Veera Veera

October 07, 2012

NAVARATHRI FESTIVAL KOLAMS


NAVAVIDHA  KOLAMS  FOR NAVARATHRI FESTIVAL


SIGNIFICANCE OF NAVARATHRI FESTIVAL

         Navarathri means nine nights. Darkness is associated with night. What is this darkness? It is the   darkness of ignorance.   The purpose of the Navarathri celebration is to enable man to get rid of  nine types of darkness which have taken hold of him. When a reference is made to Goddess Devi, it  signifies the unified form of three Goddesses Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswathi. The three together represent Shakthi.
  
         I  have posted nine  kolams  which can be compared to  nine types of devotion (Nava Vidha Bhakthi) and by drawing these kolams infront of bomma kolu can be considered as rendering the Nava-Vidha Bhakthi. I would like to surrender Nava Vidha Bhakthi in the form of these kolams to  Bhagwan  Sri Sathya Sai  Baba(Sai  Matha) for NAVARATHRI.

Each kolam  is  considered   as each  type  of  Devotion.


1.   Shravanam:



 2.  Keerthanam:



3. Vishnu Smaranam:



 4.  Pada Sevanam:





 5.  Archanam:



7.  Saakyam:



   8.  Dhasyam:




9. Atma Nivedanam: