Rammay Nepal: Janaki temple illuminated ahead of Pran Pratistha at the Ram temple

People are excited to celebrate Ram Lalla’s Pran Pratistha in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya, which is scheduled to happen today. The Janaki Temple in Janakpur, Nepal, lit up with lights ahead of the Ram Temple Pran Pratishtha in Ayodhya. Janakpur, the city supposedly inhabited by Goddess Sita and her father King Janak, is getting ready to celebrate Monday with great fanfare and revelry. As part of Deepawali, the city will be showered in festive lights and decorations.

Pramod Kumar Chaudhary, former chairman of the Shree Ram Youth Committee, said, “Raja Ramchandra after the Vanvas (exile) in Tretayuga, the pain he had to endure; it continued in Kaliyuga as well, he had to struggle for five hundred years in Ayodhya- the birth land of Lord Ram, he had to shelter under the tarpaulin, his pain indeed was the pain of all the Hindus. Our ancestors had fought and struggled hard and the end result is here with the construction of temple of Maryadapurush Lord Ram whose Pran Pratistha is scheduled for tomorrow. On this occasion, I congratulate all the Indian nationals and Janakpur also is in state of joyousness.”

The holy city of Ayodhya is decked out in lights as the Pran Pratistha ceremony is less than 24 hours away. In an effort to light 25,000 oil-fed lamps, the Army’s Janaki Sena youth group launched a campaign to gather donations in the form of oil, cotton lamps, and clay pots.