It is believed that one can get rid of all woes by keeping a vrat and performing the puja with devotion. Thus, by doing so, the devotee can appeal to the lord to shower his compassionate grace on him/her.
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.