The Ram Navami Festival honours the birthday of Lord Rama (during the month of Chaitra in the Hindu calendar) and is celebrated in great style throughout Mumbai. The Jhavoba Ram Mandir Temple is alive from 4am until late at night.
In the elaborately decorated temple vedic rituals and havans (special offerings and mantras to a sacred fire) are performed and leaflets relating to Lord Rama distributed. Discourses on his life and teachings are delivered and loud processions march through the streets.
Devotees chant sacred mantras, read excerpts of the famous Hindu epic the Ramayana, greet each other with "Sri Ram" or "Jai Ram ji ki" and consume only fruit and milk for nine days. It is the time for Hindus to saturate themselves with the gentle and virtuous spirit of Lord Rama.
A sunrise puja (traditional Hindu prayers and offerings) is planned at the temple around the idol of Lord Rama. As Hindu texts depict his birth at exactly 12 noon, the height of celebrations occurs at midday. In the evening the temple hosts a performance of the Ramayana, sung to traditional Indian classical music.

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