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Sarasvati: Hindu Goddess

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Sarasvati (Sanskrit: सरस्वती, Sarasvatī) is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, arts, wisdom and learning. She is a part of the trinity of Sarasvati, Lakshmi and Parvati. All the three forms help the trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva to create, maintain and regenerate-recycle the Universe respectively.
Sarasvati is the Sakti, the power and the consort of Brahma the creator. Hence she is the procreatrix, the mother, of the entire creation.
The earliest known mention of Sarasvati as a goddess is in Rigveda. She has remained significant as a goddess from the Vedic age through modern times of Hindu traditions. The Goddess is also revered by believers of the Jain religion of west and central India, as well as some Buddhist sects. In the rigveda she represents a river and the deity presiding over it. Hence, she is connected with fertility and purification. Sarasvati represents power and intelligence from which organized …show more content…

This religious quest represents a state of transition or rebirth in which a spiritual pilgrim sloughs off his old self and is born again, free and enlightened.
Festivals and Vrats
Sarasvati's is remembered on Vasant Panchami (Sarasvati's birthday) is a Hindu festival celebrated every year on the fifth day of spring (about February). In Hindi language, the word '' basant / vasant'' means ''spring'' and ''panchami'' means the fifth day.
Hindus celebrate this festival with great fervour in temples, homes and educational institutes alike. It is also celebrated as Shikshapatri Jayanti. On this day, yellow is the predominant color as all are garbed in bright yellow clothes. This has to do with the onset of spring and the blooming of yellow mustard flowers in the fields. There is a great deal of festivity with the flying of colorful kites. This day marks the beginning of the spring season.

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