We are so busy living a life doing things to make ourselves our mind happy. The mind however is in a restless state and so does not really appreciate our success in life more than a few moments. Mind constantly is anxious of the future or brooding or ruminating over the past events that occurred in life. It is never at the present moment enjoying the state of Awareness, the source of happiness and "Bliss".  without Awareness.

Our state of  identity of Awareness. Awareness is our existence. Not knowing Awareness is not knowing ourselves. It is a pity to live life to know all sciences and not knowing about own own Self. Vedic tradition gives the route map to know about our own Self. Through festivals we are given time to be aware of our own Self.

Navarathri or Nine nights in a year we spend time tracing our roots of origin, the Self.  Observing the festival by understanding the purpose boost our inner evolution. We will discuss here the symbolism of the festival and how it connects to our inner evolution. We all have the doubts about where do we start and how to start this inner evolution. Deep inside some where we all have this inner quest, unfortunately it is clouded when we identify ourselves with our common problems in life. We live and die without catering to the desire of inner quest. Seldom do we understand that we are born to continue our inner quest. But we become so caught up in dealing only with the life problems and forget to accomplish our life purpose.

Navarathri is a great festival giving  us the opportunity to dedicate just nine nights in a year to do small steps in our inner quest. There is no special efforts to be taken except just be aware of the importance of the festival and self reflecting that in our activities till the next years Navarathri and so we gradually progress every year.

Celebrating Navarathri and doing the rituals make only a Infinitesimally  smaller progress in our inner journey. We try our best to help you here to understand the the true meaning in celebrating Navarathri by doing the rituals. Observing the festival rituals lights up the steps that we should undertake in knowing our Self.

It is very important to understand the few terms to deeply understand about Navarathri. If we understand the core theme about the nature of the mind, the role of intellect and about Awareness, we can appreciate the deep symbolic significance of celebrating Navarathri.