ISKCON temple in Bengaluru celebrating Dasara festival in grand manner

BENGALURU, India - Sept. 30, 2019 - PRLog -- ISKCON Bangalore, for the first time, celebrates Dasara on Tuesday, Oct 8 2019, in Bengaluru at National College Grounds, Basavanagudi. Please join us for the celebrations.

Dussehra Celebrations at other parts of India:

In the North, Durga Puja and Ram-lila performance are very popular.

Durga puja is celebrated with great pomp and pageantry for five-days culminating on the day of Vijaya Dashami. Exquisitely crafted and decorated life-size sculptures of Goddess Durga slaying Mahishasura are set up in the temples for worship. On the day of Vijaya Dashami, these sculptures are taken in a procession and then immersed in the river. In few other parts, at the time of Dussehra, they observe a fast for nine days and end it on Vijaya Dashami while some end it on the Ashtami. During Navaratri some also arrange Jagaran (Waking up for the entire night by singing devotional songs).

At Varanasi, Lucknow and Kanpur, Dussehra is celebrated with great zeal. Actors in the attire of Lord Rama, Lakshmana and Hanuman perform Rama-lila, the epic saga using audiovisual devices and audience is thrilled to see them setting ablaze the idols of Ravana, Kumbhakarna and Meghanada, on Vijayadashami.

At Gujarat, Dussehra is celebrated as Navaratri or Navaratra. Garba, the famous folk dance is the primary element of Dussehra in this state. People together make themselves tune on the folk songs with multi-colored sticks.

In the South, the Mysore Dasara celebrations attract tourists from all over the world. Goddess Chamundeshwari (Durga) is carried on a golden throne which is mounted atop a decorated elephant. The procession comprising of colorful tableaux, dance groups, music bands, decorated elephants, horses, and camels, starts from the Mysore Palace and ends at a place called Bannimantapa where the banni (shami) tree is worshipped.

To know more visit: https://www.iskconbangalore.org/dasara/