Friday 23 October 2015

23rd OCTOBER 2015  DURGA DEVI VISARJAN 

As they shout while taking the idols for immersion: “ Aaschhe bochhor abaar hobey (we are coming back next year)!” It's Kolkata's way of assuring itself that the party is not over yet.

Durga Puja Idol Immersion - Durga Visarjan


Durga Puja festivities came to a ceremonious end on Vijaya Dashmi. This is the day when Mother Durga is supposed to depart to Kailash, thus people bid adieu to the Goddess by smearing of vermilion popularly known as ‘Sindur Khela’, followed by idol immersion.

People flock the Durga Pandals with sweets and vermilion to bid farewell to Goddess Durga and Her four children Ganesha, Karthik, Laxmi & Saraswati whom they worshiped amidst fervor and festivities.

The Bengali women beautifully dressed in traditional attires crowd the Pandals to smear vermilion on the feet of the Goddess and then apply it on each others forehead wishing longevity for their husband's life and prosperity to their family.

After this Goddess Durga and Her children are taken in a long procession with the sounding of drums and trumpets to the rivers banks or the water bodies where idol immersion is to take place.

People who had given their all for the preparation of the idols and pandals and the other devotees then bid adieu to Durgaa Maata with heavy hearts and start waiting patiently to welcome Devi Maa next year.
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Navratri Puja Visarjan Vidhi – How to Do Navratri Visarjan


Navratri Puja Visarjan Vidhi - How to do Navratri Visarjan
After Navratri Puja for 9 days, visarjan is done on last day of Navaratri. Generally, when devotees do visarjan, they are not aware of what to do with Ghat an the things offered during 9 days Puja.
For ease of devotees of Maa Durga, I am telling in this post the very easy visarjan vidhi. You can follow it and get blessings of Maa Durga.

Watch Video of Navratri Puja Visarjan Vidhi

Step By Step Navratri Puja Visarjan Vidhi

1. After worship of kanya (the girl child), take flower and rice in right hand. Say, “O all deities, thanks a lot to come to receive puja. Maa Durga and all deities, please receive my puja, reside again in your divine adobes by giving desired fruits.”
2. Take the coconut placed on ghat as prasad. Eat this coconut as prasad and distribute in your family.
3. Now you should put off the ghat. First, remove the lid of ghat. After that pick the ghat and sprinkle this sacred water of ghat in entire house. Drink it with your family members as prasad. All family member can take bath with rest of this sacred water of ghat.
4. Take out coins from ghat and keep them in your money locker.
5. Take out betel-nut from ghat and take it as prasad. Eat it and distribute it in your family.
6. Pick the throne (Sinhasan) from chawki. Place the throne again on it’s place in your puja room.
7. Take the sari you offered to Maa Durga as prasad. Female members of your family can then wear it.
8. Take ornaments and make-up stuff offered to maa Durga as prasad. Female members can use them.
9. Place idol of Lord Ganesha on it’s place again in your puja room.
10. Take fruits, sweets etc. offered on chawki as prasad. Eat them with your family members.
11. Collect the rice from chawki. Mix it with rice placed on lid of ghat. Feed this rice to birds.
12. Place the picture of Maa Durga again on it’s place in your puja room.
13. Offer some barley sprouts to Maa Durga. Place rest of the sprouts under Peepal tree or flow them in river or a pond.
14. 1 coconut, dakshina (money) and cloth of chawki should be given to a brahmin or pandit of temple.
This way navratri puja is completed with visarjan. Celebrate this Navratri with joy. Wish you all a very happy Navratri.
Shardiya Navratri in Year 2014 is from 25 September 2014 to 3 October 2014. Ghat Sthapana Muhurta on 25 September 2014 will be from 6:31 am to 8:09 am in morning. Also abhijit muhurta for Ghat Sthapna will be between 12:06 to 12:53 pm. 
Durga Visarjan marks the ending of Durga Puja festivities as on this day Maa Durga departs back to her abode (Mount Kailash). A popular tradition of Sindur Khela is performed prior to the immersion. Durga Visarjan is the most eye-catching event in Maharashtra, Bengal and Gujarat and is celebrated with a bang.

