21 March 2091
Day 1 of 9- Tithi
- Shukla Pratipada · until 11:52 AM
- Nakshatra
- Uttara Bhadrapada
- Sunrise – Sunset
- 6:38 AM – 6:46 PM
- Abhijit Muhurta
- 12:17 PM – 1:06 PM
Festival · 2091
Chaitra Navaratri 2091
Falls on 21 March 2091 in Nashik, as computed from the real sky for that city.
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Wishing you a blessed Chaitra Navaratri
May the Mother's strength rise in you over these nine days, as it rose before the gods who thought the strength was theirs.
स तस्मिन्नेवाकाशे स्त्रियमाजगाम बहु शोभमानामुमां हैमवतीं तां होवाच किमेतद्यक्षमिति ॥
sa tasminnevākāśe striyamājagāma bahu śobhamānāmumāṁ haimavatīṁ tāṁ hovāca kimetadyakṣamiti
Its meaning
In that very space he came upon a woman of great radiance, Umā, daughter of Himavat. He said to her: What is this wondrous being?
Kena Upaniṣad 3.12
When, for Nashik
21 March 2091
Shukla Pratipada · until 11:52 AM
Do
Choose one small discipline for all nine days, such as sitting quietly at dawn for ten minutes, and keep it.
Leave aside
Fasting as a bargain. What the nine days ask is attention, not hunger.
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The sky that day
- The Moon
- Shukla Pratipada
- The Sun is in
- Meena
- The Moon is in
- Meena, in Uttara Bhadrapada
The Moon waxes from its first sliver to its ninth day in the month that opens the year, as the spring grows warm; nine nights of Devi are kept while the light increases.
What the day is
Nine nights of Devi at the year's opening — the spring counterpart to Sharada Navaratri, quieter and more interior. Rebuilding the personality before the year loads it.
The story
3 stories the day keeps. Turn each card.
1 / 3A king and a merchantTurn ↻
Suratha, a king who has lost his kingdom, and Samadhi, a merchant cast out by his own family, meet in the forest hermitage of the rishi Medhas. Both still grieve for what rejected them. The rishi's answer to their question is the whole of the Devi Mahatmya: the power that binds us to sorrow is the same power that, worshipped, sets us free.
Markandeya Purana, Devi Mahatmya, the first chapter.
2 / 3The light of all the godsTurn ↻
When Mahishasura could not be met by any one god, the radiance of all of them came together and took form as the Devi. Each gave her a weapon, the mountain gave her the lion, and she went out alone to face what none of them could face alone.
Markandeya Purana, Devi Mahatmya, the second chapter.
3 / 3She who dwells in all beingsTurn ↻
The gods praise her as the one who dwells in every being as consciousness, as intelligence, as sleep and hunger, as patience, modesty, faith, compassion and contentment, as power and as mother. The hymn does not place the goddess far away. It finds her in the ordinary faculties of every person.
Markandeya Purana, Devi Mahatmya, the fifth chapter.
The days around it
4 days kept as one season. Each has its own page.
- Gudi Padwa · Ugadi
The year begins: the gudi raised, bitter and sweet together.
21 March 2091 - Chaitra Navaratri
Nine spring nights of the Devi, one discipline kept.
You are here - Rama Navami
Rama born at noon; the promise kept at its cost.
29 March 2091 - Hanuman Jayanti
The first full Moon; strength remembered and given away.
4 April 2091
What is said, and what is so
Often said
If the nine days are broken, the goddess is angered.
The root
The Devi of the Mahatmya is the Mother who protects those who call on her. A discipline missed is simply begun again the next morning. Devotion is measured by return, not by an unbroken record.
Often said
Navaratri is kept only by fasting.
The root
Many keep a fast, and it is a real practice. But the core of the nine days in the texts is the worship itself: the kalash, the lamp, the recitation, the honouring of girls and women. Each keeps the nine days in the form their body and life allow.
How to keep Chaitra Navaratri
Free acts, done by you. Kept so far this year: 0 of 3.
Choose one small discipline for all nine days, such as sitting quietly at dawn for ten minutes, and keep it.
Learn by heart one verse of the hymn Ya Devi Sarvabhuteshu, and say it each morning of the nine days.
On one of the nine days, prepare a meal and serve it with respect to someone who cooks for others all year.
Each act is free and done by you. Keeping one writes it to your karma ledger with the day's panchang. Nothing here is ever bought, and no act is a remedy.
The family's part
The youngest
Waters the barley sown in the earthen pot each morning and watches the green rise through the nine days.
The eldest
Leads the recitation, or tells one story of the Devi in their own words each evening.
Everyone
On the eighth or ninth day, the girls of the house are honoured, fed first and given a gift, as the Devi herself.
How India keeps it
North India
A kalash is set up on the first morning and barley is sown beside it; on the eighth or ninth day young girls are worshipped and fed as the Devi.
Jammu and the hills
The nine days are a time of pilgrimage to the Devi's shrines, Vaishno Devi among them.
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
The nine days are kept as Vasanta Navaratri and lead to Sri Rama Navami, with the wedding of Sita and Rama celebrated at Bhadrachalam.
Many homes across India
The Durga Saptashati is recited over the nine days, often in portions, by a family together.
The day, for Nashik
22 March 2091
Day 2 of 9- Tithi
- Shukla Dwitiya · until 2:29 PM
- Nakshatra
- Revati
- Sunrise – Sunset
- 6:37 AM – 6:46 PM
- Abhijit Muhurta
- 12:17 PM – 1:06 PM
23 March 2091
Day 3 of 9- Tithi
- Shukla Tritiya · until 5:02 PM
- Nakshatra
- Ashwini
- Sunrise – Sunset
- 6:36 AM – 6:46 PM
- Abhijit Muhurta
- 12:17 PM – 1:05 PM
24 March 2091
Day 4 of 9- Tithi
- Shukla Chaturthi · until 7:22 PM
- Nakshatra
- Bharani
- Sunrise – Sunset
- 6:35 AM – 6:46 PM
- Abhijit Muhurta
- 12:16 PM – 1:05 PM
25 March 2091
Day 5 of 9- Tithi
- Shukla Panchami · until 9:22 PM
- Nakshatra
- Krittika
- Sunrise – Sunset
- 6:34 AM – 6:47 PM
- Abhijit Muhurta
- 12:16 PM – 1:05 PM
26 March 2091
Day 6 of 9- Tithi
- Shukla Shashthi · until 10:54 PM
- Nakshatra
- Rohini
- Sunrise – Sunset
- 6:33 AM – 6:47 PM
- Abhijit Muhurta
- 12:16 PM – 1:05 PM
27 March 2091
Day 7 of 9- Tithi
- Shukla Saptami · until 11:49 PM
- Nakshatra
- Mrigashira
- Sunrise – Sunset
- 6:32 AM – 6:47 PM
- Abhijit Muhurta
- 12:15 PM – 1:04 PM
28 March 2091
Day 8 of 9- Tithi
- Shukla Ashtami · until 12:04 AM, 29 March 2091
- Nakshatra
- Ardra
- Sunrise – Sunset
- 6:32 AM – 6:48 PM
- Abhijit Muhurta
- 12:15 PM – 1:04 PM
29 March 2091
Day 9 of 9- Tithi
- Shukla Navami · until 11:32 PM
- Nakshatra
- Punarvasu
- Sunrise – Sunset
- 6:31 AM – 6:48 PM
- Abhijit Muhurta
- 12:15 PM – 1:04 PM
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