2020 Celebrating the Navarātri festival: “In Sahaja Yoga, Navarātri is the most important Pūjā I would say …… Navarātri is the one which has brought you to Sahasrāra.”
"Now for Pūjā, one has to understand that without Realization, Pūjā has no meaning, because you are not ananya. Is, you have to become aware of your whole. Kṛiṣhṇa’s description of bhakti is ananya. He says, “I will give you Ananya Bhakti,” He wants Ananya Bhakti, means when there is not the other, means when we are realized.
...... Now Pūjā is the left-hand side projection. It’s the neutralization of the right side, very much. Specially for people who are very right-handed, atmosphere which is very right-handed, Pūjā is ideal for them. Is the bhakti, is the devotion ... that you project."
1980-0719 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, The Meaning of Pūjā, House of Pamela Bromley, 22 College Gardens, Brighton, East Sussex, UK
"She gives us the protection.
She’s the Protector.
And She’s the Mother of this world, Jagadambā."
1977-0222 Public Program, Day 1, About Different Chakras and Their Deities, Gāndhī Bhawan, Delhi University, North Campus, GC Narang Road, Timarpur, New Delhi, India
Today the love of Śhrī Jagadamba is expressed
Jay Jagadambe
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"So the ascent starts evolving. In that, the play of the Devī is the Navarātri – in your ascent – from ages. Navarātri that’s why is the most important Pūjā. In Sahaja Yoga, Navarātri is the most important Pūjā I would say. Though we can say in modern Sahaja Yoga Sahasrār Day is, because that’s how you started getting your Realization. But if you go to the whole historical events of evolution you’ll find [that] Navarātri is the one which has brought you to Sahasrāra. Without the help of the Devī at different stages of your ascent, you could not have been in a position to receive your Realization. So all the steps that you took in the past are today worshipped and are used for thanking the Devī for what She did to bring you down here. So it’s like a thanksgiving. Without Her work nothing could have happened.
So when we read about the Devī, about Her Incarnations: how She came on this Earth to save Her bhaktas, people who were trying to ascend, to cross this Bhavasāgara, how She worked hard, how She fought the devils, how She fought, She killed the demons single-handed, She took upon Herself the responsibility of making the people cross the Bhavasāgara.
Guru gave you the strength to have dharma but She is the one who brought you out. Even those who were dhārmik could not do it because of the demonic pressure. She’s the one who fought single-handed with Her Powers of destruction. In Her Love, for you She fought. She brought you to this level. And then She took a milder form of Incarnation. Even during the time of all the Gurus She took the form of, as you know, Jānakī was the daughter of Janaka, then Fāṭimah was the daughter of Muhammad Sāhib and Nāṇakī was the sister of Nāṇaka. In those forms, these Powers sustained and nourished the Guru Tattwa.
And later on, or sometimes simultaneously, They incarnated in milder forms to help human beings to rise. So today is the day of thanksgiving. As Guru Pūjā is a day of thanksgiving to your Guru, the One who has counseled you, the One who has told you about the Truth, the One who has taught you the Truth and has given you Realization. And the Devī Pūjā is a thanksgiving where single-handed, just like a very loving Mother, under Her sāṛī, She protected you, fought for you, fought with every enemy that is around, every sort of problems that existed and ultimately brought [you] into Sahasrāra level and then gave you Realization. It’s a real thanksgiving to the Mother.
So we can say Navarātri is like a Mother’s Day where you give thanksgiving to Her: which was just relentless, continuous working for Her children."
1985-1019 Navarātri Pūjā (cusp between the 6th Day and 7th Day), Complete Dedication, Gymnasium, Weggis (19 kms E of Luzern on Luzern Lake), Switzerland
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 Munda
(Mahalakshmi Hymn, chapter 11 of the Devī Māhātmyam)
"You come up now to the Heart chakra. Heart chakra is divided into three parts. In the center of the Heart chakra resides Jagadambā Herself. But [in] the left side as I have told you resides Śhiva and His Power is Pārvatī. When Pārvatī Herself separates Her identity with Her Lord and enters in the center to save Her children from the domination of the evil spirits, then She resides in the center and She is the Jagadambā. This is called as “Sacred Heart” in the Bible. She resides as Jagadambā. She has taken many Incarnations to save.
Today there was Lalitā Pañchamī, they sang the song of Lalitā. The way She took Her Incarnations to fight the evil forces, to save the bhaktas from the domination of satanic and depraving personalities. She is there within you also, if not awakened She can be awakened. She is all the time there to save you from those satanic forces."
1976-0205 Public Program (Vasant Pañchamī), Day 2, Description of Kuṇḍalinī, after Śhrī Viṣhnu Havan, New Delhi, India
Dear All,
Jai Śhrī Mātājī!
Today on Pañchamī, we celebrate the 5th day of Navarātri.
This day as Śhrī Mātājī spoke in 1988, the Devī killed the rakshasas, chanda and munda, and the Devī was called Śhrī Chāmuṇḍā.
This day we also worship the Durga in Her form of Śhrī Skandamātā (The Mother of Śhrī Kārttikeya). She is described as holding a lotus in one hand and the baby Śhrī Kārttikeya in another.
Śhrī Skandamātā is the form of Devī who is fierce as well as very gentle and soft.
On this day, the fifth night of Navarātri, we also sing Jogawa.
"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."
1996-1221 Śhrī Kārttikeya Pūjā (Marathi+English), Śhrī Gyāneśhwara, Park (200 m from ISYRH Center), C.B.D. Belapur, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Kāla-rātrīm Brahma-stutām Vaiṣhṇavīm Skanda-mātaram
Saraswatīm Aditim Daksha-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 Saraswati, Śhrī Aditi (Mother of the Gods),
the Daughter of Daksha, and the Consort of Śhrī Śhiva.
"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!
1988-0610 Public Program, University, Graz, Austria
Jogawa 1 (Marathi 6), Śhrī Mātājī explains the meaning of the bhajan
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Argala Strotam: (recited on the 5th day of Navarātri)
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Jagadambetza Jogwa
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Śhrī Jagadambe Aye re
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Jago Hey Jagadambe
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Bhavani Dhayani
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"So today is the day when your Mother took out the sword to kill all the enemies,
and you have to kill the greatest enemy within yourself – is irresponsibility."
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
"Right-hand side comes when we talk big. It’s a common thing with your politicians, they talk very big. They think they’re very responsible people and do all irresponsible things. So when you want to spoil that chakra, one has to do some irresponsible talk."
1985-0602 Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa Pūjā, Play the Melody of God, Tent, Backyard, House of Judy Gaddy, 442 Liberty Road, Englewood, NJ, U.S.A.
We bow and pray to You Śhrī Mahakali, please Hear us:
Remove our irresponsible behavior and make us more disciplined
Corrupt government and politicians cannot handle the problems of the Kali-yuga but, on the contrary, can only massively add to them.
Śhrī Adi Shakti, please undo the evil that men have done.
Auṃ Twameva sākṣhāt Śhrī Skandamātā sākshāt
Śhrī Ādi Śhakti Mātājī Śhrī Nirmalā Devyai namo namaḥ!
O Divine Mother, You are verily The mother of Śhrī Kārttikeya
Salutations to You!
Jai Śhrī Mātājī!
On behalf of the festivity team!