Nautapa 2025: If you are already stressed about the heat, there’s something you should be more careful of. From today onwards, 26th May to 3rd-4th June these 9 days are going to be worse in terms of temperatures. These 9 days are known as Nautapa. In order to protect yourself from getting sick, you can adapt Ayurveda as your guide to lead you through these days.
What is Nautapa 2025?
In Vedic astrology, Nautapa or nine days are the days when Surya Devta i.e. sun enter it’s favorite star. Sun enters the Rohini stars which results in Tapa of the Prithvi (Earth). The northern hemisphere tilts towards the Sun. It results in direct sun rays all over the Indian subcontinent. You must be wondering why does Surya Devta does this to us? Well, because this is very beneficial for our nature as well for our body.
The scorching heat helps to kill various contagious pathogens like bacteria, fungi etc. Moreover, it also acts like a natural Panchakarma for our body. The Kapha dosha which gets aggravated during the previous season gets drain out from our body through Swedan (sweating). This is like a natural detoxication necessary for pur well being like Tapas (penance).
Ayurvedic Approach to Nautapa
In Ayurveda, Nautapa is associated with an aggravation of the Pitta dosha, which governs heat, metabolism, and digestion. The excessive heat during this period can disrupt the body’s natural balance, leading to symptoms like dehydration, acidity, skin rashes, and fatigue.
With the modernisation, people are forgetting these kind of important natural events. While many still know about this, they fail to adjust their body to it. This is the reason behind people falling sick during these days frequenty. To our rescue, Ayurveda also stands out describing each and every step to live life. Ayurvedic knowledge covers us like an umbrella from this heat during Nautapa 2025.
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9 things to follow during Nautapa 2025
1. Include raw onions in your salad to enhance the fibers in your diet.
2. Add buttermilk in your diet. You can add Cumin powder, mint and rock salt to give you instant cooling.
3. Consume all the seasonal fruits in your duet especially sour fruits
4. Include raw mango in your diet. Make quick chutney, aam panna (raw mango juice) etc to savor it!
5. Drink coconut water to save yourself from dehydration. To balance electrolytes, consume mint and coriander leaves as much as possible.
6. For hydrated skin, apply paste of Chandan and Multani Mitti. It can cool down your skin really quick.
7. Make sure to wear liner or cotton clothes of light colors. It won’t trap the heat inside your body preventing you from excess sweating.
8. Avoid going out from 12:00 PM to 4:00 pm. Even of you have to, don’t forget to take un umbrella with you.
9. Drink cold drink which contains fennel seeds, melon, poppy seeds, and gulkand. Include cold and nutritious food in your diet.
9 this to avoid during Nautapa 2025
1. Curd (especially at night): It’s heating and Kapha-aggravating, leading to mucus and indigestion.
2. Pickles & achar: High salt and oil increase Pitta and water retention.
3. Heavy dals (urad/chana): Difficult to digest, they burden weakened summer Agni (digestive fire).
4. Fried & oily foods: Create Ama (toxins) and block digestive channels.
5. Meat & eggs: Tamasik and heavy, they increase body heat and slow digestion.
6. Fermented foods: Sour and heating, they aggravate Pitta and cause acidity.
7. Red chili & spicy masala: Directly spike Pitta, leading to rashes and heartburn.
8. Alcohol & caffeine: Dehydrate and disturb Agni, weakening metabolism.
9. Ice-cold/fizzy drinks: Shock digestive fire, leading to toxin accumulation (Ama).
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Spiritual Significance of Nautapa
When the Sun enters Rohini Nakshatra, the temperature remains at its peak for the next 9 days. As soon as the Sun reaches this constellation, the earth starts heating up like fire due to which people have to face severe heat.
In Hinduism, special importance has been given to worshipping the Sun during this period. During Nautapa, if you offer Arghya to the Sun and chant this mantra – Om Ghrini Suryaya Namah (ऊं घृणि सूर्याय नमः) or Om Suryadevaya Namah (ऊँ सूर्यदेवाय नमः) then the position of the planets in your horoscope will improve. Worshiping Suryanarayana during Nautapa brings happiness, prosperity and well-being in a person’s life. At the same time, avoid going out of the house repeatedly without any work during Nautapa. Also, stop children from going out. Because the strong rays of the sun can have a bad effect on your health.
Apart from this, during Nautapa, if someone comes to your door asking for something, do not let them go back empty handed. Donate something according to your capacity, it brings auspicious benefits. Worshiping Suryanarayana during Nautapa brings happiness, prosperity and well-being in a person’s life. At the same time, avoid going out of the house repeatedly without any work during Nautapa.
Ayurveda has answer for each and everything about living life. That’s the reason it’s called ‘the science of life’. It’s time when we drop the notion that Ayurveda is merely a pseudoscience. Embrace these ancient rituals to live a life without any disease and hardship on the principles suggested by Acharyas.
