Happy Gudi Padwa 2025: Best messages, images, quotes, wishes, cards, greetings, pictures and GIFs to share with family and friends

The traditional New Year for Maharastrians, called Gudi Padwa, which marks the beginning of the Hindu lunisolar calendar, is being celebrated today. The festival is celebrated on the first day of the Chaitra month of the Hindu calendar, which generally falls in March or April in the Gregorian calendar. Gudi Padwa is celebrated with great enthusiasm and joy in Maharashtra and various parts of Goa. Since Gudi Padwa is the Maharastrians New Year, it signifies new beginnings, prosperity, and the victory of good over evil.
Gudi Padwa has both mythological and historical significance. It is believed that it was on this day that Lord Brahma created the universe and time. Also, historically, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, who was the founder of the Maratha Empire, is said to have raised the Gudi to mark his victories, thus making it an important cultural tradition in Maharashtra. For the unversed, Gudi is a sacred flag. And on this day, people do create a Gudi and decorate it in their home on this festival.
This year, Gudi Padwa is being celebrated on March 30, 2025. On this day, people celebrating the festival wake up early in the morning, bathe, and wear new clothes. While women wear traditional Maharashtrian saree, men wear the Indian kurta-pajama and a turban. On this day, people also hoist a Gudi at home, which is made using a bamboo stick which is draped in a bright silk cloth and decorated with neem leaves, mango leaves, and flowers. At the top of the stick, a copper or silver pot is placed, and it symbolises prosperity. This Gudi is then placed outside homes or on windows, and it marks victory and good fortune. And just like any other festival which is incomplete without good food, on this day people prepare special dishes like Puran Poli, Shrikhand, Neem Pachadi, among other traditional Maharastrian recipies. And so, Gudi Padwa is a day of celebrating the New Year with friends, family, and people who are close to you.
To help you wish your near and dear ones on this special day, here we list some messages, images, quotes, wishes, cards, greetings, pictures and GIFs to share with family and friends:
Gudi Padwa messages, wishes, greetings
1. On this auspicious day, let us get together and celebrate the New Year. Happy Gudi Padwa!
2. Wishing you a bright and prosperous Gudi Padwa! May this new year bring lots of happiness, good health, and success to you and your family.
3. May this Gudi Padwa bless you with new beginnings, positivity, and endless joy. Happy New Year!
4. Here's wishing you all a very happy Gudi Padwa, from our family to yours!
5. May the festive spirit of Gudi Padwa bring you good luck, prosperity, and happiness all year long! Happy Gudy Padwa!
6. Gudi Padwa is reminder of the victory of good over evil, no matter what happens! Happy Gudi Padwa!
7. May your day be filled with peace, love, and positivity. Happy Gudi Padwa!
8. Here's wishing you and your family a very happy Gudi Padwa!
9. Here's to a year filled with happiness and togetherness. Happy Gudi Padwa!
10. May this new year bring new hopes, opportunities, and success into your life. Happy Gudi Padwa!
11. Gudi Padwa is a time to celebrate new beginnings in life! Happy New Year!
12. May this year be filled with love, success, and good fortune for you. Happy Gudi Padwa!
13. Let’s celebrate this auspicious day with joy and gratitude. Happy Gudi Padwa!
14. May your year ahead be as bright as the Gudi! Happy Gudi Padwa!
15. Gudi Padwa is a reminder of our rich culture and traditions. May it bring you joy and success. Happy Gudi Padwa 2025!
16. Let’s raise the Gudi and welcome another wonderful year filled with new hopes and dreams!
Gudi Padwa quotes: A celebration of new beginnings
1. "For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice." — T.S. Eliot
2. "Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." — Oprah Winfrey
3. "Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’" — Alfred Lord Tennyson
4. "New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday." — Charles Lamb
5. "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. "We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them." — Hillary DePiano
7. "No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again." — Buddha
8. "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." — Eleanor Roosevelt
9. "The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written." — Melody Beattie
10. "A new heart for a New Year, always!" — Charles Dickens
11. "Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one." — Brad Paisley
12. "And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been." — Rainer Maria Rilke
13. "It is never too late to be what you might have been." — George Eliot
Gudi Padwa images, pictures, cards, and GIFs