Navratri is over

Thanks Ma Durga. Finally it’s over. The nine days of Navratri is now over. No, I am not happy that you are going. I am happy because those hypocrite, half cooked people will now stop staring at my dish full of meat, egg and fish. These nine days I was cursed by lot of this kind of people, and cornered by too many of them in lunch table. Not only this year, every freaking year, while I stay outside of Bengal.

          

 Few years back over lunch table a guy was staring at my dish like his kidney and liver is on my plate. I asked about the typical behavior. Though he questioned me first, “You Bengali people are really not following the Hindu religion right?” I didn’t answer the ambiguous question. But I returned a question to him, “Do you know which Navratri are you celebrating , BY NOT EATING NON VEG.” with a pure confidence he lifted his eyebrow and answered, “Don’t you really know there are only one Navratri which is celebrated this time of the year.” The Wikipedia page was not created then. So I stopped.  This people have no idea that  they are celebrating one of the 4 Navaratri and this one is enforced by Rama only without following the actual rule.  

            Sharadiya Navratri is celebrated across India except Bengali people.  Everyone celebrate by fasting without knowing why they are doing that. Even they do not know that this is not an one Idol festival. This is actually 9 forms of Shakti (Not Durga). Some of the modern ENGLISH spitter answered me, “A festival to celebrate destruction of evil by good.” I am tired of listening the same cheap description over and over and over again.

            All right, I am really not defending my NON-VEG psychology. I even think vegetarian diet always give extra mileage to your lifespan. But at list for these 9 days I want to act like male Durga and kill these temporary hypocrite vegetarians pinching mindset criticizing simple people who are not becoming same asshole as them for these 9 days. You follow in your way, I follow in my way. Who the hell you are to say that I am not doing the right things (though technically I am not following at all). That’s the best part of Hinduism. This is the only reason I don’t want to drop my religion (Not changing mine. All god connectors are talking the same bullshit as other).

            Being a Bengali, Durga Puja (same time Shakti Aradhana of Navratri) is our biggest festival. Our Devi or Shakti kill the Mahisasur around the same time (though it’s Shree Rama’s technical celebration, not the actual killing time of Mahisasur) when Ravana was killed by Him. But here in Bengal she comes with her sons and daughters. Our fore fathers did package the religious festival in a sophisticated manner that we get all type of festival altogether and can do worship for anything at the same time with the same set of idols. Durga for power, Lakshmi for wealth, Saraswati for education, Kartika for skill, Ganesh for wisdom, and Shiva for whatever you want. The biggest benefit of this packaging is reducing the religious SERIOUSNESS of this festival.

            Durga puja is a fun filled social gathering of everyone in the community. If you want to do puja -- she is standing right there in beautiful PANDAL, if you want to dance --  DHAK is there to beat, if you want to fill your stomach --  all VEG – NON-VEG stalls are there, if you hate non veg - ASHTAMI LUCHI is there, if you like to fast  -- you have few hours before every day PUSHPANJALI, if you want to use the vacation to see the country --  PUJA SPECIALS are there, if you are hard core non-veg and alcoholic -- then NAVAMI is there for you….. In short it’s the total entertainment package. Just what the Dharma means, it's, “Bind Together.”

            But the same Durga divided the whole India between Bengali and Non-Bengali people. There is no Gujrathi, Marathi, Sindhi, or Tamil Navaratri. But there are Bengali Durga Puja. That is shameful,  but we cannot change the age long culture. Our Durga puja is always wrongly classified by some bunch of religious assholes who even do not know why they are celebrating the 9 form of Shakti.

            Anyway that’s enough. I don’t want to make it lengthier. Just wanted to pass a message that it’s not at all a matter that what you are eating or wearing in front-of-God. It’s what you are doing is only matter to HIM/HER… Which alphabetized as KARMA. So don’t look at my dish or stop me to eat anything I like. It’s simply a bad KARMA which influence your next life as a pure non veg DOG.

Shubha Vijaya & happy Dussera.