Garba is a circular devotional dance in  celebration of fertility and the divine feminine

 

The word garba literally  means a womb. Garba can also refer to a perforated pot with a light in it and the name Garba is given to the songs which are sung when garba is danced. 

    
Garba Deep is the name given to a clay pot, which is usually perforated and decorated on the outside with a hand made Diva  ( wick )  lit and placed inside. Garba  means a womb and Deep means light. The light inside the pot represents the divine shining through the perforations and the pot symbolises the womb universe. The term GarbaDeep has another symbolic interpretation, that the vessel itself is a symbol of the body, within whom Divinity, in the form of the Goddess resides.  Garba is danced around this symbol to honor the fact that all humans have the Divine energy within them.