2019 Celebrating Navarātri (Day 5): Worshiping Śhrī Mātājī in the form of Śhrī Skandamātā
"Navarātri is very good because these nine nights represent the main nine incarnations. Where the Goddess took the form of Śhakti and killed the negative people. But those were easier days because negativity was understood by people and nobody sympathized. So this is what one has to understand that don’t sympathize with negativity. You’ll spoil them all. And always you’ll find such sympathies bring forth your character also that you are also slightly negative. Because to fight negativity in modern times is a very difficult task.
You cannot kill anyone: if you kill somebody, then may be that such a person is a brother or a sister or something of somebody. Or such a person would be himself or herself a seeker. So best thing is to separate like a contagious disease, keep that person out, no sympathies. And get the person cured and enjoy the life, otherwise that person is not going to be helped. It has become a very individual fight. And it’s so troublesome and so disgusting. So to help Me out, you should not take any sides with negativity. That’s how you can help Me the most. This is what it is the Navarātri, the Pūjā that I give you powers to fight the negativity."
1985-1009 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, after the Public Program, Flat of Ruth and Kingsley Flint, Strasbourg, France
Viśhv'eśwarī twam paripāsi viśhwam
O Goddess of the universe, You are its protector.
Viśhw’ātmikā dhārayas’īti viśhwam
You are the universe, You are its support.
Viśhw’esha-vandyā Bhavatī bhavanti
You are worshipped by the Lord of the universe.
Viśhw’āshrayā ye twayi bhakti-namrāhā
Those who are devoted to You themselves become a refuge for all.
(Devī Mahātmyam, Chapter 11, Nārāyanī Stotram, śhlokas 33 & 35)
"We decided to have this Pūjā of Durgā today that all negativity should be destroyed. So many Deities build up the body of Kālī. Every part of Her body was created by a Deity, looked after by a Deity, and is also, later on, is reflected in you all. So they say that God has made human beings in His own image, I would say, I’ve made you in My own image, all the Deities at your disposal. They’re all with you, and they have created you – if you see it minutely – it is the Deities who have brought forth all the beauty that you had. They have made all this beautiful congregation, beautiful transformation, and they have created such angelic people out of you. They are always working it out, but one thing you have to do is to have the drive. You had pure desire to ascend, but for what? You want to have the light, but for what? You want to become gurus, for what? To save people, for their salvation. Only through your channels, I can work out Sahaja Yoga. If I could work out Myself, I would have. It’s not a question of killing one rākṣhasa. God knows how many there are, rākṣhasas and rākṣhasas. And they are everywhere, even within you they were. Now they’ve gone out.
So you have to do full justice to Sahaja Yoga, that’s very important."
1992-0725 Śhrī Durgā Mahākālī Pūjā, Paris, France
Kāla-rātrīm Brahma-stutām Vaishnavīm Skanda-mātaram
Saraswatīm Aditim Dakṣha-duhitaram namāmah pāvanām śhivām
Salutations to the Goddess, Who is the darkest night,
Who is praised even by Brahmadeva Himself,
Who is the Power of Śhrī Viṣhṇu, The Mother of Śhrī Kārttikeya,
Who is Saraswatī, Śhrī Aditi (Mother of the Gods),
the Daughter of Dakṣha, and the Consort of Śhrī Śhiva.
Auṃ Twameva sākshāt Śhrī Skandamātā sākshāt
Śhrī Ādi Śhakti Mātājī Śhrī Nirmalā Devyai namo namah
O Divine Mother, You are verily The mother of Śhrī Kārttikeya
Salutations to You!
"Śhrī Kārttikeya Himself has taken birth here! Śhrī Saraswatī is known as Skandamātā, She was not His mother and was virgin.
But, but She took Skanda [Kārttikeya] as Her Son and held Him to Her heart. But how great it is that Śhrī Kārttikeya found Maharashtra to take birth! The whole world becomes joyous reading what Śhrī Gyāneśhwara has written, but it is all contrary here."
1996-1221 Śhrī Kārttikeya Pūjā (Marathi+English), C.B.D. Belapur, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
"You understand the meaning: is the ... is the praise of the Dayānī uh ... the Bhavānī, the Goddess.
Is She so knuuh compassionate and She's the One who is uh described by all the human beings, and all the great Saints, and all the Gods.
And the second [thing] is that She Herself, She, when She gets angry, She can become a volcano.
And when She's a Chaṇḍī, She's ... She's a volcano, and that is how She killed Mahiṣhāsura.
That is the song, is uh quite a powerful song. But My voice ......"
