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12 Oct

🕉 #Navratri-9 Nights of Worshipping Ma Durga-
7/9 - Maa Kaalratri- One who is “the Death of Kaal”.
Kaal- Time & death. Goddess Who destroys ignorance & removes darkness. Ma depicts that life also has a dark side – Violent Mother Nature creates havoc & removes all dirt🚩1/5

🕉 In this form Goddess Kaalratri killed Raktabeej. Raktabeej was a demon who could multiply from every drop of his blood which fell on the ground. Goddess Kaalratri killed him by consuming the blood before it could reach the ground and hence conquered him 🚩2/5

🕉 Colour: Blue
Planet : Saturn
Flower: Jasmine
Neivedhyam: Lemon rice
Thithi: Sapthami/ 7 th day of the Lunar fortnight/ Paksha of Hindu Calendar
Kolam: Rangoli With fragrant flowers
Raagam: Bilahari
Mantra : Om Devi Kaalratriyayi Swaha 🚩3/5

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11 Oct

🕉#Navratri
9 nights of Worshipping Ma Durga 🚩
6/9- Maa Katyayani
Sage Katyayana performed severe penance for several years to Ma Durga for having Her as his daughter. Finally his wish was granted & Ma Durga took birth in his clan & So is known as Maa Katyayani 🚩1/4

🕉 Ma Katyayini was worshipped by Bhagwan Vishnu, Shiva & Brahma to destroy Demon Mahishasura, who was troubling Gods. Ma Katyayani, as the powerful & fierce form of Ma Durga vanquished Mahishasura on #VijayaDashami day 🚩2/4

🕉 Governing Planet : Brihaspati
Colour : Pink/Orange/Red Flower: Hibiscus
Neivedhyam: Coconut rice
Thithi: Sashti/ 6 th day of the Lunar Fortnight/ Paksha of the Hindu Calendar
Kolam: Rangoli of Goddess using Gram flour
Raagam: Neelaambari 🚩3/4

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9 Oct

🕉 #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🚩

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8 Oct

🕉 #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

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7 Oct

🕉 #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

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10 Sep

🕉 #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

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