Day Five of Navratri - Skanda Mata

Lord Kartik/Kartikeyan/Karthikeyan is also called as Skanda. As we all know that Goddess Durga is his mother, so she is very well known among every living being as Skanda Mata.

She is a deity of fire with four arms. She holds her son Skanda with the top right hand and lotus in her lower hand. The top left hand is placed in a consent sign or Abhaya Mudra. She is fair complexioned, seated on a lotus and so also referred to as Padmasana.

Day two of Navratri – Brahmacharini

We are here in the second day where we will be worshiping Durga mata in form of Brahmacharini or Tapasyacharini, which is Goddess’s second form. The name does seize the significance of proper and exact atonement and meditation. Her form portrays her as holding a rosary beads in her right hand and a Kamandalu, a pot containing holy water in her left hand. As by now we all know that in her previous life, when she was reborn as the daughter of Himalaya, she performed strict atonement to have Lord Shiva as her husband.

Narad Muni, the divine sage of heaven and son of Lord Brahma advised her to take up meditation to win over Lord of Lord Shiva. Her powerful and strong devotion, commitment and severe meditation for years under tremendous conditions, gave her the name of Brahmacharini.

As due to hard way of meditation led goddess to get lord of lord Shiva as her husband and this positive day is worshiped on her name – Brahmacharini. Meditation brings peace and also help in destroying negative impact and so Bramacharini is worshiped so that via meditation all can attain positivism.