The much-awaited spring festival of Chaitra Navratri 2018 comes to an end with Ram Navami marking the ninth day, which will be celebrated on 25th Sunday.
Ram Navami 2018: Significance
The much awaited spring festival of Chaitra Navratri 2018 comes to an end with Ram Navami marking the ninth day, which will be celebrated on 25th Sunday. Ram Navami is celebrated to commemorate Lord Ram's birthday, who is also known to be the seventh avatar of Lord Vishnu. People celebrate this day by observing a fast.
No festival in India can be complete without food and Ram Navami is no different. Indians celebrate this day by preparing certain foods that are offered to the deity as bhog, or prasadam. These traditional offerings are made with devotion as a part of the celebrations.
Some of the traditional foods prepared during Ram Navami as bhog and prasad include Coconut ladoos, Makhana kheer, Dates halwa. Not only sweets, grand feasts are prepared in order to seek blessings from Lord Ram.
Ram Navami 2018: Puja Muhurat
Ram Navami Puja Muhurat - 11:14am to 13:39pm
Ram Navami Madhyahna Moment - 12:26pm
Navami tithi begins at 8:02am on 25th March, 2018
Navami tithi ends at 05:54am on 26th March, 2018.
Ram Navami Puja Vidhi
Puja Vidhi or Puja Prayer, iis performed as per the scriptures during Ram Navami (Rama Navami), is considered very auspicious.
The Ram Navami Puja (Rama Navami Puja) includes the sthapana or installation of the Kalash (Kalash Sthapana) as well as the Panchang (Panchang Sthapana).
These pujas include the Gauri Ganesh, Punyavachan, Shodash Matrika, Navgraha, and Sarvotabhadra. The recitals also include the Yogini Pujan (64 times), Shetrapal Pujan, Swasti Vachan, and Sankalpa.
The puja also includes 108 chants of each planetary mantra, 108 paaths of the Ram Raksha Strota, the Ram-Sita Pujan and recitation of the Sunderkand paath. The puja ends with a yagna, aarti and pushpaanjali.
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