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Best wishes for Navaratri and Vijaya Dashmi ! 
A brief about Navaratri
Navaratri is celebrated to mark victory of the good over the evil.
This is a festival that places emphasis on worship of Shakti (energy). Seeing divine in women form is very uncommon outside India.
Navaratri are the nine days from pratipada to navami in the Ashwin sukla paksha. This is the popular autumnal festival when Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati are worshiped.
Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati signify valour, wealth and learning, respectively, just as Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva stand for creation, preservation and annihilation. Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati are not different entities, but different facets of the singular Divinity. We invoke Durga's help to surmount obstacles, pray to Lakshmi to bestow peace and prosperity, and contemplate upon Saraswati in order to gain knowledge. These three ingredients are just as necessary for a full and complete worldly life.
In reality, when we pray like this, we are but invoking the Shakti that is within ourselves.
A special feature of Navaratri is doing puja to Kumarikas (virgins) offering them food, clothes and jewelry.
The ninth day is also the day of the Ayudha Puja. The Ayudha Puja is a worship of whatever implements one may use in one's livelihood. This is an expression of gratitude for helping one to fulfil one's duties. If one can make a conscious effort to see the divine in the tools and objects one uses each day, it helps one to see meaning in one's work.
The tenth day, Vijaya Dashami; marks victory of good over the evil. Every endeavor started on this day is guaranteed success, according to elders. It is auspicious day for starting education and new projects.
Ramayana and Mahabharata, has stories showing historical relevance of Navaratri.
Indians celebrate Navaratri at the same time in different ways in different parts of India as well as around the world.
In the North Navaratri, is commonly observed as a time for rigorous fast, followed by celebrations on the tenth day. In western India, throughout the nine days, both men and women participate in a special kind of dance around an object of worship. In the south, Dusshera or the tenth day is celebrated with a lot of fanfare. In the east, people go crazy over Durga Puja, from the seventh till the tenth day of this annual festival.
Although, the universal nature of the festival is often found to transcend regional influences and local culture, the Garba Dance of Gujarat, Ramlila of Varanasi, Dusshera of Mysore, and Durga Puja of Bengal need special mention.
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