Durga Puja 2024: Why is the idol of Maa Durga made from brothel soil? What women power?

Durga Puja 2024: Shardiya Navratri has started from 3rd October and this festival will end with Vijayadashami on 12th October 2024. 9 days of Shardiya Navratri are dedicated to the worship of Adishakti Maa Bhagwati. Therefore it is also called Durga Puja.

During Durga Puja, idols of Maa Durga are installed in temples, big puja pandals and in every house and are worshiped with devotion for the whole 9 days. But do you know that the soil of the prostitute’s courtyard is used in the idol of Maa Durga that is made for Durga Puja.

Honoring women’s power by bowing one’s head and asking for soil from a prostitute.

It is believed that if the soil from the courtyard of the brothel is not used for the idol of Maa Durga, then the idol is considered incomplete. Not only this, if a priest or a sculptor goes to a brothel to ask for soil to make an idol, his mind should be clean and honest. At the same time, soil is asked for from the prostitute respectfully by bowing the head. After this, when the prostitute gives soil from her courtyard, then the idol of Maa Durga is made from it and the idol is considered complete.

Bowing one’s head before prostitutes gives the message that in the form of women power, they too were given equal status in the society. Let us know from Dr. Anish Vyas, Director, Astrologer, Pal Balaji Astrology Institute, Jaipur, Jodhpur, what is the reason for making the idol of Maa Durga from the soil of the courtyard of the brothel.

That’s why the soil of the brothel is pure

Astrologer Anish Vyas explains that the woman of the house is considered Lakshmi Swarupa. That means the form of Lakshmi ji. In such a situation, when a man leaves his wife and goes to a prostitute, all his good deeds are left behind in his own courtyard. Therefore the soil in the courtyard of prostitutes becomes sacred. Every man who goes inside a brothel becomes a participant in sin.

Along with the soil from the courtyard of the brothel, these things are also necessary for the idol.

To make the idol of Maa Durga for Durga Puja, soil from the courtyard of the brothel along with other things are required and these are considered very important for making the idol. Even without all these things the idol is not complete. Anish Vyas explains that, along with the soil from the courtyard of the brothel, soil from the banks of Ganga, cow urine and cow dung are also used to make the idol of Maa Durga. The tradition of using these things for making idols has been going on for centuries.

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According to mythological and popular story- once some prostitutes were going to Ganga River for bathing. Then his eyes fall on a leprosy patient who is sitting on the banks of the Ganges and while passing by, he requests people to help him take a bath in the Ganges. But people were not even looking at the leprosy patient, forget giving him a bath. Then the prostitutes took pity on him and made the leprosy patient bathe in the Ganges. That leprosy patient was none other than Lord Shiva himself.

Lord Shiva was pleased with the prostitutes and came in his true form and asked them to ask for a boon. Then the prostitutes said that the idol of Maa Durga should be made from the soil of our courtyard. Lord Shiva gave this boon to the prostitutes. After this, the tradition of making idols of Maa Durga from the soil of the banks of Ganga as well as from the courtyards of prostitutes started, which continues till today.

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