Karwachauth is a one-day festival celebrated annually by married women in which they observe fast from sunrise to moonrise and pray for the well-being and longevity of their husbands.
I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness.