After nine days pooja for our beloved Ganesha and immersion, here we are ready for Durga pooja. This is a very big festival that will be celebrated for ten days long. Among that last five days were important and celebrated offering pooja and many more things on these days.
For Bengalis, Durga puja is very important before they do any new things in their life. For this Dussera they will set up pandals, singing, dancing, gets ready for poetry recitations, etc near big idols that are arranged just like Ganesh Navaratri. Since many years and of course centuries it had been a lot of significance to celebrate the Durga puja for Bengalis.
All the ten days will be celebrated with great joy and enthusiasm. This celebration of Durga puja and Navaratri are being done with great significance.
Durga Pooja Significance:
The significance of celebrating this festival is, in remembrance of the death of Mahishasura who is killed by Durga matha. Initially, Mahishasura who is a king with severe Tapas and prayers will call lord Brahma and take a boon from him. The boon is, he will not be killed by any man how powerful he is. He then thought the woman is very weak and can`t kill him at any cost.
After this boon, he waged a war against the Devas with his army. The Devas with fear approached the Trinity of Shiva, Brahma, and Vishnu. The Trinity gods then gave rise to Goddess Durga to kill Mahishasura. Thus the boon of Brahma is fulfilled that he will be killed in hands of a woman.
The Durga Puja festival is a ten-day event, of which the last five marks the popular practices. The festival begins with Mahalaya, a day where Shakta Hindus remember the loved ones who have died, as well the advent of Durga. The next most significant day of Durga Puja celebrations is the sixth day, called Shashthi where the local community welcome the goddess and festive celebrations are inaugurated. On the seventh day (Saptami), eighth (Ashtami) and ninth (Navami), the goddess along with Lakshmi, Saraswati, Ganesha, and Kartikeya are revered and these days mark the main Puja (worship) with recitation of the scriptures, the legends of Durga in Devi Mahatmya and social visits by families to elaborately decorated and lighted up temples and pandals (theatre like stages).
Durga Puja Dates 2017:
| DATE | FESTIVAL |
| 26th September 2017 | Durga Puja – Shashthi |
| 27th September 2017 | Durga Puja – Saptami |
| 28th September 2017 | Durga Puja – Mahashtami |
| 29th September 2017 | Durga Puja – Navami |
| 30th September 2017 | Durga Puja – Vijaya Dasami |
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