🕉 #Navratri
Day 2:
NAVADURGA - 2/9 - Maa Brahmacharini
'Brahma'-penance, 'Charini' -female follower. Brahmacharini - one who performed ‘Tapasya’.
Goddess Parvati,being born to Himavan, King of Himalayas, did severe Tapasya for 1000’s of years to attain Bhagwan Mahadev 🚩1/5
🕉 Rishi Narada who advised Ma Parvati to perform penance.She gave up water, food & survived consuming leaves, towards the end she had nothing. For this reason, she is also known as Aparna. Bhagwan Shiva pleased by her devotion accepted Ma Parvati as his wife🚩2/5
🕉 Maa Brahmacharini is governs Planet of Lord Mangal which brings good fortune. By worshipping the goddess, devotees are blessed with peace, virtue, prosperity, happiness & emancipation, . She is also known as Ma Tapascharini & Uma🚩3/5
🕉 Day of worship: 2nd day of #Navratri
Governing planet: Mangal (Mars)
Flower:Sevvarali/ Oleander
Neivedhyam: Puliyodharai ( Tamarind Rice)
Thithi: Dwitiya ( 2nd day on the lunar fortnight (Paksha)of Hindu calendar )
Kolam: Rangoli by using wet flour
Raagam: Kalyani 🚩4/5
🕉 Mantra : Om Devi Brahmcharinyai Namah (108 times recitation )
Dadhaanaa Kar Padaabhyaamakshmala Kamandalu |
Devi Prasidati Mayi Brahmcharinyanuttamaa.
Meaning: O Goddess Brahmcharini, who holds Rudraksha Mala & Kamandalu in her hands,shower your grace on me 🚩5/5 #JaiMataDi
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🕉 #Navratri -9 Nights of Worshipping Ma Durga:
Day 3/9 - Maa Chandraghaṇṭā
‘Chandra’ -moon, ‘ghanta’- means bell-shaped. Goddess wears a half-moon on her head which is in the shape of a bell .She is also known as Chandika because of her ferocious form & warrior stance🚩1/5
🕉 2. After years of penance by Ma Parvati,Bhagwan ShivJi agreed to marry her & went to her house with an army of gods, mortals, ghosts, sivaganaas, sages etc. Parvati’s parents saw Bhagwan, fainted seeing his huge body,long hair, serpent on his neck & tiger skin as clothes🚩
🕉 3. Ma Parvati to match up to Bhagwan,then took the form of Chandraghanta as to not let him feel insulted. She requested him to take a charming form so that her parents would accept him who then appeared as a prince, well dressed with jewels. The marriage then took place🚩
🕉 #Thread#Navratri DAY 1: MAA SHAILAPUTRI
Goddess Durga is worshipped in 9 different forms as Nava Durga. Each God has a different form & a special significance.
Lord Brahma gives these nine names of Nava Durgā in Devi Mahatmyam 🙏#JaiMataDi 1/6
🕉 NAVADURGA - 1/9 1. MAA SHAILAPUTRI
"Shail" means mountains and “Putri" means daughter, is the first Nava Durga. Parvathi, the daughter of the King of Mountains, married to Lord Shiva after performing a severe penance 🚩 2/6
🕉 In her previous birth she was the daughter of Daksha Prajapathi. In order to marry Bhagwan Mahadev she sacrificed her life in Yagna Vatika to incarnate as Maa Shailaputri.
Moon is believed to be the provider of all fortunes and is governed by Goddess Shailaputri 🚩3/6
🕉 #GaneshChaturthi
Do You Know why the ritual of getting Bhagawan GaneshJi home started?
Maharishi VedVyasJi wrote Mahabharat in poetry form. He was unable to write it in Prose Form. So he requested Bhagwan GaneshJi to do the task for him 🚩1/4
🕉 The process of writing was going to take days and nights, this would have tired GaneshJi & he was not to take even water during this writing. This would have raised temperature of Lord's body. So Maharishi VyasJi applied paste of mud on GaneshJi’s body🚩2/4
🕉 On Bhadrapad Shukla Chaturthi the writing started & ended on Anant Chaturthi. At the end of the writing on Anant Chaturdashi, Maharishi VyasJi saw that Lord Ganesh's body temperature had risen a lot, So he immersed the Lord in water to cool him down & wash off the mud🚩3/4
🕉 #KrishnaJanmashtami#Thread 5,000yrs Guruvayur Temple,#Kerala -Abode of Lord Guruvayurappan-Bhagawan Krishna as seen by parents VasudevJi & Devaki at His Birth.The Ancient Main Murthy is made of highly powerful stone -Patala Anjanama having healing & miraculous properties🚩1/4
🕉Ancient Guruvayur temple in built in typical Kerala Temple architecture- On Kerala NewYear Vishu,Sun’s rays fall on Lord Guruvayurappan’s Feet & Lord can be seen from Entrance.Bhagawan Krishna stands with 4 hands carrying Shankh-conch,Chakra- discus,Gadha-Mace&Padma -lotus🚩2/4
🕉Lord Krishna asked 2 sages to take this Murthy created by Lord Vishnu from Dwarka Temple while Dwaraka was being destroyed &install it in Kerala.Lord Krishna’s Murthy was brought by VayuDeva & Brihaspati & placed in Guruvayur -a merger of both names-Guru -Brihaspati & Vayu🚩3/4
🕉 #Thread
Today is Aadi Perukku - Monsoon festival celebrated on 18th day of Tamil month of Aadi (July- August). The festival is dedicated to the all the perennial river basins of TN & major lakes water source areas & pays tribute to water's life-sustaining properties 🚩 1/4
🕉 Aadi Perukku celebrates the water rising levels due to the monsoon - season for sowing, rooting, planting of seeds & vegetation. For blessings of prosperity & happiness, nature worship is done in the form of Amman/ Devi Murthis to shower Nature’s bountiful grace 🚩 2/4
🕉 Adi Perukku festival is observed mainly by women in Tamil Nadu as a water-ritual, to honour nature.
in association with fertility & reproduction as both natural & human performed on the banks of Rivers, which are rice-cultivation tracts 🚩3/4
🚩Today is Holy Paush #PutradaEkadashi that falls in Shukla Paksha during Pausha month. Devotees worship Sudarshan Chakradhari Bhagwan Vishnu. Most significant for childless couples observing #PutradaEkadashi fast acc to traditions will get blessed with a baby 🚩1/4 @SriRamya21
🕉 2. Bhavishya Purana says #PutradaEkadashi story as told by Bhagwan Krishna to King Yudhishthira. Once,King of Bhadravati, Suketuman & Queen Shaibya were sad as they had no children. Frustrated, the king left his kingdom & went to the forest unknown to everyone🚩
🕉 3. After wandering for days, Suketuman reached the ashram of some sages on the bank of Lake Manasarovar on #PutradaEkadashi The sages revealed that they were the 10 divine Vishvadevas. They advised the king to observe the #PutradaEkadashi fast to have a son🚩