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Navarang Navaratri Colors 2012
Navaratri colors to wear
These are the colors as per Maharashtra Times newspaper.
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Navrang Colour, Navrati dates for festival, what are the colors for 2012?
latest information we have about Navratri 2012 colors. If there are any changes we will be updating it very soon:
Please refer with the local newspapers that publish the Navaratri colors
so that you don’t make mistake in dressing for Navratri to office and
prayers.
The nine Navratri colors for 2012 are:
Pratipada - October 16, 2011 (Tuesday) - Red
Dwitiya - October 17, 2012 (Wednesday) - Sky Blue
Tritiya / Chaturthi - October 18, 2012 (Thursday) -Yellow
Panchami - October 19 (Friday) - Green
Sashti - October 20 (Saturday) - Grey
Saptami - October 21 (Sunday) - Orange
Ashtami - October 22 (Monday) - White
Navami - October 23 (Tuesday) - Pink
Vijayadasami - October 24 (Wednesday) - Blue
Note - It is Tritiya and Chaturthi on October 18, 2012 in calendars followed in Gujarat and Maharashtra.
It is Panchami and Sashti on October 20, 2012 in calendars followed in North India.
Thus there are only eight days during Navratri in 2012.
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Not just mishti, bhog for Bengalis this poojo
Even as the clear skies herald the season of the great autumnal celebration (known as Sharodiya Puja) for lakhs of Bengalis in Pune, there is more than just khichudi bhog and mishti (sweets) in store for them this year.
Other than organising the puja in a grand manner, the Kali Bari Samiti in Khadki has decided to hold a similar version of the famous Book Fair (Boi Mela) second time in a row. Durga Puja starts from October 19.
Shubir Sengupta, general secretary of the Kali Bari Samiti, said that the decision to hold the book fair this year was taken post the phenomenal response they received from the people last year. “The Booksellers and Publishers Guild, which conducts the fair on a regular basis, will be organising this fair too,” he said.
Last year, the fair, which was held on an experimental basis, had managed to sell books over Rs4 lakh during the five days of puja.
The fair this year would see publishers displaying their latest publications.
“Though majority of the books would be in Bengali, there would be books in other languages too on display,” Sengupta said.
He added that people had started inquiring about the book fair much prior to this year’s fest.
Sougata Ghosh, a researcher from Pune University, welcomed the decision and said that it would help in propagating the treasure of Bengali literature further. “For us probashi Bangalis (Bengalis residing out of West Bengal), this gives a rare opportunity to reconnect with our roots. This is seriously a good initiative,” he said.
Salutations to the Divine Mother, Durga, who exists in all beings in the form of intelligence, mercy, beauty, who is the consort of Lord Shiva, who creates, sustains and destroys the universe.
The festival of the Mother is observed twice a year, once in the month of Chaitra and then in Aswayuja. It lasts for nine days inhonour of the nine manifestations of Durga. During Navaratri devotees of Durga observe a fast. Brahmins are fed and prayers are offered for the protection of health and property.
The beginning of summer and the beginning of winter are two very important junctions ofclimatic influence. These two periods are taken as sacred opportunities for the worship of the Divine Mother.
They are indicated respectively by the Rama-Navaratri in Chaitra (April-May) and the Durga Navaratri in Aswayuja (September-October). Sri Rama is worshipped during Ramnavmi, and Mother Durga during Navaratri.
The Durga Puja is celebrated in various parts of India in different styles. But the basic aim of this celebration is to propitiate Shakti, the Goddess in Her aspect as Power, to bestow upon man all wealth, auspiciousness, prosperity, knowledge,and all other potent powers.
Whatever be the particular or special request that everyone may put before the Goddess, whatever boon may be asked of Her, the one thing behind all
these is propitiation, worship and linking oneself with Her. There is no other aim. This is
being effected consciously or unconsciously. Everyone is blessed with Her loving mercy and is protected by Her.
Durga Puja or Navaratri commences on the first and ends on the tenth day of the bright half of Aswayuja (September-October). It is held in commemoration of the victory of Durga over Mahishasura, the buffalo-headed demon. The tenth day is called Vijaya Dasami or Dussera (the ‘tenth day’). Processions with Her image are taken out along the streets of villages and cities.
The mother of Durga (the wife of the King of the Himalayas) longed to see her daughter. Durga was permitted by Lord Shiva to visit her beloved mother only for nine days in the year.
The festival of Durga Puja marks this brief visit and ends with the Vijaya Dasami day, when Goddess Durga leaves for Her return to Mount Kailas.
Durga Puja is the greatest Hindu festival in which God is adored as Mother. Hinduism is the only religion in the world which has emphasised to such an extent the motherhood of God.
One’s relationship with one’s mother is the dearest and the sweetest of all human relations. Hence, it is proper to look upon God as the Divine Mother.
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