This weekend is all about Worshipping - Celebrating Navratri.
India is known as land of festival, with many cultural fest to celebrate. Rightly so, today, Sunday 22 Oct'23 is the 8th day of 9 days festival of Goddess Durga. The 9 days festival is known as Navratra and mark worshipping of Goddess Shakti (ma durga).
an incarnation of “Goddess Durga” is worshipped to celebrate the day of her victory over Mahishasura, and the ultimate victory of 'Good over Evil.”
As the festival is ongoing in India, every one is busy in celebrating in their own way and I have not done anything different. Ask any person what they have done on weekend and everyone would have a common answer of worshipping lord Durga or visiting a temple to pay their respect. And I did so visiting the temple to offer my respect and prayers.
We refer Goddess Durga as Ma Durga, Ma is referring to mother. Goddess Durga is mother of all.
our village temple
Visiting a temple is common practice but during these special occasion it worth more than anything. Last three have special significance and extreme rush any Indian temple is very common. During Navratra many people observe fasting for entire 9 days. They abstain themselves from any cereals and relies only on fruits and juices and milk. (I am one of them). It is the time when shops in the market sees a high demand and gets over crowded. Everyone like to do shopping for their famely to celebrate the festival.
There were many other customs and rituals at every other place. At my home, we have our own worshipping. Apart from visiting temple, it is important to offer prayer at home too. So we have our worshipping at our ancient worship place. With kalash and diyas and praying for thr well being of everyone.
While the priest perform all the rituals there is some one from the family sits along with him for entire 9 days. As we are getting to end of the festival, last few days are quite chaotic with many things to complete. Gents and ladies all were busy in their own way to offer prayers to the Goddess. The main worshipping starts on the 7th day called saptami. That was on Saturday and we had some special peasadam
Today is very busy, still I am managing to make post thanks to the rush in the temple. We still have lot of preparation for the day. And evening prayer around 7 PM. So looking at everything you might have observed how much we are occupied. After long our weekend are so meaning full.
That's so cool. I wish to see all those decorations from different places. And oh, fasting for more than a week? That could be a challenge (at least for me)
When there is faith and devotion...everythingnis possible....9 days is manageable with fruits and juices and milk....it is not ma dotary though...depends upon people to people
That's absolutely true. I think it's great way to get yourself to detox during fasting. Without these occasion it would be difficult to actually put yourself to it.
Happy Navratra. I hope you have a nice celebration. The temple and offerings look very colourful. Does one family member stay at the temple for 9 days or visits daily?
When the worship.is done at home one lesson remain there through out the 9 days....no.body stays in temple people generally visit to offer prayers
What a beautiful celebration with all those colours and the meaning that every detail has, I hope you have a wonderful celebration @steemflow ❤️
Thanks...these days are very auspicious for us...so the celebration is big...infact the celebration just begun as we have Diwali festival to follow soon
Enjoy it very much, big hugs!✨
Thanks
You are welcome✨
I really enjoying learning about Navratra festival, thank you. I do love to hear about the many ways in which people celebrate life.
Really lovely photos as well xx
This is just a glimpse from a village area...there is nother level of celebration AR the city with more decoration and glamour
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