Santoshi Mata Vrat Katha

On a Friday fast, Santoshi Mata Vrat Katha must be read and recited to others during Santoshi Mata Puja.

In ancient times there used to be an old lady who had seven sons. Six of these seven sons earned money and there was only one who was jobless. The old lady used to feed delicious food to her six sons but only served the leftovers to the seventh son. However, the seventh son was a very pure-hearted person. But never would he hold grudges against anyone.

On such a festive day, the old lady made a variety of dishes and started walking towards her sons. Then the seventh son pretended to be beheaded and took a very thin cloth and lay on the bed lying nearby. He saw that, when his six brothers came, his mother made everyone sit comfortably in the house and served them a variety of dishes. When all of them ate the food, the old lady made a laddoo (sweet) after gathering the leftover from everyone’s plate and said to the seventh boy, ‘Now you also eat the food. To this, he replied, “I will not have the food mother, I am going to a foreign country.” Saying this, he left the house. The boy walked away and reached a merchant’s shop and asked for a job. The boy started working from 7 am to 12 am. On seeing this, the shop owner made him the owner of half of his profits and in a few years, that boy became a well-known merchant.

There on the other side, there was a man whose wife started torturing his daughters. They used to send him to pick up wood in the forest every day and used to save some food. One day she was going to collect wood in the forest, then he saw some women fasting on the way. There, he enquired about the fast. So in response, a woman said that it is Maa Santoshi’s fast and one gets great results because of this.

Then he asked for the fast rituals, while going home, he sold all the wood and bought jaggery and gram. He prepared for the fast and observed it for Santoshi Mata (Santoshi Mata), under the influence of Maa Santoshi Vrat, her husband’s letter came on the following Friday, and received the money sent by her husband on the following Friday.

Then his wife went to Mata Santoshi’s temple, wept, and prayed that I want my husband. Here, mother Santoshi came into her husband’s dream and said to him, “Now you should go home to meet your wife. After this dream, her husband completed all his work and left for home. When the husband of the woman returned home, the wife said that I have to promote the fast of Santoshi Maa.

However, the women of the neighborhood were jealous of him. In such a situation, he deceitfully taught his children that, while eating food, ask the daughter-in-law to use sour things while cooking. In such a situation, the daughter-in-law tried to entertain the children by paying money. Mata Santoshi was very angry when the children started eating.

Then the woman went to Mata Santoshi’s temple again and asked him, why is this happening to me? Why did my husband take the king’s servants? Then Mother Santoshi told her that she used sour things during my Puja, which is forbidden, so this is why sorrows have taken over her life. Then the woman took a vow to redo the fast without any mistake. Mata Santoshi was pleased with her finally. After 9 months, a beautiful son was born in the couple’s house and since then everyone started living happily in that household. In such a situation, there is such a belief about Maa Santoshi’s Vrat that sour things should not be touched and eaten on this Friday fast.