India is often called the land of festivals and there are lots of festivals which we celebrate just like a few days back we said goodbye to our beloved Lord Ganesha after ten days of the long festival. Now devotees are ready to welcome their Goddess Durga Mata. They started sending messages to their loved ones and use navratri whatsapp status on their whatsapp. This year Navratri starts from 21st September to 29th September 2017. People celebrate Navratri with full enthusiasm.
In Navratri, devotees worship Maa Durga and her nine forms of manifestations. Each day they worship different from of Maa Durga. Like other festivals Navaratri comes in a season, it comes twice in a year first called chaitya Navratri which comes in summer and second called sharadh navratri which comes in winter. Sharad Navratri is more popular than Chaitaya Navratri.
Navratri is very much famous in the cities like Gujarat, West Bengal, and Mumbai. In west Bengal, Bengalis celebrate four days long festival, in which they do preparation before 2-3 months, setting up various pandals, activities like singing, dancing, painting etc. People purchase new clothes and show their simple joy. Durga puja have a different significance in Bengal, however, they have also worship Maa Durga but with their own tradition. Bengalis host lavish Durga puja in pandals with awful goddess Durga Idol is very much popular in the India. When Tourist from different countries visits in the season of Navratri they never forget to visit Kolkata.
In north people celebrate Navratri by performing few scenes of Ramayana. People perform some famous scenes of Ramayana on stage. In Mumbai, people celebrate Navratri and dance together. In Gujarat, devotees perform their traditional dance that is garbha and dandiya. Dandiya is played with the two bamboo sticks whereas garbha dance is performed in circles with changing partners.
Navratri is a festival marks the battle of Maa Durga with the powerful demon Mahishasura. The evil mahishasura performed various yags and prayers to seek the boon of Lord Brahma. To see his devotion Lord Brahma pleased him with many boons. Lord Brahma gave him a boon that his death would only happen by women. After getting this Mashishasura become egoistic thinking that no women would ever kill him and in his ego, he started killing lots of innocent people. He started a wage war aging devas, and then devas approached lord Shiva, Bhrams, and Vishnu for help. To kill mahishasura, these trinities combined their divine energies and created a woman called Maa Durga. Goddess led the Battle against him and killed him.
Navratri festival marks the victory of good over evil and with that, it is also a big part of the festival. Its shows the motherly power of Goddess Maa Durga, giving rise to all life and creation.
“Goddess DurgaMaa Mother of all, Goddess DurgaMaaProtecter of us Let us dance for Her Let us sing for her Happy Navratri Celebration.”
“Good fortune, Good health, Happy life, All these are my wishes for you this Navratri! Have a great one!”
“May the Lord Durga bless you a year full of wealth, success and prosperity. Have a Happy Navratri!”
“It is Navratri festival Festival for Goddess Durga Let us dance and Celebrte This Auspicious Day Happy NavRatri…”
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