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The importance of the color white and yellow are very significant and auspicious. On the holiday of Vasant Panchami students and teachers wear either white or yellow and also prepare sweets using Kesar (saffron) in Halwa and other sweet dishes. Saraswati Puja is a very important event in schools, colleges, universities and also homes. In Bengal, Jaipur, and Rajasthan this festival is celebrated in a larger scale.
The spiritual significance of "Puja" is to remove difficulties and obstacles in one's path with the divine directions of God called "Shrimat". Puja can be in the form of thoughts, words and actions. Mantras help to free the mind. Gurus lead us from darkness to light. Selfless motivation and action in puja is called sattwic and they are truly charitable deeds.
Puja helps to remove the negative energy or vices like anger, greed, ego, lust and worldly and materialistic attachments. We all need to remove the impurities and immorality: the dehumanization of mankind. We all need to walk in the path of truth, righteousness and selfless services to mankind. We all need to know the sense and essence of all the kathas and pujas. We all need wealth but that wealth needs to be used to conquer the vices and not to get trapped in it. We should purify ourselves in this process of Saraswati puja and celebration of the festival. Prayers and rituals help to some extent because learned pandits will help in spiritual enlightment and will also help in the process of learning, wisdom and the Fine Arts.
In Punjab the festival is called Basant and not vasant and they do kite flying on this day. Saraswati vandana, mustard flowers, marigold flowers, yellow costumes are very popular.
She has been worshipped by the Jains since ancient times as Srutadevataa, the deity who presides over the sacred teachings.
Hradt is Devanagari script, Sarasvati is a sanskrit tranliteration and her consort is Brahma and her mount is the swan and she is purely known as the goddess of knowledge. She is the first of the three great goddesses worshipped in the Vedic religion.
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| SR No. | 003213 |
| Book Title | Shardanjali |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Purnima A Desai |
| Publisher | Shikshayatan Cultural Center, Newyork USA |
| Publication Year | 2007 |
| Total Pages | 130 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 6 MB |