Kanya Pujan: During Navratri, the fast is completed only after Kanya Puja, know the method along with its importance...

The nine-day festival of Shardiya Navratri started on October 15 this year and is ending on October 24. Kanya Puja has special significance in this 9-day festival. Various puja rituals and aarti are performed on these days to please the goddess. Most of the communities, especially in North India, invite girls to their homes and temples by organizing Kanya Puja or Kanya Bhoj during Navratri. During this time, they are offered a feast of puri, kheer, gram, coconut, and halwa and are given gifts and Dakshina.

Pandit Vidyanand Pandey said that little girls are considered the incarnation of Goddess Durga on earth. Children are considered the purest form of human beings in the entire universe, hence people worship Mother Goddess in the form of girls. According to Devi Bhagwat Purana, it is believed that by worshiping girls, devotees get the real results of their worship, especially those who fast for 9 days must worship girls at the end of Navratri.

How to do Kanya Puja
Kanya Puja is traditionally performed by devotees on the day of Ashtami or Navami. Little girls, who are specially invited, are then worshiped in the form of Maa Durga. Little girls invited to the house are made to sit on mats after having their feet washed and their feet painted. Kheer, Puri, Halwa, Chana, etc. are served to the 9 girls sitting on the seat and after taking the food, they are sent off with Dakshina.
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