This year’s topic was ‘Sacred Mountains’. On 13th October, Aastha Over 50s Group held their annual storytelling afternoon, as part of Sheffield’s Off the Shelf festival. This festival from India’s Telangana region involved dancing around flower stacks that symbolise the Goddess. Bathukamma means ‘Mother Goddess come Alive’ in Telugu. During Navaratri the Hindu Samaj Centre celebrated the beautiful Bathukamma flower festival for the first time. Navaratri honours God as the Divine Mother, whom Hindus worship with many names: Durga – Goddess of Strength, Jagadamma – Mother of the World, Lakshmi – Goddess of Abundance, Kali – the Black and Timeless One, among others. First, there was the Navaratri (meaning ‘Nine Nights’) festival, and finally the Dusshera festival. George & Brian Rising to the occasion by Edgar Lowman A balloon, for me? Oops… That didn’t goOctober was a joyous rollercoaster of festivals for Sheffield’s Hindus. Certificates and trophies were awarded including special trophies for selfless community service for Chandeep Singh (who runs an excellent holistic yoga class), and to Hina Patel (who coordinates the Bal Gokulam Sunday morning class educating Hindu children). Police Commissioner Alan Billings was the special guest and witnessed a crowded cultural programme in which children performed many dances and gave a shadow puppet show based on the Ramayana epic. For many Hindus, Diwali the Festival of Lights is the year’s main celebration.
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Was held and after ritual worship, professional musicians led everyone in singing inspirational spiritual On 22nd October a Mata ki Chawkior ‘devotional prayers and songs in praise of the Divine Mother’, With Dusshera, when the triumph of good over evil is celebrated because on this day Lord Rama defeated the ten-headed demon-king Ravana and the Mother Goddess defeated the buffalo-demon Mahishasura. Over a delicious meal cooked by Aastha members, there was an interfaith discussion about the importance of mountains in different traditions. Pandit Ashwini Kumar explained the spiritual significance of mountains and the many lessons that they teach, followed by my own retellings of Hindu tales of sacred mountains. Telangana region involved dancing around flower stacks that symbolise the Goddess. During Navaratri the Hindu Samaj Centre celebrated the beautiful Bathukamma flower festival for Mother, whom Hindus worship with many names: Durga – Goddess of Strength, Jagadamma – Mother of the World, Lakshmi – Goddess of Abundance, Kali – the Black and Timeless One, among others. (meaning ‘Nine Nights’) festival, and finally the Dusshera festival. October was a joyous rollercoaster of festivals for Sheffield’s Hindus.
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