Maa Durga is coming to your door: full worship material list and method of Shardiya Navratri:

News India Live, Digital Desk: Durga Puja 2025: The biggest festival of devotees of Maa Durga is coming. Maa Durga is going to visit the earth once again with the sound of drums, Durga pandals and the cheers of ‘Jai Mata Di’. This festival is of Sharadiya Navratri, which symbolizes the victory of good over evil. This year Navratri is going to be even more special because mother Durga is coming on an elephant, which is considered a sign of happiness, prosperity and wealth.

If you also want to seize this Navratri Maa Durga in your house and get her grace, then let us know when Sharadiya Navratri is starting in the year 2025, what is the auspicious time of Ghatasthapana, and what things you will need for worship.

Shardiya Navratri 2025 How long?

This year, Sharadiya Navratri will begin on 22 September 2025, Monday, which will conclude with 2 October 2025, Vijayadashami (Dussehra). Due to increase in Chaturthi date, this time Navratri will be of 10 days instead of 9 days.

• Navratri Start (Ghatasthapana): 22 September 2025, Monday
• Navratri ends (Mahanavami): 1 October 2025, Wednesday
• Durga Visarjan/Vijayadashami: 2 October 2025, Thursday

Auspicious time

On the first day of Navratri, the most important work is Kalash installation or Ghatasthapana. It is believed that in the right Muhurta, there is happiness, peace and prosperity in the house.
This year there are two auspicious times for Ghatasthapana

• Morning time Muhurta: From 06:09 am to 08:06 am.
• Abhijeet Muhurta: From 11:49 am to 12:38 pm.

Required material for Navratri Puja

Before starting the puja, you can collect all the ingredients by looking at this list, so that there is no shortage at the time of worship:

Common materials of worship:
Statue or picture of Maa Durga, red chunari, mango leaves, red cloth, molly, makeup items, lamps, ghee or oil, incense, coconut, clean rice, kumkum, flower, paan, betel nut, cloves, cardamom, betasha or masculinity, camphor, fruits and sweets.

For Ghatasthapana (Kalash installation):
A clay vessel, clean soil, barley or wheat rash, a urn (soil or copper), pure water or Ganga water, turmeric lumps, coin, betel nut and whole rice

How to do Ghatasthapana and worship? (Simple worship method)

1. Cleaning of the place of worship: First of all, pure your house temple or any clean place by spraying Ganga water.
2. Sowing barley: Lay a layer of clean soil in a wide pot of soil and spread barley seeds on it. Put another light layer of soil over it and sprinkle a little water.
3. Kalash Establishment: Now take a urn and tie a molly around his neck. Fill the Ganges water in the urn and put betel nut, turmeric lumps, coin and some intact (whole rice) inside it.
4. Mango leaves and coconut: Place five leaves of mango or Ashoka on the face of the urn. Now wrap a red cloth on a coconut and tie it with molly and place it on top of the urn.
5. Pledge to fast: Install this urn in the middle of the barley vessel. Now take flowers and intact in your hand and take a pledge of nine days fast while meditating on Mother Durga.
6. Akhand Jyoti: If you want to burn a monolithic light, then fill ghee in a big lamp and burn it and take a resolution that this light will not be extinguished for nine days. Burning unbroken light is considered auspicious
7. Worship and lesson: Now worship Maa Durga, offer them the goods of chunari and makeup and offer it. After this, recite Durga Saptashati or Durga Chalisa, you have to do this puja in the morning and evening for nine days.

This Navratri Maa Durga is coming riding on an elephant, which is an indication that there will be no shortage of wealth in the country and there will be happiness and peace all around. So you too get ready to welcome the mother with full devotion and devotion.