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Kumari Puja and Its Place In Hindu Religion

Worship of Divine Mother is the foundation of Hindu religion since prehistoric ages. Greek civilization is filled with Goddess worship. Our Durga puja and Nav Ratra is the living tribute to motherhood and its power. Kumari Puja on the final day of Nav Ratra or Nine days of fastings and  worship of goddess is the most elaborate part of Hindu religion. Kumari Puja is the living tribute to womanhood, to the feminine Divinity.

Modern Hindus need to revive this great tradition despite all the distractions of 21 century.

Kumari Puja is the worship of living goddess, its not folktale, not earthen, marble or granite statue worship but a female child of 9 or 10 years age, before  puberty starts.  This child is the future Mother of Divine order that we celebrate and worship with all the zeal for life and living. She is the future mother, unaware of her Divinity and power over human existence .She live in total innocence unaware of materialistic challenges that wait her in the future to come.

This is the religion not limited to books and philosophers or institutions but spread from poorest to the richest of mankind living a day to day life in a village hut to palaces of our metros. The child is called by elders as “ma” out of affection. Monks worship her in bright red saree, flowers, perfume and coconut.

Eighteenth century Vedic scholar Rama Nanda Parmhans, guru of Swami Vivekanand was known for his devotion to womanhood. His wife was known as Sri Ma, the Divine Mother. “To look upon God as Mother is the purest and the highest form of Sadhana,Ramakrishna said. Ramakrishna Ashram at Belur Math in  Kolkota is famous for Kumari Puja, worship the child as a goddess, on Maha Nav Ratri, the last day of Nav Ratra. Some worship Kumari on Maha Asthami or a day before Nav Ratra along with fastings.

Kumari Puja becomes such a great blessing for many curses of modernity.

Our crime against womanhood starts with female killings in embryonal stage of development, raising a female child as less desirable even in food rationing over a male child, torturing and burning of wives for dowry gains, female molestations thru all stages of a woman’s life, marital discords and divorces.

We need Kumari Puja , its protection, more today from web invasion, than we have ever before during Hun invasion, Muslim invasion, Mughal invasion, or English invasion of yesteryears.

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