Digest Number 959

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Actually, Navaratri started on Sept. 26th this year. That's why the 5th is

shown as Vijaya Dashmi.

Blessings,

Achintya

- >

> In this year, the dates are from Sep 27th thru Oct 05.

>

> If you were in India on Sep 27th taking Amma's darshan on her

> birthday, then you celebrated the start of Navaratri with darshan

> (read "in great and auspicious style")!

>

> Sep27th thru Oct 05th is actually 9 days only, but for some reason,

> the calendar shows that Oct 5th is VijayaDashmi (10th day). There are

> some complex astrological calculations which I could not figure out,

> whereby 10 days of the festival got crunched into 9 calendar days.

>

> But, I do know this:

> 1st 3 days - Durga Puja

> Next 3 days - Lakshmi pujua

> Last 3 days - Saraswati Puja (of which I know that Oct 3rd was 8th

> day - Ashtami, 4th is 9th - Navami)

>

> 10th day - VijayaDashmi (Oct 5th)

>

> If somebody knows more about how 10 days of the festival have been

> designated only 9 calendar days, please do explain.

>

> Jai Ma!

[Guest guest]

Ammachi, "Connie Habash" <Connie@a...> wrote:

> Actually, Navaratri started on Sept. 26th this year. That's why

the 5th is

> shown as Vijaya Dashmi.

> Blessings,

> Achintya

 

According to the calendar I have from the Hindu Temple of Atlanta,

Navaratri begins on Sep 27th and ends on Oct 5th, hence I mentioned

so earlier.

 

It does not matter what the dates are, I was more interested in

mathematically equating the dates to the # of days.

 

But anyway, I prefer to think it is still the 27th when it began.

Because I like to think that Amma timed her birth such that her 50th

birthday would begin with a bang throughout the world where She

would be worshipped both by her devotees and by people who do not

know Amma in her physical form but are worshipping the Divine Mother

in the form of Durga Devi! So, either way, the festivities covered

all people.

 

sounds silly and romantic, but that's me! lol.

 

Jai Ma!