‘Navaraatri’ and Dasara festival days are meant for making our life useful, fruitful, purposeful and meaningful. It is celebrated throughout India and also world over where Indian reside. This has become one of the great festivals due to the fact that it connects our day to day life of acquiring knowledge and doing work for livelihood.
Thus we worship Vidya devatha Saraswati, Sakti Devatha Parvati and Devatha of prosperity Mahalakshmi. All the three factors; books, tools and money are respected as divine in India through the three feminine devatha concepts.
In India and in sanaathana dharma divinity is attributed to males and females with equal status. Thrimoorthies are directly connected with thrisakthies as inseparable parts like wife and husbands. Mahavishnu + Mahalakshmi; Brahma + Saraswathi; Siva + Sakti. (Prapancha pursha + Prakruthi devi; Parabrahma + Mahaamaaya) Thrimoorthies and thrisakthies are sankalpaas which are logically, rationally and scientifically explainable divine concepts unlike merely explaining something based on faith or beliefs. (remember concept of god and concept of divinity are slightly different.)
The Navaratri / dasara festivals play crucial role in our social, spiritual, psychological, economical, industrial, commercial, and anthropological life. We could use spirituality as applied spirituality for achieving the above goals through bringing people from all walks of life together for economic prosperity, social bondage, development of arts, culture, music, dance, literary works and rituals like vidyaarambha, commencement of new industrial ventures, investment, developments, and so on.
Thus in India the spirituality is used as applied spirituality for making the life in this world heavenly instead of thinking and praying for going to an imaginary heaven outside this world after death in the name of god, god fearing activities and god pleasing activities.
SUGGESTION: I would like you to perform pooja of your books, tools, computers, instruments, equipments, vehicles and work-tools. This is for demonstrating our respect to knowledge, profession, work, and tools which give us happiness through fetching livelihood.
