Durga Puja Vienna is an important festival that is celebrated all
over India with zeal and huge fanfare. The day is celebrated because on this
day, the goddess killed the dreaded Mahishasura who had rendered havoc not only
planet Earth buteven in the heavens. When not even the most powerful deities
could cause any harm to the demon, Lord Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh combined and
manifested themselves as a powerfulbeautiful goddess who had 10 hands and in
each hand there was a celestial weapon. Though the festival is celebrated
across the country but one can see a totally differentflavour in Bengal where
the festival is celebrated with utmost zeal.
The festival lasts for 9
days and is celebrated in September October when then whether is at its peak
best which further intensifies the joy and celebration of people. All the nine
days differ in significance and each day is eventful accompanied by different
rituals, invocations and offerings. At the end of nine days comes dashmi. It is
a quite eventful day for married women and men alike. Married women play the
vermillion game where they apply a sindoor on each other’s forehead. The
sindhoor signifies the long life of their husbands. Post that they greet the
statue of goddess mahadevi for the last time before she is immersed in water.
The rituals do not end here even the bangles and bracelets and other ornaments
are touched up and finally womengreet each other by offering sweets. Men of same
age embrace each other while the younger men touch the feet of those elder to
them
The vastness and precision
of rituals of Durga Puja Austria is
not a cup of tea for everyone and therefore people who wish to delve deep into
the traditions and precisions of the rituals work really hard to gain some
insight. Even people who wish to get the puja done find it really hard to find
a genuine guru since many of them fraud people and perform false pujas. It is
therefore recommended to do a thorough search on the internet. There are
websites which enlist some of the most established gurus who charge nominally
to perform such pujas.
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