Somvati Amavasya 2025: A Sacred Occasion for Ancestral Grace, Inner Clarity and Shiva Devotion

Within the Vedic calendar, Amavasya carries its own depth. But when Amavasya coincides with a Monday, it takes on added sanctity. This combination is known as Somvati Amavasya. In the year 2025, this rare event falls on 26 May, the Amavasya of the Jyeshtha month. This is a day marked by austerity, remembrance and offering - a time for ancestral peace, inner purification and reverent worship of Lord Shiva.

Somvati Amavasya 2025: Date and Auspicious Timing

• Date: Monday, 26 May 2025
• Amavasya Begins: 26 May at 12:11 PM
• Amavasya Ends: 27 May at 8:31 PM
• Punya Kaal and Shraddha Time: From sunrise to sunset on 26 May
• Due to Udya Tithi (day of moonrise), the main observance will be on 26 May

Puja Vidhi and Rules of the Day

Morning Bath

• Before sunrise, bathe with water mixed with Gangajal
• If possible, bathe at a sacred river. If at home, invoke holy waters mentally

Arghya to Surya

• Offer Arghya to the Sun in a copper vessel with water, red flowers and black sesame
• Chant the mantra: Om Suryaya Namah

Worship of Shiva and Rudrabhishek

• Perform Rudrabhishek on a Shiva Linga using water, milk, honey, sesame and bilva leaves
• Recite Om Namah Shivaya 108 times
• For Pitru Tarpan, hold water in your palm and pour facing south while chanting:
• Om Pitrudevaya Namah
• Light a lamp at a Shiva temple and pray for ancestral peace and family harmony

Worship of Hanuman

• Light a lamp before Hanumanji and recite either the Hanuman Chalisa or Sundarkand

Other Auspicious Acts

• Worship a Peepal tree. Offer milk mixed water at its root, do seven circumambulations and light a lamp
• Read the seventh chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, offering it mentally to one’s ancestors
• Donate food or flour mixed with sugar or milk to cows, dogs, ants and fish

Remedies for Ancestral Peace

• It is highly auspicious to plant a Peepal tree on this day
• On Amavasya, Peepal is believed to be the seat of ancestral spirits. Offer - - sweetened milk water at its root, do seven circumambulations and light a lamp
• Perform Tarpan facing the south direction using water mixed with sesame
• Offer food, money or grass to the poor, to Brahmins and to cows
• In the northeast of your home, light a red lamp after sunset for growth and protection
• One powerful remedy is to look at your reflection in milk and then feed that very milk to a black dog - this calms mental disturbances

Jyotish Significance

Amavasya is the day when both the Sun and the Moon align in the same sign. It brings a moment of inward quiet but also reduced mental clarity. This makes it an ideal time for inner work - contemplation, reflection and simple meditation. Those born on Amavasya often have Chandra Dosha in their chart. Special puja and mantra practice on this day strengthens the mind and heals lunar affliction.

Unique Double Conjunction This Year

In 2025, Somvati Amavasya will occur twice - first on 26 May and again on 20 October. Both days are special but the one that falls in Jyeshtha month is particularly fruitful for ancestral peace and spiritual merit.

A Call from Within

Ask yourself - when someone in a family made sacrifices for us, gave us everything - is one phrase of remembrance sufficient? Somvati Amavasya is not a calendar mark, it is a moment when we pause to honour those who built our breath, our blood, our name. Somewhere, there is the soul of an old father, who once sat under the Peepal in the family courtyard. He finds peace only when the son lights a lamp and quietly says - “Father, you still live within every breath of mine.”

A Day of Return and Gratitude

Somvati Amavasya is more than a religious date. It is an opportunity to return to origins, to bathe the self in stillness and to look within. Through Pitru Tarpan, Shiva puja, acts of charity and contemplation, one moves towards clearer awareness. On 26 May 2025, let us immerse ourselves with reverence and simplicity into the spirit of Somvati Amavasya and offer a true tribute to those whose contributions cannot be measured, only honored.