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Vijaya Dashami

 

Vijaya Dashami

Vijaya Dashami or Dussehra or is an essential Hindu celebration. It is praised by Indians consistently in the Hindu Vikrami Calender month of Ashwin (September/ October).
 
This is additionally the celebration checking end of Navratri and the submersion of Durga icons which are adored for nine days preceding Dussehra. Vijaya Dashami is likewise the day when numerous families begin formal instruction of their children. The practice has been old to the point, that in a few parts of Kerala, much after transformations to Christianity, a few parts of the group proceeded this custom.
 
Legendary Significance:
 
This day denote the triumph of Lord Rama over Demon ruler Ravana. On this day, Rama killed Ravana and liberated his wife Sita in the wake of heading a multitude of monkeys. Sita was taken by Ravana from Ramas Ashram to vindicate the affront of his sister Shoorpanakha who had proposed to wed Ram (or Lakshman) however got her nose cut off by Lakshman when she attempted to damage Sita.

According to Ramayan, Ram did Chandi-Puja and conjured the endowments of Durga to execute Ravana. The war against Ravan kept ticking for ten days and Sita had been come back to her spouse Ram and they now go to Ayodhya in triumph and grandness. Hence, it is on the Diwali day that Lord Ram, the incarnation of Lord Vishnu in the Treta Yug, came back to his capital Ayodhya after the outcast of fourteen years.

Vijaya Dashami is also known as Dussehra, because of the victory of Ram over Ravana. On this day in Satya Yug, Ram (the eighth incarnation of Lord Vishnu), killed the great demon and king of Lanka, Ravana.
 
Puranas also opined that in this day warrior Goddess Durga defeated and killed the buffalo demon Mahishasura

In the months of Ashwin and kartik, Hindus observe a 10 day ceremony of fast, rituals, celebrations, fiests to honor the mother Goddess and triumph of Lord Rama over Demon Ravana. Dussehra also symbolizes the triumph of warrior Goddess Durga over the buffalo demon, Mahishasura. Thus, it is a celebration of victory of good over evil.
 
The 'Ramlila' - an enactment of the life of Lord Rama, is held during the nine days preceding Dussehra. On the tenth day (Dussehra or Vijay Dashami), larger than life effigies of Ravana, his son and brother - Meghnadh and Kumbhakarna are set to fire.
 
The theatrical enactment of this dramatic encounter is held throughout the country in which every section of people participates enthusiastically.
 
In burning the effigies the people are asked to burn the evil within them, and thus follow the path of truth and goodness, bearing in mind the instance of Ravana, who despite all his might and majesty was destroyed for his evil ways.