2022 Celebrating Vasant Panchami: “He sent to us, was Mahāsaraswatī and to this Mahāsaraswatī Power, He called Counselor, the One who will counsel you”
"Today we have the idea to do Saraswatī’s Pūjā. [unclear] I have seen that here people worship Mahākālī and Saraswatī, people worship Devī and people are simple natured. We should worship Saraswatī as well.
Saraswatī’s work is very great. First, Mahāsaraswatī created the entire universe. The earth element is special in this. The earth element has been placed in such a way between the Sun and the Moon that any living work can easily happen on it. From this living work, slowly and gradually human beings have been generated.
But we should know our own great power. That power is what we call creation power, it’s also called creativity. This creation power is the blessing of Saraswatī by which many arts have been generated. The evolution of art is due to the blessings of Saraswatī."
1992-0403 Śhrī Saraswatī Pūjā, Emerlin College, Yamunānagar, Haryana, India
"Only the Sahaja Yogis, those who are enlightened people, can worship Mahasaraswati.
Otherwise, people can only worship Saraswati because with worship of Saraswati you can read books,
you can create dances, music, for the amusement of human beings,
but actually, the Saraswati Puja is meant for people of ordinary awareness, means ordinary or normal human awareness.
But for Sahaja Yogis, it is the Mahasaraswati which is to be worshiped."
1990-0811 Śhrī Saraswatī Pūjā, Inform People like the Viṣhṇumāyā Does what Sahaja Yoga Is with Your Fiery Talks (Go All Out and Become Fiery), Tent, Grounds, Āśhram, Lyons Bay (near Vancouver), BC, Canada
"Hiraṇyagarbha (Prajāpati) is the creator aspect of God Almighty. It acts in the stomach of the Primordial Being which is a Void, also referred to as the Ocean of Illusion (Bhavasāgara). (The way this Void was created is covered later.) Hiraṇyagarbha’s Power incarnates as Mahāsaraswatī, and the entire material creation is the product of Her power and activity: She created all the galaxies, stars, and planets including our own Sun, Moon, and Earth. She also functions as the thinking power of the Primordial Being, and this process generates the Cosmic Ego (Ādi Ahaṅkāra). The channel carrying this power is the Ādi Piṅgalā Nāḍī, and it expresses the Primordial Preconscious Mind (Ādi Chitta). It acts like a postman who carries messages to the intellect of the Almighty."
The Book of Ādi Śhakti, Chapter 1: Creation, the Eternal Play
"Mahāsaraswatī Principle is on the right side as I’d ... you all know. First is the Brahmadeva’s Principle, which is the Saraswatī Principle, and then this Mahāsaraswatī takes you to the Principle of Mahābrahmadeva called as Hiraṇyagarbha.
Now, this Hiraṇyagarbha Principle is very important for Sahaja Yogis.
First of all, those who think too much or those who create too much without Realization, those who express themselves in poetry or in literature or in music, you can say, in paintings, in all kinds of arts; if they are not realized Souls, then they go to the left to the extreme or to the right. So for example, if there is an artist, if he goes to the right, gradually his paintings will become extremely violent expressions.
Would be very much showing something very violent and also rather, I would say, he would be a man who would be inflexible. He’ll have his own style, he can’t move into another style. He’ll use the same style and he will not get into any other style. Kind of an austere nature he develops in his productions and then when he gets tired of it, then he will take to something, you can say, like abstract art. But without Realization, the abstract art can be something very absurd and funny."
1992-0223 Śhrī Mahāsaraswatī Pūjā, Modern Art and Literature, 24 Pukenui Road, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand
"...... only for hymns to be sung in the praise of God. All music should be in the praise of God. All rāgas should be in the praise of God."
1983-0202 Public Program (English+Hindi), Day 4, The Viśhuddhi Chakra, N.D.M.C. Park, Hanumān Road, New Delhi, India
Tu swar kī Devī, ye sangīt, tujh se,
You are the Goddess of music, and this song,
Har Shabd tera hai har geet tujh se,
all its words and the tune, comes from You.
Ham pār Sahaj mein, teri kripa se
Only with Your compassion we become pār in Sahaj.
Nirmal Vidya ka vardan de ma
Please grant us the boon of Śhrī Nirmala Vidya.
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"At the level of Mahāsaraswatī, the ideas, the way one perceives things, changes. It changes even in everyday life. The person starts to see that they have become whole, one, 'We all are one.'
So when such an artist, whatever he creates makes something so beautiful, he does it so beautifully that one accepts from the heart. From the heart people say, 'This is a very beautiful work.'
Still we should understand that all the works that we do of Saraswatī, we perform the Pūjā of Saraswatī, we are not surrendered. If it is surrendered to Saraswatī and is surrendered to God, then it becomes immortal.
You can see that all the art that has remained immortal, are all created for God. All the poems, songs. If you see today's songs, every time new songs come in the movies and then they die down. But we still listen to those songs or recite the verses written by Kabīr, Gyāneśhwar.
Even in foreign countries I see that whatever William Blake or Shakespeare had written is still remembered. They were all realized people. Mozart was self-realized. Through their Self-realization they obtained the Mahāsaraswatī's Śhakti and whatever they wrote or created in the light of that Power was of a unique kind. There was nothing in them that you could say they were uncultured. They were so cultured that they could unite the world.
Once you become a Sahaja Yogi, then you should move on the Mahāsaraswatī Tattwa. One should not only move on Saraswatī Tattwa as this limits you, limits your imagination.
If the Saraswatī Tattwa is the seed, then the tree is Mahāsaraswatī. Till the time you do not convert this seed into the Mahāsaraswatī, till then you cannot merge with Mahālakṣhmī. The gift of Mahālakṣhmī within you is that you get your Self-realization.
