{"id":2689,"date":"2017-09-23T01:55:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T20:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2017-09-23T01:55:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T20:25:16","slug":"navratri-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2017\/09\/23\/navratri-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Navratri festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Dear Editor,<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Navratri festival of 9 days gives the message that we are all children of the Divine Mother Goddess. The worship of God in the form of Mother is a unique contribution of Hindu philosophy. The concept of worshipping Mother Goddess is a universal perception. Devi is considered to be the source of enormous energy as she is all-pervasive in strength while through her incarnation it symbolises Shakti and the people invoke Shakti as a life force of the universe.<br \/>\nHindus view man and woman as the two wings of the same bird. Thus, a man is considered incomplete without a woman, since &#8220;it is not possible for a bird to fly on only one wing&#8221; as Swami Vivekananda had said. Through the worship of God in the form of Mother, Hinduism offers a unique reverence to womanhood. Just as a child considers its mother to be all-powerful, and capable of doing anything for the child, a devotee too believes that the Divine Mother is an epitome of compassion and omnipotence, one that provides eternal guidance and protection with Her invisible arms.<br \/>\nOne would find that festivals like Navaratri in Gujarat symbolise people&#8217;s cultural, social and religious aspirations. They help people to live a fuller and better life, remove monotony and provide healthy recreation. They promote unity, fellow-feeling, self-discipline and austerity.<br \/>\n<strong>Yours,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Vinod C. Dixit<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ahmedabad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor, The Navratri festival of 9 days gives the message that we are all children of the Divine Mother Goddess. The worship of God in the form of Mother is a unique contribution of Hindu philosophy. The concept of worshipping Mother Goddess is a universal perception. Devi is considered to be the source of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-readers-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}