1985-0518 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Evening Bhajans, the day before Śhrī Gaṇeśha Pūjā, Nirmala House, Sant'Angelo Romano (7 kms N of Guidonia), Italy
Śhrī Mātājī along with Sahaja Yogis sings Bhavani Dayānī
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"Now the Durgā's qualities are that She is protective of Her children, She's very gentle, very soft with Her children, and She's extremely horrifying to the satanic people, to the negative people. So in this rāga I think because there are, the notes are spaced out. So either you could play it slow or you could play it fast. Nothing in between. That's why it is on a Durgā's style. You see, either She is extremely gentle or She is extremely horrifying. So because She has a double function: is one to look after Her children, and another is protect Her children from the devils. So She has to be very quick about it, to fight them, and to, in every way to frighten them and to be alert about it.
So in the second part you all became very alerted I saw. In the first part you were having a lullaby because it was the Mother's Love that was playing. The second part you became alert, because She has to fight. Now, this is such a nice rāga because it gives you a better sense of security within yourself, builds up sense of security, and also as you know medically that it's important to build up this chakra because that gives you antibodies created. So to fight all the diseases, to fight all the foreign things which try to attack us.
So this rāga is so apt, absolutely apt for today's atmosphere and for today's need. That we have to have the security of the Mother and the protection of the Mother and that all the evil forces must be finished from this world, and that's how this rāga has a very great significance ......"
1990-0819 Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa Pūjā, Hallowtree Scout Campsite, Nacton, Ipswich IP10 0JP, UK
Salutations to You O Goddess Chāmuṇḍā Nārāyanī,
whose mouth was dreadful with its great teeth,
Who wore a garland of human skulls as an ornament and killed the demon Muṇḍa.
(Mahālakṣhmī Hymn, Chapter 11 of the Devī Mahātmyam)
"She gives us the protection. She’s the Protector. And She’s the Mother of this world, Jagadambā."
1977-0222 Public Program, Day 1, Delhi University, North Campus, Timarpur, New Delhi, India
Today the love of Śhrī Jagadamba is expressed
Śhrī Jagadambe Aye re
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"You are Sahaja Yogis.
What is your destiny? Your destiny is to achieve the spiritual success [spiritual ascent].
The Devī destroyed ‘Chaṇḍā and Muṇḍa’, that is why She is called Chāmuṇḍā. They are all back in this Kali Yuga, all of them."
[Prayer to the Devī: ‘O Devī, please give us the spiritual personality, the victory, the spiritual ascent and destroy our enemies.']
1988-1015 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Your Destiny Is to Achieve the Spiritual Success and Have I Fulfilled My Destiny, Navarātri Celebrations (5th Day), Pratiṣhṭhān, NDA Road, Pune, Maharashtra, India
"This song that you have heard has been composed in the year of 1600. And in this song the poet has sung for the rustic people, in their language. That, “Oh Mother, give us our Realization!” ‘Jogawa’ means the Yoga, the Union with the Divine and the Sahaja Yoga means spontaneous. It fills My heart to see how since long the seekers have been asking for this Union with the Divine. What a search! What a seeking!
By the very simple people of the villages. Today we have so many people who are great Seekers of Truth. At the same time there are many people who are in the market, they are selling all kinds of things in the market, in the name of the Divine or God.
One has to realize that this Union with the Divine works out through a living force. Just like a seed gets sprouted spontaneously when placed in the Mother Earth, in the same way this residual force of Kuṇḍalinī is sprouted. Now in the song when they are saying “Uday, uday, Ambe!” Then they are meaning – Ambe means the Kuṇḍalinī, ‘uday’ means now please awaken, awaken, awakend."
1988-0610 Public Program, University, Graz, Austria
Jogwa 1, (Marathi 6), Śhrī Mātājī explains the meaning of the bhajan.
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Victory be to You,
O Devī Chāmuṇḍā (killer of Chaṇḍā and Muṇḍa),
victory be to You who destroys the suffering of all living beings.
Victory be to You, O Devī Who is present everywhere.
Salutations to you O Kālarātrī (the longest night)
(Argala Stotram)
Jagadambetza Jogwa
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Śhrī Jagadambe Aye re
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Tere he Gun Gate hai
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Of these Argala Hymns Śhrī Viṣhṇu is the ṛiṣhi, anuṣhṭup is the metre,
Mahālakṣhmī is the Deity, and it is recited for the love of Śhrī Jagadambā as a part of Saptaśhatī.
Argala Strotrum
in Sanskrit: video
Skandamātā is four-armed and rides on a lion. She carries two lotus flowers in Her two hands.
Her one hand is in a blessing posture, Abhaya-dān Mudrā, and with the other She holds Her son Lord Skanda (Śhrī Kārttikeya) in Her lap.
Jai Śhrī Mātājī!
On behalf of the festivity team!