow will be held at 7 pm, followed by the community langar.
In the program, Akhil Bhartiya Gao Katha Vachak Shri Chandrakant and bhajan singer Shri Hit Sharan Siddharth Bhaiya ji will mesmerize the devotees with their kathas and bhajans.
On this occasion, the entire area of Maat Pitaah Godham Mahatirth, the place of penance of Nandini Cow Mother, will be illuminated like Diwali.
Maat Pitaah Godham Mahatirth temple has established its identity at the world level. In the World Record Book (London), the temple has been given the status of being the only temple in the world devoted to parents, which does not have the idol of any deity. Devotees can remember and worship his or her parents in the temple.
