2023 Celebrating Navarātri Festival: “What the Devī can do, you should not do, that’s Her job, that She is supposed to do this, not you”
"Nine are the days, in the night, when the Goddess had to fight the demons and to save Her children from the effects of negativity.
On one side She was Ocean of Love and Compassion, and on the other side She was protecting them like a tigress; because the times were such that nobody could meditate, nobody could take the name of God, nobody could think even of Self-realization. But those who are sitting here today, you have been there also in those days, and you were all saved for today, for this day, so that you can achieve your Self-realization.
The form of the Goddess in those days was not Māyā Swarūpi[n]. She was in Her real form and that created a great awe, even among the disciples. So the question of giving them Self-realization was not there. First of all they were to be saved."
1990-0923 Navarātri Pūjā (4th Day), The Deities Are Watching You, Hall, Arzier-Le Muids, Nyon, Vaud, Switzerland
Nṛisiṁha rūpeṇ‛ogreṇa
In the Fierce Form of a Man-Lion,
Hantum daityān kṛit’odyame
You succeeded in Slaying the Demons,
Trailokya trāṇa sahite
O Benevolent Saviour of the Three Worlds,
Nārāyaṇi namo-‛stu te
Salutations be to You, O Nārāyaṇi.
Aiye Singha pe sawar
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"By the time Ādi Śhakti created the universe, after creating the entire universe, like how a king spread out his kingdom and comes to see the world thereafter in a disguise, in the same way Ādi Śhakti has also incarnated on this Earth many a times."
1973-1209 Public Program (Hindi), Day 3, Śhrī Dattātreya Jayanti, Biralā Krīṛā Keṃdra, Chowpatty, Girgaum Chowpatty, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Śhrī Mātājī: I say that before going out please take a bandhan. It's a kavach, we call it a kavach. Means, kavach, in English there's a word for that?
Sahaja Yogis [suggest]: Protection.
Śhrī Mātājī: That's rather, protection is abstract, but this is a protection of the Mother is a concrete stuff, you see, kavach. So you take the kavach. Kavach is something you can say that people wear those armor, inside, you see that sort of a thing, is kavach. So you must take that before going out or talking to somebody. That you don't do.
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It's just a simple thing, take your kavach when you are going out. It's so simple, I mean, in Sahaja Yoga we don't have to do horrible rituals that people do, nothing of the kind. Just take your bandhan in the morning when you are going out and if somebody is argumentative just give a bandhan. Anything, little bandhan can work out so many things but we forget that we have entered into the Kingdom of God and all the Saints and all the angels and gaṇas are at your disposal.
1992-0704 Śhrī Viṣhṇumāyā Pūjā, Viṣhṇumāyā's Powers, Āśhram, Everbeek, Belgium
Padamékam na gachchhetu yadichchhéchchhu-bhamãtmanah.
Kavachénã-vruto nityam yatra-yatraiva gachchhati.
Tatra tatrartha labhashcha Vijayah sarvakamikah,
Yam yam chintayété kãmam tam tam prãpnoti nishchitam.
Parmaishvaryam-tulam prãpasyaté bhutalé pumãna.
One should invariably cover oneself with this Kavacha (by reading) wherever one goes, and should not walk even a step without it if one desires auspiciousness.
Then one is successful everywhere, and all one’s desires are fulfilled and that person enjoys great prosperity on the earth.
Nirbhayo jāyate martyaḥ, saṅgrāmeṣhv’aparājitaḥ
Trailokye tu bhavet-pūjyaḥ, kavachen'āvṛitaḥ pumān
The person who covers himself with Kavach becomes fearless, and is never defeated
In battle, And becomes worthy of being worshipped in the three worlds.
(In short now it is a bandhan, it is the same thing as Kavacha)
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"So as it is we are today praying to the Goddess that, `Help us to fight our negativity within us. Give us Your tiger so that we fight, give us Your lion so we fight.' Let us fight all these horrible animals that are within us, these horrible haunting things that are within us, these horrible conditionings we have. You have to get rid of it. Still, still if you watch yourself, lots of conditionings are there, lots of things, you see. If you see, there are covered with very thin curtains and you don't see it, but they are there. But let the tiger enter into all these dens and find out. And you enjoy that, riding over the horse, riding over the lion, and riding over the tiger -- like a Goddess. Why not? After all, children get all the heritage of the mother, don't they? So you have all the heritage available to you. But you have to be worthy, in the sense that you have to know that you are worthy, that's all. You have to just know that you are worthy and that you can do it."