Immersion of Maa Durga’s idol

Durga Visarjan is celebrated on the last day of Navratri. On this day, the idols of Maa Durga are worshipped for the last time by their devotees. They put vermilion on the forehead of the Goddess and perform Aarti. Idols of the Goddess are taken out in procession in which the devotees sing and dance praising Maa Durga. “Dhunchi” dance is also performed in front of the Goddess while drummers beat their drums traditionally. A smoking mixture of tinder, camphor, coconut husk (dhuno) and incense are poured inside the brimmed pots of clay (dhunuchi). These pots are held by the devotees in their hands while they sway to the beats of dhakis. The dance gets more intense with the rise in tempo of the dhakis. The idols are finally immersed in the rivers or lakes and the celebration comes to an end. With the immersion of the idols in water the devotees feel sad as the Goddess goes back to her abode after so many days of celebrations and rituals.

In many regions of India, Goddess Durga’s Darpana Visarjan is performed in the morning and idol immersion is done in the evening. On this occasion, families, relatives and friends visit each other and exchange sweets and gifts.

Sindur Khela


Sindur Khela ritual

Married women dress traditionally and put vermilion on their foreheads as a part of their Sindoor Khela Ritual. With this custom they ask Mother Durga to bless longevity to their husbands and prosperity for the family. 

Visarjan Ritual


After performing Udwasan puja, the idols of Goddess Durga are carried on Rath (Chariot) and immersed in water. Before immersing the idols they are placed in the pandals right from the sixth day of Navratri. This ritual is also known as Durga Nimajjan and is generally celebrated on Vijay Dashmi Day. Devotees loudly chant the name of the Goddess and the whole atmosphere itself depicts the importance this day holds.

Durga Visarjan is celebrated on Vijay Dashmi but in some regions of the country it is celebrated on Navami also.

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Kolkata has many faces but during Durga Puja there is no space for anything else but celebration ... and a little bit of sadness.

Gone too soon: Visarjan-time in Kolkata. Photo: Parth Sanyal
Gone too soon: Visarjan-time in Kolkata. Photo: Parth Sanyal
W hat you think of Kolkata depends a lot on how you come to Kolkata. If you come in a train and alight at the Howrah station, you will drive into a city that is a prisoner of its long-standing image — the iconic bridge, trams, hand-pulled rickshaws, stream of labourers propelled into a half-run by the heavy load on their heads, pavements turned into kitchen by poor migrants, crumbling colonial-era buildings giving off a whiff of heritage and decay.
But if you fly down to Kolkata and take the Rajarhat Road into the city, you could be rubbing your eyes in wonder. You will tear through a global-era landscape: upscale high-rises, state-of-the-art offices of IT giants, snazzy malls. North Kolkata, where the city originated, may continue to be a living museum of the olden times, but the metropolis, on the whole, is no longer what you saw in black-and-white Bengali movies. Unemployment is no longer a burning issue. There was a time when high school students, during their exams, were asked to write essays on the subject of unemployment. Load-shedding is a thing of the past. Traffic jam, once Kolkata's best friend, has now become the principle foe of other cities. And Kolkata today has a night life like no other city.
Celebration time
But come Durga Puja and it does not matter what route you take to Kolkata. No matter what your mode of travel, you arrive in a city where celebration is the uniform civil code. From whichever corner you look at it, you will find nothing else but puja pandals , food stalls and a multitude of people out on the roads until the wee hours. It's carnival time. It's a religious event, cultural occasion, music season, literary fair, food festival, fashion show — all rolled into one. Many of the popular songs of R.D. Burman that you listen to today were originally recorded in Bengali as part of Puja albums. And the story for many a celebrated Bengali film had been originally written for the Puja-special edition of local literary magazines.
Sober side
There is, however, a gloomy side to Durga Puja. Bengalis, even though they wait for it all year, actually become very sad once the Pujas begin. Even while they enjoy the five days of festivity, they are also extremely mournful about how quickly it is all going to end. On panchami , they realise that only four more days are left. On sashti , it strikes them that just three more days are left. By saptami , the heart is heavy. On ashtami , there is a lump in the throat. By the end of navami , there are tears in the eyes. They are left with no choice but to look forward to the next year's Puja. It is the looking forward that keeps Kolkata going. As they shout while taking the idols for immersion: “ Aaschhe bochhor abaar hobey (we are coming back next year)!” It's Kolkata's way of assuring itself that the party is not over yet.
BISHWANATH GHOSH
It's a religious event, cultural occasion, music season, literary fair, food festival, fashion show — all rolled into one.
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