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Mothers’ Day In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
April 14, 2010: today all Nepalis have celebrated mothers’ day serving very delicious food and presenting mothers with gifts from the early morning. Most of the brides wearing the wedding attires have gone to their mothers’ homes for revering the mothers; so, the streets of major towns are full of women wearing red saris taking public and private transport to reach their mothers. Sons usually live with their parents; so, they don’t need to travel to their mothers.
All Nepalis not having their mothers in this world present a plateful of delicious foods to their priests in the name of the deceased mothers in belief that the priests in turn will take the food to the souls of mothers in another world.
In Kathmandu, thousands of men and women have visited ‘matathirtha’ from the early morning to make offerings to their departed mothers and to perform memorial services to their mothers. They believe that the souls of departed mothers visit that place today and they can see the reflections of the faces of their mothers in the waters of the pond there today.
Elsewhere in Nepal, men and women go to a riverbank or well or any other water sources to take a quick cleaning wash of their bodies and visit the nearby temple to any deity and make offerings to the deity praying for the peace of the souls of their departed mothers.