1989-1008 Navarātri Pūjā (cusp between 8th Day and 9th Day), The Content Within (How Deeply You Have Touched the Feet of the Divine), Butlins Grand Hotel, Margate (123 kms ESE of London), UK
"I would say, with this, today's special celebration of Navarātri. Like yesterday you saw Śhrī Durgā's Nine Forms, also. In that, one is Kuṣhmāṇḍā, is one of the forms, that you absorb all the filth in yourself, in your stomach.
But the Devī does that, not you. What the Devī can do, you should not do, that's Her job, that She is supposed to do this, not you.
What you have to do is to only be in silence so that you absorb whatever will increase that silence, will increase your depth. The Devī will look after all the rest of the things, She'll look after all the filth, all the anger, all the temper, all the everything that's going on in this world. She will absorb all that, but what you have to do is to just enjoy everything that is pure.
Enjoyment is only possible when you are beyond your mind. With your mind you can never enjoy, it is like a big load. It will not act, it will not help. Enjoyment comes when you are in complete silence, in a rippleless lake, the reflection of all the joy that is created on the shores of that lake are completely reflected, they are not deflected, if they were repulsed it would have been a different image altogether, and would have been something nowhere near the image of reality."
1995-1001 Navarātri Pūjā (cusp between 7th Day and 8th Day), You Must Project Your Depth and Not Reflect, Hangar, Cabella Ligure, Alessandria, Italy
Visṛistau sṛisti-rūpā Tvam sthiti-rūpā cha pālane,
Tathā saṁhṛiti-rūpānte jagato-'sya jagan-maye ǁ 5 ǁ
O You, whose Form is the Universe, at the time of creation You are the Creative Force,
At the time of sustentation You are the Protective Power and at the time of the Dissolution of the World,
You are the Destructive Power.
RACHA PRABHU TUNEY YAHA BRAHMANDA SARA
Oh God You have created the whole universe
PRANON SEY PYARA, BRAHMANDA SARA
The whole universe is dearer than our lives
TUHI MAI BANDHU, TUHI JAGAT JANANI
You are my Mother and brother, You are the Mother of the universe
SAKAL JAGAT MEIN YAH TERA PASARA
The whole universe is but your form
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Auṃ Twameva sākṣhāt Śhrī Kuṣhmāṇḍā sākṣhāt Śhrī Ādi Śhakti Mātājī Śhrī Nirmalā Devī namo namaḥ!
O Divine Mother, You are verily Śhrī Kuṣhmāṇḍā, the one whose void contains the universe! Salutations to You!
Devī Kavacha (English)
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Durgati Harini Durgā Ambe
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Ankhe band karu
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Isi Liye Mātājī hamko
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"See the Swastika became cross at the time of Christ, Swastika is symbol of Gaṇesh ......"
1983-1010 Śhrī Gaṇeśha Pūjā (5th Day of Navarātri and Canadian Thanksgiving Day), Garden, 1386 Lincoln Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada
"These people have decided today to have a Pūjā, and you know what happens to Me when you do My Pūjā. So with all those problems that will be facing later, I would like all of you to be attentive about the Pūjā and to take full advantage of that. With this Pūjā you get the Mother's protection, to begin with. And My chakras, when they start moving, they give you special powers of love and bless all your chakras and fill them up completely. So I would like you, though some two people are coming to do this, all of you to feel that you all are doing it, and you can feel it that way with oneness. And the blessings of My being will flow to you automatically."
1973-0828 Śhrī Kṛiṣhṇa Pūjā, Most Dynamic Power of Love, Gita Mandir Hall, Bharatiya Vidyā Bhavan (3rd floor), 29, Kulapati K.M. Munshi Mārg, Chowpatty, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Jai Śhrī Mātājī!
On behalf of the festivity team!