Secondly that you have achieved is Mahākālī Tattwa.
All the Three Powers meet at Āgñyā."
1992-0203 Śhrī Mahāsaraswatī Pūjā (Hindi), Mahāsaraswatī Tattwa, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
"The second power, which He gave us, which He sent to us, was Mahāsaraswatī and to this Mahāsaraswatī Power, He called Counselor, the one who will counsel you – that means, who helps us for Yoganirūpaṇ [to see the form of Yoga].
With the help of this second power, we will get Gyān [Knowledge], we will know the subtle knowledge."
1996-0414 Easter Pūjā (Hindi), Kolkata, West Bengal, India
"Saraswatī cleanses all that is impure in nature, while with our brain activity we are spoiling all that.
All our brain activity goes against pure intelligence. And that's what one has to understand: that this pure intelligence is not to be soiled by our thinking. Our thinking can make us so bumptious, so ego-oriented, so impure that we can really eat the poison and say, 'What wrong?'' Just the opposite of Saraswatī.
If Saraswatī will be in u ... is within us, She gives us subuddhi, wisdom.
And that's why, to worship Saraswatī, to worship Sūrya, we must have that clear vision as to what we have to be, what we are doing, what filth we are living in, what our mind is getting into. After all, we are here for emancipation and not for just pampering our ego and living with our filth that is with us.
So, this Light has come within us and we should try to rise above our own mental filth, which is being created around us. "
1983-0114 Śhrī Saraswatī Pūjā (English+Marathi) (Makar Saṅkrānti Day), Śhrī Saraswatī's Blessings (The Basis of All Creativity of Saraswatī is Love, Permeating Spirit, The Purest Form of Nature Is within Us and Subudhi), Dhule, Maharashtra, India
"She is a person of humility, so the person who is a learned has to be humble. If he is not humble, then he’s not learned according to the Principle of Saraswatī. She has – the person who is very much learned has to bow down with the fruits of his learnings so that a person who is learned and thinks no end of himself is a person who has not yet learned fully, is a half-baked person and that’s why an egoist cannot be a learned man. Learned man is always extremely humble. That is the sign because She is the Power which gives you humility, not humility of a businessman but a genuine humility She gives you."
1990-0811 Śhrī Saraswatī Pūjā, Inform People like the Viṣhṇumāyā Does what Sahaja Yoga Is with Your Fiery Talks (Go All Out and Become Fiery), Tent, Grounds, Āśhram, Lyons Bay (near Vancouver), BC, Canada
"It is very essential for Sahaja Yogis to get down to the skills of art and understand art.
May you always have the blessings of Śhrī Saraswatī.
Especially the one who has got Self-realization today, it is a very good thing that after getting self-realized if art is taken up, then it becomes very fragrant and beautiful in the hands of Sahaja Yoga."
1992-0403 Śhrī Saraswatī Pūjā, Emerlin College, Yamunānagar, Haryana, India
"Now the second one is Mahāsaraswatī, is at Māhūragaḍ. We always sing Māhūragaḍ. Wari song, that is the one – is Mahāsaraswatī, which is also called as Reṇukā Devī, that’s the right-sided Mahāsaraswatī."
1990-1221 Śhrī Mahālakṣhmī Pūjā (Hindi+English), Hall, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India
Mahur Gadawari, Mahur Gadawari ga Tujha Vasa,
On the hill of Mahur (village close to Nagpur), O goddess You stay,
Bhakt. Yetil. Dar. Shanas.
Devotees all come to receive Your darśhan.
Pivle patal ga, Pivle patal Buttedar
You wear a yellow sāṛī with golden design,
Angi Choli hi hirvigar.
And a blouse of an intensely green color,
Pītāmbarachi ga, pītāmbarachi Khowuni kas
Dressed with pītāmbaras (yellow dhotīs)
Bhakt. Yetil. Dar. Shanas.
Devotees all come to receive Your darśhan
(Mahurgad, where the Shrī Mahāsaraswatī/Shrī Renuka Devī swayambhū is)
Mahur gadavari: video
Auṃ Twameva sākṣhāt Śhrī Mahāsaraswatī sākṣhāt Śhrī Ādi Śhakti Mātājī Śhrī Nirmalā Devī namo namaḥ!
108 Names of Śhrī Saraswatī
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Aisa Do Hamein Gyan
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Gyan De, Ma Nirmal
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Mātā Saraswatī Śhāradā
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Pt. Bhimsen Joshi - Jay Jagdishwari Mātā Saraswatī - Savai Gandharva
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Śhrī Mātājī Devī Saraswatī Śhāradā Mātā: by Ajit Kadkade
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Yā kundendu tushāra hāra dhavalā
She who is as fair as fragrant white Kunda flowers, the moon, the fine misty spray of the waterfall and the white garland;
Yā shubhra vastrā vṛutā
She who is covered with white garments;
Yā vīnā vara danda mandita karā
She whose hands are decorated with the vina’s slender neck;
Yā shweta padm’āsanā
She who resides in a white lotus;
Yā Brahm’āchyuta Shaṅkara Prabhṛutibhir
She whom Śhrī Brahmā, Śhrī Viṣhṇu, Śhrī Śhiva and all the Deities
Devaihi sadā vanditā
Constantly praise and worship;
Sā mām pātu Saraswatī Bhagavatī
O You, who are that Goddess Saraswatī Bhagavatī, please bless us and protect us.
Nishesha jādy’āpahā
Destroy all our ignorance.
Śhrī Saraswatī Vandanā (Prayer to Śhrī Saraswatī)
Jai Śhrī Mātājī!
On behalf of the festivity team!