Navaratri is a festival of nine nights in honor of the Mother Goddess in all her manifestations, including Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati. It is a festival full of worship and dance. The festival ends with Dussehra, the victory of good over evil, the tenth day.
When is Navaratri?
Usually the end of September / beginning of October each year. Navaratri In 2014 September 25 and October 3 begins ending dates of the festival are determined according to the lunar calendar.
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Where does it take place?
The festival is celebrated throughout India, but in different ways. Navaratri celebrations recognized the most extravagant and can be seen in the west of India, across the state of Gujarat and Mumbai. In West Bengal, Navaratri and Dussehra celebrated as Durga Puja.
How is it celebrated?
In western India, Navaratri is celebrated nine nights of dance. Traditional dances of Gujarat, Garba and Dandiya RAAS are known as performed in environments with dancers in colorful dresses. Small stems are decorated dandiyas calls in the Dandiya of RAAS used.
In Mumbai, taking dance floors and clubs throughout the city. While some of them retained a traditional flavor, the introduction of disco dandiya gave Navaratri celebrations in Mumbai glamor with a modern twist. Today, people lose the reins of his dance to a remix fusion of rhythms and loud Hindi pop music.
In Delhi, the role of the Navaratri celebrations are Ramlila games around the city instead. Effigies of demon Ravana towering burnt on Dussehra in the present proceedings. According to Hindu mythology, the Ramayana, early Navaratri, Rama prayed to Durga to give divine power to kill Ravana. He received authority from the eighth day and was finally defeated in Dussehra Ravana.
In southern India, known as Navaratri Golu is celebrated by the display of dolls. The dolls are a symbol of feminine power.
The rituals during Navaratri performed?
Durga, Lakshmi, Saraswati - revered in the nine days of the Mother Goddess in different forms.
Each goddess is worshiped for three days, switch from Durga destroys the negative tendencies. Then comes Lakshmi are good virtues and happiness, and the last is Saraswati, inspired wisdom and spiritual knowledge. Worship, accompanied by fasting, it is morning. Evenings are for celebrating and dancing.
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