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by Swami Vidyadhishananda
New Moon
9 days (or nights)
10th day
mouni-mvasy
mgha-gupta-navartri
dashami
19th March
20th 28th Mar
29th March
New Moon
9 days (or nights)
10th day
chaitra-mvasy
vasanta-navartri
dashami
20th March
15th July
16th 25th July
26th July
New Moon
9 lunar nights over 10 solar days
10th lunar day
shra-mvasy
shra-gupta-navartri
dashami
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12th October
13th 21st Oct
22nd October
New Moon
9 soli-lunar day/night
10th lunar day
shwin-mvasy
shradiy-navartri
vijay-dashami
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guide our service or sev. It is not enough to seek benevolence for oneself by breaking
coconuts and offering valuables to the altars, but better still to undertake genuine spiritual
practices of honouring and serving that elevate our minds and fulfill our hearts without
wanting anything in return. After all, a mother wants hardly anything from the child! A
genuine seeker of truth will contemplate on the greater realms and reach out to the core of
motherhood and Mother Earth, and mindfully recognize the grace of this life and plenitude.
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