2023 Celebrating Navarātri Festival: “Kavach …… You have to take for your protection every morning when you go out, and before sleeping you should put your attention here and sleep off.”
"Now, when we are celebrating the greatest of greatest this Navarātri, there must be something special about it, that we have to cleanse this heart completely, fully and make it so pure that it purifies all the blood that passes through the whole of the body. So the cells of this heart, which has made this great organ, has to be the best, because the cells of the heart within a human body are the best cells, the highest quality, the most sensitive. And it's the heart that expresses the Anāhata, the sound that is without percussion.
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...... 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."
1984-0923 Navarātri Pūjā (1st Day), The Discipline, Hampstead Town Hall Centre, 213 Haverstock Hill, London NW3 4QP, UK
"...... the Goddess always uses lion as Her vehicle. Sh... that is the vāhana specially used when, at different levels, She has to be compassionate as well as very harsh to the people who are trying to destroy humanity."
1986-1009 Public Program (6th Day of Navarātri), Lions Club International, G.D. Birla Sabahghar, 29, Ashutosh Choudhry Avenue, Ballygunge, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
"So many powers Mother has to have to protect Her children and to look after them. These powers are all there, working relentlessly all the time, twenty-four hours. So anybody who surrenders to Mother, these powers express themselves and try to help you out of your problems. But first thing is surrendering. If you are not surrendered, if you are not in the Kingdom of the God, then this is not the responsibility of the Mother. Then it might be that some negative force might take over and may destroy you."
1988-1013 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, Navarātri Celebrations (3rd Day), Pratiṣhṭhān, NDA Road, Warje, Pune, Maharashtra, India
"But all these powers are nothing but the Power of God's Love. So, in the series of this Great Love of God, Ādi Śhakti had to first become the Power of Desire.
In the same way, Sahaja Yogis who are bestowed with this Power of Love have to have full desire in their heart. Desire to love. That desire is very different from the other kinds of human love we have known. In other kinds of human love, when we have relations with others, we have expectations, and that's why it is very disappointing."
1985-1019 Navarātri Pūjā (cusp between the 6th Day and 7th Day), Complete Dedication, Gymnasium, Weggis (19 kms E of Luzern on Luzern Lake), Lucerne, Switzerland
Drushyanté rathmãrudhã devyah krodh-samãkulãh.
Shankham chakram gadãm shaktim halam cha muslãyudham. Khétakam tomaram chaiv parshum-pãsha-méva cha.
Kuntãyudham trishulam cha shãrangam-ãyudham-uttamam. Daityãnãm deha-nãshãya bhaktã-nama-bhayaya cha.
Dhãryantãya-yudhaneet-tham devãnãm cha hitãya vai.
All these Goddesses are seen mounted in chariots and are on warpaths.
They are wielding conch, discus, mace, plow, club, javelin, axe, noose, barbed dart, trident bows and arrows.
These Goddesses are wielding their weapons, for destroying the bodies of demons, for the protection of their devotees, and for the benevolence of Gods.
(Kavacha of the Devī)
"Now the kavach. You have to take for your protection every morning when you go out, and before sleeping you should put your attention here and sleep off."
1991-1207 Public Program, Day 2, Geetha Bhawan, 133 Lloyds Road, Ganapathy Colony, Gopalapuram, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
"This was a binding love. She could not escape it. Mother's Love is binding. She cannot escape it. And She has to manifest it, work it out, and give that protection to all Her children.
This protection in the modern times has taken another form.
In those days, the evil was trying to harm, to destroy the people who were righteous, who were bhaktas, who were doing good things, who wanted to lead a very religious life. So to save them, She incarnated. To protect them, She incarnated. But they knew what was good, they knew what was wrong. And they wanted to preserve their good life, their precious life. They didn't care for money, they didn't care for power, but just they wanted their life, means they wanted to be alive to worship the Goddess. And when they were troubled or harmed or destroyed by these evil forces, She had to manifest.
But in modern times, it's become very complicated, as the modern times are complicated. First of all, in the mind, in the lifestyle, in the society, of good human beings, righteous human beings, fear of the wrong has entered.
Like, they are afraid, say, of their pries-sts [priests], of their churches, of their temples, of their mosques, which are all false! They are not afraid of God.
They don't believe in God. They think that they have created God, and they can manage God. 'So who is God?' The way they behave, you can see clearly, that they do not recognize the existence of God, God Almighty who is a wrathful God. They are not at all worried as to what will happen to them."
1991-1013 Navarātri Pūjā (6th Day), False Religion and Recognize Me, Tent, Cabella Ligure, Alessandria, Italy
"But the greatest power that is belonging to the Mother is your protection. Protection from all kinds of things – all the left hand side protections are there. They are described, as you must have learnt on the Devī Māhātmyam – what a protections She gives you. So tremendous in Her protecting power. And this protecting power gives you understanding – how kind She is and how, I should say, how very-very protective, extremely protective. She’ll guide you all the time that you should be protected – on the left side. And through Her Ganas She looks after you."
2002-1027 Navarātri Pūjā (13th day after Dussehra Day), Develop Wisdom through Meditation, Bhakti and Śhraddhā, Lake Piru Recreational Area Campground, 4780 Piru Canyon Rd, Piru (87 kms NW of Los Angeles), CA, U.S.A.
"When there is worship always there's a bell rung. That is good for all the negativity to run away."
1982-1009 Bestowing of Boons Pūjā, House of Maria Laventzi, Irchester (near Wellingborough), Northamptonshire, UK
Hinasti daitya tejamsi swanena pooryaya jagat,
Saa ghanta patu no devi papebhyo nah sutaniva.
O Devī, may Your bell which fills the world with its sound and destroys the power of asuras, protect us from sins, just as a mother protects her children
(Devī Māhātmyam, Chapter 11)
Auṃ Twameva sākṣhāt Śhrī Chandraghaṇṭā sākṣhāt Śhrī Ādi Śhakti Mātājī Śhrī Nirmalā Devī namo namaḥ!
O Divine Mother, You are verily Śhrī Chandraghaṇṭā, the One who is adorned with the Moon as Your bell, Salutations to You!
Apne Panah Mein Hame Rakhna
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"Now, what we call as the Charaṇāmṛut is, means the Ambrose then a ... a Ambrose, Ambrose of My Feet, or you can say Ambrose of My Feet, is not meant for everyone. Neither the blessings of the Pūjā are not meant for everyone. So try to avoid people who are not e yet fully equipped. First thing they will start is doubting. If they do not doubt, also, there will be a problem with the protocol. They won't be able to accept it with that protocol."/font> "Pūjā is one of the things by which you can excite the forms into formless. Now, your centers are the centers of energies. But they, too, have a guiding Deity sitting on all these chakras. They are also the formless made into forms. And when you do the Pūjā, the forms melt into Formless Energy, and this Formless Energy then starts flowing, and that then blows the wind. [Everyone laughs as the wind blows with a noise.] And that's how this misidentification, superimpositions on the Spirit are removed." Jai Śhrī Mātājī!
1980-0505 Sahasrāra Pūjā, Collective Spirit and Complete Integration (Active Sincerity and Patience and Sincerity Is the Key of Your Success), Āśhram, 8, Hamilton Road, Dollis Hill, London NW10 1NX, UK </p>
1983-0618 Havan, Importance of Pūjā and Havan, before Śhrī Rājalakṣhmī Pūjā, Garden, Āśhram, 9, Allée Du Rocher, Le Raincy (13 kms E of Paris), Île-de-France, France
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