My visit to Rupal gandhinagr gujrat on Ashtmi

Small description 

Navratri is a famous festival of India and also celebrated in other parts of the world among Hindus. Navratri  means 9 nights dedicated for 9 divine forms of Maa, Adishakti Maa Durga. And the Second last day is know as Ashtmi. On this day all the devotees on maa durga worships the goddess and adores him with different types. And from those  one I am going to explain in my blog .And the whole blog is just description of the below video.

Visit to Vardiani Maa Temple

The Story begins with a invitation from my friend's uncle to visit his village on Ashtmi. And he promised to show something really shocking . So we were eagerly waiting for Ashtmi. On Asthmi he called us in his village which is 10 Km from our TCS Office so we managed in my friend's car.And reached rupal at 09:00 PM. After Taking 30 Mins of rest I saw a crowd . And curiously asked uncle where they are going then he told us they we have to join them , they are moving to temple. And if we delay any more we cant enter to the temple due to this crowd then we moved with them . And the views i have seen are below

 These are the pics of before palli

(will tell you later what is this)

Starts

While moving back to home i seen some people making some thing from wood and i asked uncle what is it. The name of the thing was Palli . It is made up of wood not any wood  on the same day some villagers goes in jungle to bring the wood from a holy tree. and on the same day they starts making it and has to complete before midnight.

Villagers preparing Palli

And also seen that at ever end street there are huge container or Ghee(Butter). and all people are adding ghee in that . Many are purchasing kgs of ghee to fill the container. At this point i know that the Palli was a kind of huge lamp of ghee but Iam not getting what they will do with all this Ghee(Butter). Its in 1000 Kgs .

Villagers collecting ghee

Ghee collected for palli 

Ghee on other parts of the village

Also i have senn that for some guys these drums are too small so they started collecting in tanks of tractors. It was like see of Ghee ,one can smell this ghee from kilometers away from the village. I have seen people using spoon for ghee but here one can find buckets are used in pouring ghee from one container to other.

And there are many small vendors selling ghee. you can find them at any place in village any they are also sponsored confused . They are sponsored to sell in less price and the cost of ghee was 150 Rs per Kg . And many big merchents are purchasing ghee at high rate and selling at low rate through these vendors.

Boy selling ghee 

venders selling ghee

Now uncle told us that Palli will come to our society after passing from some other societies in village now we just have to wait. We waited whole night at 6 Am we seen palling coming . Uncle told us that it will stop only for 5 mins and we have to pour all the ghee from palli i told this is not possible because its a huge quantity . So he told no problem we will try and if some what is left we will pour down the palli .And started pouring ghee from buckets.

Now after all this was the condition of road you can find in upcoming pics . uncle told us that the people those who belongs from the lower cast has right to collect the ghee from street and they can use for there personal use. but what i can find was a long buddy road . But the single diff is of ghee instead of water.

Workers collecting ghee from road

Workers filling the drums again with the ghee from the street

My Personal View

To get more about this custom I discussed with many other elders in village and found that this was started with a wish and on completion of wish one has to offer a cup of ghee to goddess durga for the joyti i.e lamp. But as time changed people thought that more ghee means more blessing. and slowly slowly custom changes from a cup of ghee to tanks. Believes are very important as one can gain much positive energy from all  these kind of divine traditions . 

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