Do’s and Don’t’s of Navratri Festival

As the festival of Navratri is celebrated with zeal and faith all over the country following nine days of fasting by worshipping Goddess Durga, some Navratri remedies must be kept in mind to achieve the blessings of Goddess Durga and her nine or ten forms.

Some of Do’s which should be kept in mind:

Some rules for prayer to reach the deity properly are:

• The prayer room should be cleaned before performing prayer with use of Gangajal also.
• After cleaning and next to the idol make a rangoli on the floor.
• Put a candle or a ‘deep’ near the idol. It should be placed left to the idol.
• Intense stick should be burnt to the right of idol.
• Try to plant some wheat in your own home.
• Put a pot or kalash on rangoli which is made of clay or copper rangoli having water and coconut in it while enchanting "aing hring kling chamundaaye vichhe" mantra.
•  When doing the prayers believer’s face should be in the proper South-East direction.
• Also place some kind of Prasad in the form of sweet and put some sandalwood near the idol with flowers.
• A Woman in the house needs to bathe the idol with water and milk, put clothes on her and some makeup.
• Before starting prayer the believer should invite the Goddess and ask her to absolve their wrong deeds and accept your worship if some mistake is made by them unknowingly.
• While reading the everyday the procedure is to read first chapter and then last on first day, after that second and second last on second day, in this manner and twice read the seventh chapter.

With Navratri remedies some of the things should not be done while the prayers and fasting of Navratri such as:

• Don’t eat in excess, try to control your hunger.
• Do not take non vegetarian food during fasts.
• Eat only after evening prayer and make sure no one is hungry after the evening prayer.
• Leather items should not be used during this period as this signifies the killing of animals which is strictly prohibited in Hindu religion.
• Do not forget the right way of reciting the durga-saptashati lesson or else the prayers would not reach to the Goddess.
• If you have to leave your house during this Navratri period, do not form the pot or ‘kalash’.
• Avoid any kind of intimacy with your partner.
• Leave your shoes at your doorstep; do not enter your home wearing them.
• Do not meet the people who are non-vegetarian and take alcohol during these sacred days.

Meditation is also an aid during this period to remove bad luck from family and house. After meditation, recite: "Om Hring Dum Durgaaye Namaha".

In order to achieve the blessings of “Durga Devi” and her different forms the mantras should be recited clearly and properly with whole devotion in the Goddess. If the fasts would be kept as a benefit for believer’s health not as a burden then definitely the fruits and blessing will be bestowed on believer’s life.

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