A Festive Discovery!

Just wanted to add my discovery from this festive season...the first year of my marriage and then this year was the one I was fasting for all nine days...During that time I was new to this ritual of fasting for all nine days and I had my husband accompanying me on the hunger pangs, so dint bother much to think of the whys...This year, since I had nothing to eat and no company..I had a lot of time to ponder... I was wondering why do we fast...and spent a good amount of time reading anything related to the nine Goddesses, we fast for the nine days.

It was amazing to know that we fast because, there is a seasonal change and we need to prepare our system to better deal with the changing weather. So we fast, we fast to de toxify, we do not even eat the regular food, so that our body gets treated the same way as crop rotation treats land. We condition the walls of our stomach to different food so that the coming season it is all set to take up everything with a boosting immune system.

And what about the Goddesses.. I have always believed that we do not worship a form when we worship a diety ...WE WORSHIP the QUALITY associated...Like we do not worship Ganesh, we respect his knowledge, we do not worship Hanuman, we look up to the strength he owns, we do not worship Krishna, we remind ouselves of the love we are surrounded by in the form of Gopis, not Surya Dev, but his light...Not Rama but his righteousness..Not DEVI but we revere her SHAKTI. Yes....and we fast for all the nine days cos, each day one Goddess representing one quality/feature, wants us to dedicate one day ..atleast one day doing good for that representation of that Goddess. For example the first day of the fasting is dedicated to a Goddess by name "ShailaPutri" who is herself related to nature...directing our shakti towards mother nature atleast for a day...similar concept for all the nine days.

Now! Does'nt that make sense...I think it does and the day people begin to realise why they do what they do, there will be more meaning added to our acts and of course, people will stop quarelling taking a Diety as support, for a Diety is no image, no form, its a quality to be revered, a trait to be respected and incorporated, cos no God represents such a trait like quarreling!!