essay on lakshmi puja
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The full moon that appears right after Durga Puja is the day when Bengali mothers celebrate Kojagori (a mother who stays awake at night to worship Goddess Lakshmi) Lokkhi Pujo.
Well, this tradition is perhaps restricted to Kolkata and only Bengali colonies in cities across the country. As the 10-handed super goddess and mother doesn’t mind or curse the devotees for eating non-vegetarian food during the four-day carnival, so does her daughter Lakshmi.
While non-Bengalis worship Ganesh and Lakshmi on the day of Diwali, Bengalis worship Kali on that particular ‘no-moon’ night. Bengalis, especially the Bangals (the refugees from Bangladesh), prefer eating jora Illish (double Hilsa) on this occasion of Lokkhi Pujo.
On the occassion a Bengali mother is expected to eat minimum eight kinds of food, including Hilsa, for dinner after the puja. The dinner comprises three kind of fries, daal, chawal, laabra (sabzi), chutney and fish.
While the traditional approach to this particular puja is that it should be celebrated on the same mondop or pandal and at the same sthaan or thaan (the place where the Goddess was worshipped days ago), places almost everywhere in Kolkata dismantle the pandals only after this puja is over.
A similar scene greets one here in Chittaranjan Park, the hub of the Bengali community. The orange B Block pandal with a green ‘coconut’ atop, was intact evoking childhood memories and familiar lines, “Lokkhi Pujor purnima te, aalpona dae aapon haate” (she designs the thresholds on the full-m
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