Jumbangla Desk : Autumn Durga Puja, the main religious festival of the Hindu community, ended on Sunday with Vijaya Dasami and idol worship all over the country including the capital.
Goddess Durga was bid farewell this morning by offering a mirror. Later, idol worship started from 4 pm.
According to traditional religious beliefs, the main significance of Vijaya Dashami is to give up the demonic instincts of the human mind, desire, anger, violence, lust. The purpose of this event is to establish peace in the world by renouncing these instincts and bonding with each other.
With the arrival of 'Anandamayi' on the sixth tithi through Chandipath, Bodhan and Adhivas, Sharidiya Durgotsava, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community of the country, started from last October 9. For the next 5 days, devotees pay respects to Goddess Durga through puja-archana in pujamandaps across the country including the capital. The festival ends with the idol sacrifice on the tenth tithi.
This year Goddess Durga arrives on a swing or palanquin. The result of this arrival of the goddess will be plague. Which is not a good sign. Also the goddess will travel to heaven on a ghota or a horse. According to the scriptures, if the movement or arrival of the goddess is missed, the results are scattered. According to the Shastras this Ghotak Gaman indicates social and political disturbances. It indicates war, idolatry, Ashanti, revolution.
According to Sanatan Dharma belief, the goddess returned to her husband's home in Kailasa in Swargaloka through Bisarjan. Next year in autumn he will come again to this Dharani which is his father's house. All security measures are taken by the law and order forces to dispose of the idol.
In a farewell gesture, the idols were placed in a row one by one in the Buriganga river.
At the same time, in the suburbs of the capital, the Turag River is sometimes abandoned. There was a police patrol on the road and a naval police patrol on the river. Fire service teams are also on duty.
Meanwhile, in the afternoon, a colorful Vijaya procession was taken out by the joint initiative of the Pooja Celebration Parishad and the Metropolitan Public Pooja Committee. To take part in the Vijaya Sobhayatra and idol burial, the devotees started gathering at Palashir intersection with idols in trucks from pujamandaps in different areas of the capital.
Later, hundreds of trucks left for Sadarghat with idols. Starting from Dhakeshwari, the Vijaya Shobha Yatra reaches Sadarghat via Shaheed Minar, High Court, Police Head Quarters, Golap Shah Mazar, Court area. Police were on alert in the streets and buildings. The crowd of visitors along the road was eye-catching.
Although most of the idols of M.P. have been abandoned, the idol of Dhakeshwari temple has been kept. But the flowers, bel leaves and pots of the goddess used in the puja are sacrificed.
According to custom, after desecrating the idol, water (shantijal) is taken from it in the Mangalghat and it is again kept in the heart. Next year again this peace water is made from the heart, it will be kept in the idol from the pot and worshiped. After the evening aarti at the Ramakrishna Mission, idols are immersed in the mission pond. After that the devotees take Shantijal and make Mishti Mukh.
This year, Durga Puja was held in 31 thousand 461 mandaps across the country. The number of pujas in Dhaka city is 252. Besides the administration, every puja celebration committee also takes security measures to ensure smooth celebration of autumn festival in these mandaps. CCTV cameras are installed in each mandap and volunteer teams are formed to guard the mandap.
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