23-09-14 TUESDAY NAVARATHRI BEGINS FROM 24 TH TILL 3-10 14 FOR 9 DAYS KEEP KOLU TO DAY EVENING • Navaratri Puja begins on the Bhadrapada Amavasi day or Puratasi Amavasai day, a day before Navratri begins. In the evening, Kalasha or Purna Kumbha is prepared. This is an invitation to Goddess to enter your home. • Purna Kumba or Kalash ( In Sombu fill Rice, keep coconut above the rice, keep Mavilai if available one coin ) is kept on a kolam in such a place that there is space behind to keep the Bommai Kolu. You can attach a face of Goddess to the Purna Kumbha and decorate the Kumbha with jewelry, turmeric, sandal paste, flowers etc. (Coins ,Mango Leaves ,Raw Rice ,Coconut ,Two Red cloth ,2 Flower garlands or flowers • Those who do not keep Kolu, keep the Kalash in the Pooja room. • Betel leaves, Betel nuts, a coconut is placed in front of the Kalasha. Cooked rice or boiled and sweetened milk is kept as prasadam or neivedya in front of the Kalasha. • This Kalasha is to be kept for next nine days – it symbolizes Goddess. • A lamp is lit every evening and morning for nine days. • Normal puja is performed. Navratri Puja Begins Women perform all the pujas during Navratri. • You have already installed the Goddess in the form of Purna Kumbha. Light a lamp morning and evening on all nine days. • Elaborate pujas are conducted in the evening. • Other women are invited on any one of the evening. • The first three days is dedicated to Goddess Durga. • The next three days is dedicated to Goddess Lakshmi. • The final three days is dedicated to Goddess Saraswathi. • Fresh kolams are done on all nine days. • Shlokas that are recited on nine days include Durga Ashtotaram, Devi Mahatmiyam, Shyamala Dhandakam, Lakshmi Sahasranama, Lakshmi Ashototaram, Lalitha Sahasranama, Saraswathi Stotram, Saraswathi Ashototaram. • Sholakas are recited while performing the puja. Sweets and neivedya prepared are shared with neighbors, relatives and friends. A kannika (young girl) is invited and she is given lunch and new clothes on the first day. Some people do the Kannika Pooja it on all nine days. The lamp is diffused after the puja daily. The puja concludes on the ninth day evening. Magha Navaratri: Magha Navaratri, also referred as Gupta Navaratri, is nine days dedicated to the nine forms of Shakti (Mother Goddess) in the month of Magha (January–February). Magha Navaratri is observed during the Magha Shukla Paksha (waxing phase of moon). • Durga, the inaccessible one • Bhadrakali • Amba or Jagadamba, Mother of the universe • Annapoorna devi, The one who bestows grains (anna) in plenty (purna: used as subjective) • Sarvamangala, The one who gives joy (mangal) to all (sarva) • Bhairavi • Chandika or Chandi • Lalita • Bhavani • Mookambika. • First three days The goddess is separated as a spiritual force called Durga also known as Kali in order to destroy all our impurities. • Second three days The Mother is adored as a giver of spiritual wealth, Lakshmi, who is considered to have the power of bestowing on her devotees inexhaustible wealth, as she is the goddess of wealth. Final three days The final set of three days is spent in worshiping the goddess of wisdom, Saraswati. In order to have all-round success in life, believers seek the blessings of all three aspects of the divine femininity, hence the nine nights of worship. Kolu-Golu During the festival of Navratri in South India, it is customary in the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, as well as in some Tamil communities within Sri Lanka, to display a “Kolu” (also Golu, or Bombe Habba or Bommai Kolu or Bommala Koluvu). This is an exhibition of various dolls and figurines in odd (usually 7, 9, or 11) numbered tiers (“padis”). On the 9th day (Saraswati Puja), special pujas are offered to Goddess Saraswati – the divine source of wisdom and enlightenment. Books and musical instruments are placed in the puja and worshipped as a source of knowledge. Also, tools are placed in the pooja as part of “Ayudha Pooja”. Vehicles are washed and decorated, and puja is performed for them.The 10th day, “Vijayadasami” – is the most auspicious day of all. It was the day on which evil was finally destroyed by good. It marks a new and prosperous beginning. New ventures started on this day are believed to flourish and bring prosperity. Kids often start tutoring on this day to have a head start in their education. In the evening of “Vijayadasami”, any one doll from the “Kolu” is symbolically put to sleep and the Kalasam is moved a bit towards North to mark the end of that year’s Navaratri Kolu. Prayers are offered to thank God for the successful completion of that year’s Kolu and with a hope of a successful one the next year. Then the Kolu is dismantled and packed up for the next year. 1. Durga Lakshmi Saraswathi Music youtube/watch?v=tJ12hklDb0k 2. Mangala Navarathri Music youtube/watch?v=r8lN5HfCI-U
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