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good morning, durga
actually you don't have just two arms, you might have noticed ami's little depiction of you... 😉
okay, me not very observant of rituals and all that, but the durga thing for bongs i think goes a little beyond and outside the rituals of worship and stuff and becomes part of your life in all sorts of ways. for example, new clothes... that is when you got them every year... and when you visted nani nana in dlehi. otherwise you didn't rush around buying clothes really, not like now, kabhi bhi kahin bhi. 😳
aah as kids you knew this was when loads of notun jama will appear and you counted to see if you had at least eight sets for the eight belas... morning and evening through starting shashti evening and ending dashami morning... new clothes would pour in from everywhere, especially my nani ji. she was something else... asr's nani sometimes reminds me of her... in that generous lovingness of hers. one pujo i remember counting 23 sarees, i must have been 21 or something... such a good feeling, how i showed, hai re nand kissore. then there was the eating at the pandals, the late night movies and jatras there too... and the dhak playing, the smoke and scent of worship everywhere. my mother always said "dugga dugga" if you were leaving for some place, possibly a habit, somehow the ten armed one was always thought of as a positive utter force, one you practically owned, just because.
how come i am thinking of you as i write positive utter force, hello hi bye bye whats happenings!!
i have said this before, i rarely go to the pandal any more, but you are there, always a reminder of a beautiful power... she came down because a human called her, out of season... that gets me too... so much in that idea of a murti that you create every year and after just four odd days immerse in water and let go with much pomp and splendour...
why am i rambling when i am late for work... why am i rambling at all.
okay, another thing was mahalaya, seven days before it all took off. early morning 4 am we'd get up to hear the first invocations to chandi in the voice of birendra krishna bhadra on the radio... couldn't understand a word of it but the goosebumps knew when to come. and this lovely song from there...chhap gaya hai... hemanta asking durga to awaken. i think it used to be part of that mahalaya prerecorded thingie... just lub it... hope you enjoy too.
actually you don't have just two arms, you might have noticed ami's little depiction of you... 😉
okay, me not very observant of rituals and all that, but the durga thing for bongs i think goes a little beyond and outside the rituals of worship and stuff and becomes part of your life in all sorts of ways. for example, new clothes... that is when you got them every year... and when you visted nani nana in dlehi. otherwise you didn't rush around buying clothes really, not like now, kabhi bhi kahin bhi. 😳
aah as kids you knew this was when loads of notun jama will appear and you counted to see if you had at least eight sets for the eight belas... morning and evening through starting shashti evening and ending dashami morning... new clothes would pour in from everywhere, especially my nani ji. she was something else... asr's nani sometimes reminds me of her... in that generous lovingness of hers. one pujo i remember counting 23 sarees, i must have been 21 or something... such a good feeling, how i showed, hai re nand kissore. then there was the eating at the pandals, the late night movies and jatras there too... and the dhak playing, the smoke and scent of worship everywhere. my mother always said "dugga dugga" if you were leaving for some place, possibly a habit, somehow the ten armed one was always thought of as a positive utter force, one you practically owned, just because.
how come i am thinking of you as i write positive utter force, hello hi bye bye whats happenings!!
i have said this before, i rarely go to the pandal any more, but you are there, always a reminder of a beautiful power... she came down because a human called her, out of season... that gets me too... so much in that idea of a murti that you create every year and after just four odd days immerse in water and let go with much pomp and splendour...
why am i rambling when i am late for work... why am i rambling at all.
okay, another thing was mahalaya, seven days before it all took off. early morning 4 am we'd get up to hear the first invocations to chandi in the voice of birendra krishna bhadra on the radio... couldn't understand a word of it but the goosebumps knew when to come. and this lovely song from there...chhap gaya hai... hemanta asking durga to awaken. i think it used to be part of that mahalaya prerecorded thingie... just lub it... hope you enjoy too.
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=SG&v=G3LmeGF6R7w&hl=en-GB[/YOUTUBE]
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