Thursday, October 11, 2018

Navaratri

Navaratri, which means nine nights, is a traditional Hindu festival which has been celebrated since centuries throughout India and foreign countries as well. Navaratri honours the great Goddess Durga. It begins on the first new moon in early autumn and culminates on the tenth lunar day with the celebration of Dussehra or Vijayadashami.

The tradition of Navaratri is about Devi Mahatmya, an Indian script from the Markandeya Purana. In this text, Goddess Durga, who encompasses all nine forms of Devi, spent nine days in battle with demon Mahishasura. The goddess Durga defeated the demon on the tenth day, in a conquest of light over darkness.

People worship the eternal power by fasting for nine days and by moving around the goddess by creating energy circle, traditionally known as Garba. The divine has their own language; you have to be silent to understand it! Though godly and evil powers are within, but power of the divine destroys the evil...