Ya Devi Sarva ..Bhuteshu..
Srishti Rupesha...Namastasayi...Namo Namaah....!!
That's what you hear all 5 days starting from Mahashasti...if you are in Bengal.. or anywhere where Durga Puja is celebrated...Last year I gave a surprise to my parents by showing up at home late night during puja..it was wonderful to see there smile..This year puja is late..but will walk through the memoirs of last year..
Shashti - the day Ma Durga comes home after fighting the deamon 'Mahishashur'. She comes home for 5 days to relax after the tedious fight and victory over him... As a ritual on shasti, she is given all her abhushan (weapon and tools) for the next 5 days she stays with us. Unlike Mahabharath and Ramayan, I find extremely mythological...I have failed to understand the real connection between Dusherra (the real return of King Rama) and Bijoydashmai or Durga Puja. Although, there is a mention that Rama worships Durga, before heading to Lanka for the final fight after Laxman was captured and attacked by Ravana. Am yet to figure out the parallel or the connection between these two stories...the mythology and the reality...
1 comment:
Thoughtful post. An apt title.
Just the other day in my office a lebanese colleage overheard us discuss about Dusherra and wanted to know about the festival. To which a one of us replied saying that Lord Krishna used to dance with the gopikas durind these nine nights. I thought it was suppposed to mark end of the asura killed by Mother after nine days of fierce battle. And there was another who said it marked the return of Lord Rama. Now we all were confused!!!
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