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...
