Durgapuja in India
On comes autumn and with it comes the festivity all over India. The blue sky, the kas flower, the golden sun beams all add essence to the festive moments. Everybody in Bengal and abroad are beside themselves with joy as mother Durga is about to come with her children or in various forms to shower peace and gaiety amid her sons and daughters who are torn with strife and misery round the year. Mother comes to add balm to bruised hearts of her dear ones.
In Bengal the mother takes the domestic guise. She comes here to her father's house after the long sojourn in her husband's abode far away in the snow clad Kailash. Mother's such guise reminds us of an Indian woman who comes to her father's house with her sons and daughters after a long gap. In Bengal mother and the Bengali house wife is equated into one. But in other parts of India mother is worshipped in different guises.
All over India Navaratri is celebrated as a part of the Durga Puja. During this Navaratri or Nine Nights the goddess is worshipped in three forms, Durga, Saraswati and Laxmi. The three idols are worshipped to offer human being three important things, to revive the inner self, knowledge and wealth and all kinds of resources. On the 9th day of Navaratri the Ayudhya Puja is celebrated. On this occasion the tools and instruments that are used for cultivation are worshipped.
On the tenth day the Vijayadashami is celebrated with pomp and grandeur to have an edge over the evil. On this day the mother kills the Mahisasura to bring back peace in the earth. Sweets are exchanged among all; every one embraces his near ones with cordial warmth. There is absolute share of goodwill. Vijaya Dashami is called Dussera to some corners. This is a day to celebrate the victory of Rama over Ravana the epitome of evil force.
On comes autumn and with it comes the festivity all over India. The blue sky, the kas flower, the golden sun beams all add essence to the festive moments. Everybody in Bengal and abroad are beside themselves with joy as mother Durga is about to come with her children or in various forms to shower peace and gaiety amid her sons and daughters who are torn with strife and misery round the year. Mother comes to add balm to bruised hearts of her dear ones.
In Bengal the mother takes the domestic guise. She comes here to her father's house after the long sojourn in her husband's abode far away in the snow clad Kailash. Mother's such guise reminds us of an Indian woman who comes to her father's house with her sons and daughters after a long gap. In Bengal mother and the Bengali house wife is equated into one. But in other parts of India mother is worshipped in different guises.
All over India Navaratri is celebrated as a part of the Durga Puja. During this Navaratri or Nine Nights the goddess is worshipped in three forms, Durga, Saraswati and Laxmi. The three idols are worshipped to offer human being three important things, to revive the inner self, knowledge and wealth and all kinds of resources. On the 9th day of Navaratri the Ayudhya Puja is celebrated. On this occasion the tools and instruments that are used for cultivation are worshipped.
On the tenth day the Vijayadashami is celebrated with pomp and grandeur to have an edge over the evil. On this day the mother kills the Mahisasura to bring back peace in the earth. Sweets are exchanged among all; every one embraces his near ones with cordial warmth. There is absolute share of goodwill. Vijaya Dashami is called Dussera to some corners. This is a day to celebrate the victory of Rama over Ravana the epitome of evil force.
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