Kanya Pujan has special significance during Navratri. Devotees complete the fast only after worshiping nine girls as nine goddesses. Devotees offer dakshina according to their ability. This makes the mother happy.
Kanya worship starts from the Saptami of Navratri. On the day of Saptami, Ashtami and Navami, these girls are worshiped as the form of nine goddesses. The feet of the girls are washed and they are fed with dignity. Mother gives blessings of happiness and prosperity to the devotees who do so.
Kanya Pujan has special significance during Navratri. Devotees complete the fast only after worshiping nine girls as nine goddesses. Devotees offer dakshina according to their ability. This makes the mother happy.
Do worship the girl on this day
Kanya worship is important from the saptami itself. But, those who do Devotees fast for a full nine days, according to the dates, only after worshiping Navami and Dashami, do prasad and end the fast by taking prasadam. It is also mentioned in the scriptures that the day of Durgashtami is considered to be the most important and auspicious day for the worship of Kanya.
How to worship a girl
- Invite the girls one day in advance for the worship of the girl.
- It is not proper to bring girls from here and there, especially on the day of worship of girls.
- Girls should be welcomed at home entrance with floral showers along with the whole family. All the nine names of Nav Durga should be cheered.
- Girls should wash their feet with their hands after sitting in a comfortable and clean place, putting their feet in a plate filled with clean water or milk. Ashish should be touched by touching the feet and water or milk that washes the feet of the girls should be applied on their brain.
- Girls should take blessings by touching their feet sitting on a clean and soft posture.
- After that girls should apply Akshat, flowers and Kumkum on the forehead.
- After this, after meditating on Mother Bhagwati, provide food to these Goddess Swaroop girls as desired.
- Make food for girls by garnishing them with their hands and give Dakshina, gifts according to your ability and blessing by touching the feet again.
Girl should be two to 10 years old
- Girls who are called in their home should be within two to 10 years of age.
- At least 9 girls should be called for worship, out of which it is mandatory to have a boy child. Which has been considered as the form of Hanumanji. Just as worship of the mother is not complete without Bhairava, in the same way girl worship is not considered complete without a boy child. If more than 9 girls are coming to the banquet then no objection, they should be welcomed.
Every age girl has a different form in Kanya Pujan
- A girl is worshiped on all days during Navratri, while nine girls are worshiped on Ashtami and Navami.
- Worshiping a two-year-old girl ends sadness and poverty in the house.
- Three year old girl is considered as Trimurti. With the worship of Trimurti, there is a wealth of wealth in the house, while there is definitely happiness and prosperity in the family.
- A four-year-old girl is considered as Kalyani. Their worship helps the good family health.
- The five-year-old girl is Rohini. By worshiping Rohini, a person remains disease free.
- A six-year-old girl is considered to be a Kalika form. Kalika forms Vijay, Vidya and Rajyoga.
- A 7-year-old girl is a Chandika. Worshiping Chandika Rupa leads to opulence in the house.
- Year old girls are called Shambhavi. Worshiping them wins the entire controversy.
- Year old girls are the form of Durga. Worshiping them destroys enemies and also accomplishes impractical tasks.
- A ten-year-old girl is called Subhadra. Subhadra fulfills all the wishes of her devotees.
Respect for a girl, not just 9 days of her life, It should be long life
During Navratri, girls are worshiped in India as goddesses. But, some people forget all this after Navratri. In many places girls are victims of exploitation and they are being insulted. In such a situation, people become unhappy over the birth of a girl child in many villages in India.
Are you not insulting these forms of the Mother Goddess by doing this? We have to change our thinking about girls and women. Honor these women and women like Goddess. By honoring them, you get equal merit in worshiping God. It is also mentioned in the scriptures that God himself resides in the house in which the woman is respected.
This is the ancient tradition of worshiping the girl
It is believed that once Goddess Vaishno Devi was pleased with the devotion of her supreme devotee Pandit Sridhar, she not only saved her shame and also gave proof of her existence to the entire creation. Today, Sridhar, a devotee of the mother, lived in Hansali village, 2 km from the town of Katra in Jammu and Kashmir. He was childless and was unhappy.
One day he invited virgin girls to his house for Navratri worship. Mother Vaishno sat among them as a girl. After the worship, all the girls returned, but the mother did not go. Goddess came in Childhood said to Pandit Sridhar- invite everyone to Bhandare. Sridhar agreed to the divine girl and sent a message of Bhandare to the surrounding villages. Many people came to Bhandare. Many girls also came. After this, children were born in Sridhar's house. Since then, people ask for blessings from the mother by worshiping the girl and feeding the girl.