The Spiritual Significance of Navratri 2025
Sep 15, 2025
The majestic festival of Navratri falls in September this year. The Shardhiya Navratri starts from 22 September 2025 and continues till 2 October 2025. Navratri is a very special occasion for everyone. An auspicious time filled with the aura of Goddess Durga who is believed to remove all troubles and sorrows from the lives of the devotees.
Astrologers predict the vehicle (vahana) of Ma'am Durga based on Thithis on the beginning and the end days of Navratri. Accordingly, this year Amman comes in Elephant and departs riding a human. This is an auspicious symbol and the astrologers predict good rain, good harvest, good agricultural growth, happiness, increased milk production, and increase in wealth and grains.
Celebrate these nine nights with sacred pujas, lights, rangolis and flowers. One more way to add spiritual presence of Maa Durga in your home is by placing Tanjore paintings of Durga in your home. It elevates your decoration and invites the positive energies and blessings of the divine Goddess. At Ethnic Tanjore Arts, we believe that each painting is a devotional piece of art and let us know more about Navratri and the rituals and the significance of Durga Tanjore painting.
Why do we celebrate Navratri ?
Navratri, also called the divine nine nights, is the time when we give rest to our inner soul. Each day is dedicated to Maa Durga in her nine forms. Each firm represents her powerful forms she undertook to defeat Mahishasura. Her triumph over the demon is remembered every year and celebrated for her blessings and guidance for all her devotees. You can make this Navratri even more auspicious by placing Tanjore paintings of Maa Durga. At Ethnic Tanjore Arts you can get your desired paintings and make this Navratri a special occasion.
9 days of Navratri Devi names and colours
First day - Pratipada - yellow
Second day - Dwitiya - green
Third day - Tritiya - grey
Fourth day - Chaturthi - orange
Fifth day - panchami - white
Sixth day - Shasthi - red
Seventh day - saptami - blue
Eighth day - Ashtami - pink
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Do’s and Don'ts during Navratri
Do's
Stay clean
Eat only Saatvik foods
Keep your mind at peace
Drink plenty of water
Dress appropriately
Pray daily and perform aartis
Don'ts
Black clothes during Navratri Pooja
Arguing with others
Insulting elders and women
Wearing leather clothes or other ornaments
Consuming non-vegetarian food
Shaving, cutting hair and nails
Fasting Rituals
Fasting during Navratri is a vital devotional practice that leads to spiritual cleansing of the devotees. Let's look into a few ways of fasting and what food can be taken.
Devotees can fast for all the 9 days or they can fast only on the first and the last day.
Acceptable foods are: dairy products, use of rock salt instead of ordinary salt, dry fruits and vegetables like pumpkin and potato.
Food to avoid: garlic, onion, grains, and processed foods.
How to perform Navratri Puja at home?
Devotees can perform the following puja after physically taking bath and wearing the appropriate attire. Daily Puja and aarti are the essential practices during the puja.
A clay pot with soil to sow barley seeds
Fill Kalash - a brass or clay pitcher filled with holy water
5 mango leaves and a coconut wrapped in red cloth
Place an Akhand Jyoti - an uninterrupted lamp or dhiya.
Devotees can perform Kanya Pujan on the 8th and the 9th day. This puja is performed by worshipping young girls who are believed to be the embodiment of Maa Durga. Through this Devotees can perform Kanya Pujan on the 8th and the 9th day. This puja is performed by worshipping young girls who are believed to be the embodiment of Maa Durga. Through this puja the devotees believe that they get the full benefit of the worship and it brings happiness into their lives.
How These Nine Days are Celebrated?
Shailaputri Puja
Offerings: flowers, fruits, and prasad
Attire : Wear red or yellow attire
About this day:
Shailaputra is born from Shaila which means extraordinary. She is born at the peak of an experience. During the first day, Garba and Dandiya Raas are performed.
Brahmacharini Puja
Offerings : sugar, honey, and prasad
Attire : Wear blue or white attire
About this day:
Worship Brahmacharini, the second form of Durga on this day. Brahma means infinity, and Brahmacharini is the one who moves in infinity. Devotees recite Devi Mahatmyam on this day.
Chandraganta Puja
Offerings: milk, ghee, and prasad
Attire : Wear pink or orange attire
About this day:
Worship Chandraghanta, the third form of Durga. Chandraghanta means Chandra, the moon, which charms the mind and is an embodiment of beauty. On this day devotees perform Kanya Puja (worship of young girls).
Kushmanda Puja
Offerings: malpua (sweet dish) and prasad
Attire: Wear yellow or green attire
About this day:
Worship Kushmanda, the fourth form of Durga by reciting Durga Saptashati. Kushmanda means a ball of energy. Whenever you experience immense energy, then it's the divine presence of the Goddess.
Skandamata Puja
Offerings: bananas and prasad
Attire: Wear blue or purple attire
About this day:
Worship Skandamata, the fifth form of Durga by performing Garba and Dandiya Raas
Skandamata is the motherly energy, like our own mother.
Katyayani Puja
Offerings: honey and prasad
Attire: Wear red or pink attire
About this day:
Worship Katyayani, the sixth form of Durga by reciting Devi Mahatmyam. Katyayani means consciousness and the intuitive ability through sheer witness of consciousness.
Kalaratri Puja
Offerings: jaggery and prasad
Attire: Wear dark blue attire
About this day:
Worship Kalaratri, the seventh form of Durga on this day by performing Kanya Puja. Kaalratri is the Divine Mother who is beyond the universe, yet brings solace to every heart and soul.
Mahagauri Puja
Offerings: coconut and prasad
Attire: Wear red or white attire
About this day:
Worship Mahagauri, the eighth form of Durga on this day by reciting Durga Saptashati. MahaGauri gives momentum and ultimate freedom in life and brings you ultimate liberation.
Siddhidhdatri Puja
Offerings: sesame seeds and prasad
Attire: Wear purple or blue attire
About this day:
Worship Siddhidatri, the ninth form of Durga by performing Garba and Dandiya Raas. Siddhidhaatri brings perfection in life. Her blessings bring miracles in life. What we think is impossible, she makes it possible.
Celebrate Navratri with Ethnic Tanjore Arts
Celebrating the supreme feminine energies on these nine nights, let the divine presence and blessings of Maa Durga engulf all your homes and family. At Ethnic Tanjore Arts, you can find a varied collection of Maa Durga Tanjore paintings, representing her ferociousness, compassion and spiritual energy. By visiting our store and getting the sacred Tanjore painting of Maa Durga, you are not only inviting her blessings but also preserving India’s greatest aesthetic heritage. You can place these divine paintings of Maa Durga in your
Living room
Puja room
At the mandap during Navratri
Final Thoughts
In this Navaratri, let your house be filled with the aura of chants, shine of the lights and the divine blessings of Durga. The tanjore painting of Maa Durga will not be just a frame in your wall but a reminder to everyone one of us that we are under the guidance of her blessings and the victory over the negative.
This Navratri, let devotion and art unite and welcome the blessings of the Goddess through Tanjore paintings of Maa Durga.
