Description of a Religious Festival Essay

Write an essay describing a religious festival you celebrated, mentioning what you saw and did in the festival Religion is a collective sense of right and wrong, a shargond outlook created by ceremonies. Most common religion in India is Hinduism. Hindus celebrate thousands of events every year and each in a confusable manner, including chanting prayers to the gods and making sweets. Ram Navmi is similarly one of the event celebrated Hindus. This occasion has great momentousness therefore its a nationwide holiday. It is celebrated ii days after the seven navratras.Navratras are the days of pooja in which Goddess Durga is worshipped by the people for bringing peace and prosperity in their life. People particularly ladies keep fast for the first eight days and open on the ninth day. Goddess Durga have nine different incarnations, worshipped one each day. Havans are done, which is in addition believed by the people that its smoke purify the homes. On the ninth day a bigger havan is done and then ladies in the family misrepresent meals for seven young girls and one boy. These girls are treated with respect as they are considered the different forms of Goddess Durga.They are also given offerings in the form of cash. We also celebrate Ram Navmi and so my mother kept a fast for two days. We could not do havan on the first eight days due to lack of space but on the ninth day we had a pandal built, made up of tent cloth which was all red in glossary which was to give the event its effect supported by thin logs. A pandit was called to conduct the rights and rituals and my mother prepared food for the girls. The eighth day was hectic for me morsel I enjoyed it . my sister and I prepared the invitations cards for the children.They had a silver colored fringe with text in golden and a picture of professional Ganesha with red background. I went to each ones house to invite them. I also went to buy eight gifts and keeping in mind their ages I found all the appropria te gifts. Then came the ninth day, I was woke up from my sleep by the shank sound. I took my bath and got ready for the function. The havan started and gradually the girls also came and there was deluge of tasks poured upon me. I had to bring the bucket full of water to wash the kanyas feet. Then I went to help the pandit with ghee,yoghurt, etc.