Navratri: Best Devotional Songs And Bhajans To Celebrate Durga Puja
1.Jai Ambe Gauri Aarti
Jai Ambe Gauri is the main aarti sung for Goddess Durga and Goddess Amba. This bhajan glorifies the goddess and her achievements in ****ing and ridding the world from asuras Mahishasura, Shumbh and Nishumbh. The bhajan also explains the appearance of Goddess Durga and the weapons that she carries. The bhajan also takes into account the relationship of Goddess Durga or Goddess Amba with that of her husband Lord Shiva.
2.Mahishasura Mardini Strotam
Mahishasura Mardini was an early Bengali radio programme that is played on the mornings of Mahalaya in West Bengal. This has been broadcasted since 1931 on All India Radio. Birendra Krishna Bhadra is forever immortalized for rendering his voice for the two-hour Sanskrit recitation of Mahishasura Mardini on All India Radio Calcutta. This programme that was aired every year at dawn started off as live performance but now is broadcast in its pre-recorded form. The pre-record form has been on the air since 1966. Birendra Krishna Bhadra’s recorded voice provides a chilling and goosebump-inducing rendition of the shloka.
3. Aigiri Nandini Nanditha Medhini
Aigiri Nandini Nanditha Medhini is a very popular Durga Devi Stotram and is believed to be penned by Adi Shankracharya sometime around 810 AD. The song is sung to praise the Goddess Durga who ****s many demons in her fearsome avatar of Mahishasura Mardini who is depicted with ten arms adorned with different weapons and rides a lion.
4.Durga Chalisa
Durga Chalisa is the song that is sung to praise Goddess Durga and most devotees who are fasting or praying to the Goddess during Navratri read this bhajan to appease the goddess. This bhajan praises all the nine forms of the goddess and glorifies them.
5. Ya devi sarva bhuteshu – Devi Strotam
This devotional song exemplifies the Goddess Durga and salutes the divine power or shakti that is prevalent and inborn in all living beings. The bhajan praises the three flowing channels of energy that is Goddess Lakshmi, Goddess Parvati, and Goddess Saraswati. The bhajan talks about how the Holy Trinity of Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu, and Lord Shiva created Goddess Durga a manifestation of the Supreme Power Adishakti herself.
6.O Sherawali
This popular song from the Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha’s movie Suhaag is also one of the best songs to try your dandiya or garba dance moves. However, as a bhajan as well this song scores full marks as it has the fervor and the exuberance that is needed to portray this festival.
These bhajans and devotional songs will help you celebrate the festival and pray to the Goddess Durga and her manifestations this Navratri. We hope that these songs will help you pray with more reverence and gives you solace and brings you peace of mind.
