Durga Puja Mahotsav
Durga Puja is the annual festival celebrated all over India with great enthusiasm. This auspicious festival is known as Durga Mahotsav, Durgotsava, and Sharodotsava. It would be an amazing moment to see the Grand-Mahotsavas in the country. In modern times, Durga Puja is more important as a social and cultural event in India than a religious one.
Hindu scriptures say the festival celebrates goddess Durga's victory over the shape-shifting asura Mahishasura. So, the festival symbolizes the triumph of good over evil. It is also a harvest festival that honors the goddess as the motherly force behind all life and creation. Other Hindu traditions celebrate Navaratri and Dussehra at the same time as Durga puja.
Worship & Deities
Durga Puja's main goddess worship is Durga, but other important Hindu gods and goddesses are also honored. Firstly, it is Lakshmi Ji, the goddess of wealth and prosperity. Secondly is Saraswati Ji, the goddess of knowledge and music. Next, God is Ganesha, the god of good beginnings. And another is Kartikeya, the god of war (the god of war).
In Bengali and Odia traditions, Mahalaya comes before the festival. It is thought that Mahalaya marks the start of Durga's journey back to her birthplace. On the sixth day (Shasthi), rituals are done to welcome the goddess and start the main celebrations. On the tenth day, called Vijaya Dashami, devotees carry the clay sculpture idols they worship to a river or other body of water and throw them in.
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