2020 Celebrating Navarātri Festival: “Celibacy must come from within, the purity must come from within”
"What is Pūjā? Pūjā is also a means to enter into that Infinite. What is Namāz? It is a mantra to enter that Infinite. What is prayer? It is a rendition to enter into that Infinite. But, without permission, without connection, there is no meaning to these. You can do as much pūjā as you wish, it is worthless.
...... Without connection whatever pūjā and worship takes place, that too when it goes into extremes and out of balance, becomes harmful."
1975-1222 Public Program (Hindi), Day 1, Prabhu ke Prem kā Anubhav (Experiences of Lord's Love), Gita Mandir Hall, Bharatiya Vidyā Bhavan (3rd floor), 29, Kulapati K.M. Munshi Mārg, Chowpatty, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Sahaja Yogis [prayed to Śhrī Mātājī after the Pūjā]: All the Sahaja Yogis bow to You, O Goddess of Lajjā, and thank You for allowing us to worship You.
May we all your children who have enjoyed the prasada of this beautiful Pūjā and who are so blessed by You, imbibe all the virtues You have so generously showered upon us.
May we spread the message of Sahaja Yoga and bring glory to Your name.
1989-0208 Śhrī Chitta Śhakti Pūjā, House of Mr. Murthy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
"...... this is the highest Pūjā, the greatest ritual, which you can attend. So why do we do Navarātri? In the heart, to do Navarātri is to accept the Powers of the Śhakti, to realize the power that all these chakras have got in themselves, and that when they are enlightened how you can express all these powers of these Nine Chakras within ourselves; the seven chakras plus the heart and the Moon makes it nine. But I would say that seven of these and on top of that, we should say two more centers, which Blake has described surprisingly as nine centers, clearly. Just now I cannot talk of the higher two centers, but let us at least talk of the seven centers."
1984-0923 Navarātri Pūjā (1st Day), The Discipline, Hampstead Town Hall Centre, 213 Haverstock Hill, London NW3 4QP, UK
Dear All,
Today, we celebrate the second day of Navarātri. On this day we recite the Devī Sūktam.
Let us all worship collectively Śhrī Mātājī in Her form of Śhrī Brahmacharini.
Śhrī Brahmacharini is another form of Śhrī Durgā, She is the one who observes the state of Celibacy. She is shown as holding rosary in her right hand and a water utensil in her left hand.
Let us today imbibe her quality of chastity in us.
"The Devī incarnated on this Earth to kill the demonic personalities who try to destroy all the good qualities of women. We also have those demonic personalities within us and they are to be destroyed – not physically, but mentally.
How you accept them and how you deal with whatever they try is very surprising.
You must understand that the goodness of a person is very important. If you are trying to be nasty or dominating then you’ll be definitely destroyed. That’s why this Devī has come on the Earth. That is the assurance of this Devī, the Goddess."
2003-1004 Pūjā (9th Day of Navarātri), House, 268 Overpack Avenue, Ridgefield Park, NJ, U.S.A.
You cannot make anyone Brahmachari or Brahmacharini. It is a state, avasthā, where a person has to rise, like Yogeśhwara, like Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa.
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It is a state of mind where you are not involved. It is a different thing, that you just load somebody with an idea that You should become, absolutely a brahmachārī or a brahmachāriṇī or you should lead a celibate life, forcing them.
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Celibacy must come from within, the purity must come from within."
1983-0203 Public Program (English+Hindi+English), Day 5, The Āgñyā Chakra, N.D.M.C. Park, Hanumān Road, New Delhi, India
"Now one has to think, `Why such an importance is paid to a Virgin? Why a Virgin is respected ... to that extent? What are the Powers of a Virgin?' That She can bear a child of that magnitude that was Christ, that She could create Śhrī Gaṇeśha out of Her own body, that She could protect innocent, dynamic force of Her children who are egoless, who have not known what is ego.
So this Great Power and Force resides in a person who has lots of puru [many, abundant] puṇyas, who has done lots of good things in previous lives, who has always understood that Virginity is a power higher than any other power and would save the Virginity and Chastity with all Her effort and care.
As you know that, within our body, She is placed as Kuṇḍalinī. [It] means She is the Virgin. She is untouched. The desire to become Spirit is without any blemish: nirmala.
There is no blemish. I[t]s waiting is pure. There's no other desire, but to be one with the Divine. All other desi... desires are finished.
It’s a very difficult subject for Me to talk about in the Western country. It’s embarrassing. I do not want anyone of you, whether men or women, to develop any guilt in your mind. Because that is one thing is the greatest blemish as you know, at a later stage this guilt works in the opposite direction. It is of no help. But when we understand that we have these problems, we have to be humble about it. Not guilty but humble."
1982-1017 Navarātri Pūjā (1st Day), Innocence and Virginity (Your Śhakti Is Your Kuṇḍalinī and She Is Virginity or A New Page Has Been Turn), Temple of All Faiths, Hampstead, London, UK
"You must pray to God and ask what you want.
Ask for complete satisfaction in my heart, joy in my heart, bliss in my heart, so that the whole world becomes blissful.
Give me love, love that I could love the whole world and that the whole world becomes one in love.
Give salvation to this humanity which is suffering.
Take me to Your Feet. Cleanse me with Thy Love."
1975-0201 Public Program (Hindi+English), Dhyāna Kyoṃ Karanā Chāhiye (Why Should One Meditate), Prabha Devi, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (other dates 0202 and 0209)
Auṃ Twameva sākṣhāt Brahmachāriṇī sākshāt Śhrī Ādi Śhakti Mātājī Śhrī Nirmalā Devyai namo namaḥ!
O Divine Mother, You are verily Śhrī Brahmachāriṇī, the one who observes the state of celibacy!
Salutations to You!
Yā Devī sarvabhūteśhu
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Śhrī Mātājī Vandu Tav Charana
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Mahur gadawari
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He Ādi Mā he Anti Mā
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Śhrī Lalitā Sahasranām
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Nirmal Mā Nirmal Prān Karo
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"So one must know that these are the Laws of the Divine, that we have to live with self-respect, that we have to be chaste, that we have to have dignity, that we cannot steal money and steal things and be parasites. That we cannot kill others and we cannot beat others and say harsh things, they are just the same. And that we have respect, the respect for all that is sublime. Respect for all the Saints that are Sahaja Yogis."
1984-0930 Aṣhṭamī Pūjā (8th Day of Navarātri), Discipline Has to Be Sahaja (What We Have to Do within Ourselves), Complexe Sportif René Leduc, 12 Rue du Père Brottier, Meudon (12 kms SW of Paris), France
Yā Devī sarvabhūteśhu, Lajjā rūpeṇa saṃsthitā
Namastasyai namastasyai namastasyai namo namaḥ!
Salutations again and again to the Devī who abides in all beings as modesty
We pray to Śhrī Ādi Śhakti, please hear us:
Violence and the perversion of sex in the media pollute the consciousness of the masses.
The diseases of modern life such as cancer, AIDS, and insanity are the direct result of our self-made hellish environment.
Drugs and alcohol throw people into a regression of their consciousness
Śhrī Ādi Śhakti, please undo the evil that men have done.
Jai Śhrī Mātājī!
On behalf of the festivity team!