Dasahara is one of the greatest festivals observed in India. Students value it more as it they get an entire fortnight of holiday during this time. And same for the people working in different corporate offices as they get leave to visit their home. Happy time for all :)
Dasahara is a very imporatant day for Hindus; on this day Maa Durga killed Mahishashura as well as Sri Ram killed the demon Ravana. Mahishashura (Buffalo demon) had got boon from Brahma, the Creator and had become unconquerable. No power in this world was any match for him. It was impossible for any individual or group of devas to defeat him. To fight with the demon, all the gods put their powers together. Thus Maa Durga was born and she fought with Mahishashura for nine days and nine nights. On the tenth day, she finally killed the demon.
On Vijaya Dashami, after worshipping goddess Durga, Sri Ram fought with Ravana and killed him. It was a victory of the virtue over devil, a victory of truth over treachery. Sri Ram took the help of the vanaras, who as individuals were no match for the mighty demon kingdom, but when got together destroyed them from the root.
Both of these incidents have certain aspects in common.
- Every individual can contribute towards the fight against evil, no matter how weak he is as an individual and how powerful the evil is.
- When individuals pledge all their power for a single cause, they can do wonders. The power can be physical (tana), intellectual (mana) and financial (dhana) in nature.
- When the cause backed by virtue and truthfulness and is against the evils, there is no way they can fail.
These are all fine. But what do they convey under current situation? We don't have any demons with big horns on head or with ten heads. When we talk about demons, we generally conceive a picture of an ugly looking beast with couple of horns (or may be many more) and so on. Just that in the present day world, we don't come across such creatures doesn't mean that the world has gotten rid of them. It is not the looks that make a demon, it is the character, behaviour that distinguishes a demon from others. In the present day context, the demon has a lot many manifestations. It exists in the society in the form of corruption, dishonesty, separatism, terrorism, greed, lust and many more. It is this demon that can destroy all the value system in our society.
To fight against these demons, we as individuals have to be alert and pledge all our power in defeating them. It is high time that we all Indians pledge our tana-mana-dhana to make Bharat Mata strong to fight against those devils.
Bharat Mata ki Jay.
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