Festivals

Navratri
Navratri is celebrated in a large number of Hindu worldwide. The mother goddess is said to appear in 9 forms, and each one is worshipped for a day. These nine forms signify various personalities that the goddess influences us with. The Devi Mahatmya and other texts invoking the Goddess who vanquished demons are cited.

The word Navaratri literally means nine nights in Sanskrit
Nava meaning - Nine
Ratri meaning - Nights.

During these nine nights and ten days, nine forms of Shakti/Devi i.e. female divinity are worshipped.

First three days – DURGA (Goddess of valor)
The goddess is invoked as a spiritual force called Durga also known as kali in order to destroy all our impurities and other things.

Second three days – LAKSHMI (Goddess of Wealth)
The Mother is adored as a giver of spiritual wealth, Lakshmi, who is considered to have the power of bestowing on her devotees inexhaustible wealth. She is the goddess of wealth.

Final three days – SARASWATI (Goddess of knowledge and art). The final set of three days is spent in worshipping the goddess of wisdom, Saraswati. In order to have all-round success in life, believers seek the blessings of all three aspects of the divine femininity, hence the nine nights of worship.

The 9th day is Ayudha Pooja when everyone gives their tools of the trade -- pens, machinery, books, automobiles, school work, etc. a rest and ritually worships them. The tenth day, also known as Vijaya Dasami (day of Victory over evils), is significant to launch new activities or beginning of learning. Many teachers/Schools start teaching Kindergarten children from that day onwards.

Books - I like Most

Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden

In this literary tour de force, novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and shimmeringly exotic world. For the protagonist of this peerlessly observant first novel is Sayuri, one of Japan's most celebrated geisha, a woman who is both performer and courtesan, slave and goddess. We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, where in 1929, she is sold to a representative of a geisha house, who is drawn by the child's unusual blue-grey eyes. From there she is taken to Gion, the pleasure district of Kyoto. She is nine years old. In the years that follow, as she works to pay back the price of her purchase, Sayuri will be schooled in music and dance, learn to apply the geisha's elaborate makeup, wear elaborate kimono, and care for a coiffure so fragile that it requires a special pillow. She will also acquire a magnanimous tutor and a venomous rival. Surviving the intrigues of her trade and the upheavals of war, the resourceful Sayuri is a romantic heroine.

I like this because its both history but its also so emotional. It’s a kind of like a Cinderella story. I saw the Movie – Never as Detailed as a Book but I like the Visuals

Poem - General

Poem - Love

Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection.

Poem - War

War & Peace War is distorting our land and people long time I also have an experience in the war some are the ideas about the war and how our people suffering and how they expectation about the peace and it’s very very far away from them. . . So I write the poem about that under name Samya