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Durga Puja 2018: Wishes, messages and images to share on WhatsApp to greet your loved ones
As we welcome Goddess Durga, here are some messages and images for you to wish your loved ones on the special occasion.
India, a country known for its diverse culture and festivals. One such festival is just around the corner. Durga Puja, also known as Durgotsav is a Hindu festival which reveres the Goddess Durga. It is celebrated across India and also in Nepal where it is called Dashain. The festival is observed in the Hindu calendar month of Ashvin, typically September or October of the Gregorian calendar, and is a multi-day festival that features elaborate temple and stage decorations (pandals), scripture recitation, performance arts, revelry, and processions.
Durga Puja festival marks the battle of goddess Durga with the shape-shifting, deceptive and powerful buffalo demon Mahishasura, and her emerging victorious. Thus, the festival depicts the victory of good over evil, but it also is in part a harvest festival that marks the goddess as the motherly power behind all of life and creation. The Durga Puja festival dates coincide with Dussehra which is observed by other traditions of Hinduism, where the Ram Lila is enacted, wherein, the victory of Rama is marked and effigies of demon Ravana are burnt. The festival begins on the first day with Mahalaya, marking Durga's advent in her battle against evil. Starting with the sixth day, the goddess is welcomed. The festival ends of the tenth day of Vijaya Dashami, when with drum beats of music and chants. Hindu communities start a procession carrying the colourful clay statues to a river or ocean and immerse them, as a form of goodbye and her return to divine cosmos and Mount Kailash.
The festival is an old tradition of Hinduism, though it is unclear how and in which century the festival began. In the contemporary era, the importance of Durga Puja is as much as a social festival as a religious one wherever it is observed. On the occasion of Durga Puja, here are some WhatsApp messages and pictures for you and your loved ones.
Meanwhile, like every year, this year too Durga Puja celebrations are going to be grand in the country. The well-known pandals have geared up to celebrate the event with religious fervour. Goddess Durga symbolises power and purity.
