What is Dasara ?... Swami explains in His wonderful Divine words :
" The celebration of Dasara is meant to purify the actions performed by the dasendriyas (5 senses of action plus 5 senses of perception)." “Cultivate good behaviour. Then, everything will turn out to be good for you. Nothing will deter you. No difficulty will ever bother you. It is only to enable you to put such good thoughts into practice that goddesses Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati are worshipped during these Dasara celebrations. Durga is not to be understood as a ferocious goddess. She is the goddess supreme who protects you. Lakshmi is the embodiment of all wealth. Then, Saraswati is the goddess of speech. Good thoughts, good words and good actions (behaviour) represent the tathwa (nature) of these three goddesses. He who teaches good things to you is verily the embodiment of goddess Saraswati. He who teaches evil is verily a demon. Goddess Durga destroys only such demons. Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati are, in fact, not different from you. They are very much installed in your own heart. They exhort you to lead the life of a human being, since you are a human being. Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati are the three mothers to a human being.”
