Navratri 2019: What is the significance of the different colours of Navratri? Find out

Navratri started on the 29th of September. This festival is celebrated all over our country in different ways but with a lot of splendour and faith. Navratri means nine nights and during the span of these nine days, we celebrate the nine incarnations of Goddess Durga. The story behind this festival is worth a read. During these days, people offer prayers to the Goddess and keep a fast in order to please the goddess and prove their faith and devotion. Other than this, people dance and celebrate this festival with a lot of joy and love. The Gujarati dance form, Garba is very popular during Navratri. People go shopping and dress up for Garba and every day there is a colour theme for clothes and while most of you think it's just a theme, it actually isn't. There is some significance behind these colours for the nine nights of Navratri.

Here's the significance behind the colour theme-

1. The first day of Navratri is for the first incarnation of Goddess Durga which is believed to be Goddess Shailputri. For this day the colour is orange. You can dress up in a bright shade of orange for this day.

2. Goddess Brahmacharini is the second form of Goddess Durga and white is the colour for the second day of Navratri. White is said to be associated with Goddess Brahmachanrini.

3. For the third day of Navratri is colour is red. This colour is associated with the third form of Goddess Durga which is Goddess Chandraghanta.

4. On the fourth day of Navratri, people worship Goddess Kushmanda. The colour associated with this Goddess is royal blue which is why people wear this shade of blue on this day.

5. This day is devoted to worship Goddess Skandamata who is the fifth incarnation of Goddess Durga. The colour of this day is yellow.

6. The sixth form of Goddess Durga is Goddess Kaalratri. The devotees should wear green coloured clothes on this day because Goddess Kaalratri is associated with this colour.

7. Goddess Katyayani is the seventh incarnation of Goddess Durga and she is associated with grey colour. This is why the colour for the seventh day of Navratri is grey.

8. Goddess Durga's eighth form was Goddess Mahaguri. She is associated with purple colour which is why purple is the colour of the second last day of Navratri.

9. The last day, that is, the ninth day is also known as Navami. On this day the people worship Goddess Siddhidatri who is the ninth incarnation of Goddess Durga. The colour of this day of Navratri is Peacock Green.