COVID Navratri

Navratri is a ten days purification festival in India where we purify our body, mind and the environment.
This is how you should celebrate the current Navratri.

• Greet each other with bowing or Namaste
• Clean your 3 feet area all around (working place, dining table) with 0.1 % bleach solution with wet cloth moping every 8 hours
• Welcome all your guests (athithi devo bhava) like Vedic tradition
• Give then water so that they can was any droplets on the feet
• Give them water and soap to wash their hands
• Give them water to wash their mouth, nose and eyes
• Make them sit maintaining three feet distance
• Do the same yourself and all your family members
• Pay your Pitra Rin (parenteral debt) at this time and look after the elderly in your family. They are at risk of CIOVID 19
• Practice social distancing but not emotional distancing
• Experience self-realisation and give time to your mind the consciousness
• Minimise meeting people and observe self-restrain
• Learn to eat less so that you practice if you end up with a lock down like situation
• Do Pranayama and Meditation daily to stay calmed.
• Speak softly (loud speaking can shed the viruses)
• Do Jalneti nasal wash to stay away from nasal irritation
• Wash your eyes twice a day with water ( triphla)
• Eat satvik food to build up your immunity
• Do Pranayama and take sun bath daily

People of respective religion can observe the next ten days as COVID EID, COVID Easter or CIOVID Paryushan Parv of Jainism

Author : Dr KK Aggarwal , President CMAAO and HCFI