2023 Celebrating Navarātri Festival: “Worship of the Śhakti means that there will be a Pūjā of all the Śhaktis of the Devatās.”
"This is a worship of the Śhakti. Until now many Saints, Sages have known and revealed about this Śhakti. Whatever they could not describe in prose, they tried to convey by poetry. Whatever description was not possible to put in words -- they composed different names of the Devī and described. We know all this and many people also know the meaning of this. But one thing they perhaps do not know is that every human being has all these śhaktis, powers dormant in them and they can awaken them. These dormant powers are eternal and limitless.
Besides the thirty-three crores of Devas, there are many Śhaktis. But we can say that this Self-realization that we have achieved today, has been achieved through working of some Śhakti or the other. Without this you could not have achieved the Self-realization."
1988-1016 Navarātri Pūjā (Hindi) (6th Day), Hamāre Jīvana kā Lakṣhya (The Aim of Our Lives), Pratiṣhṭhān, NDA Road, Warje, Pune, Maharashtra, India
"Navarātri is the day to give you the balance. Those whose right hand is tired will get the power in the left hand. Those who have the left hand tired will get the power on the right hand to share the load."
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
"Today it's such a great day for Me to be with you all, again this year. It's so very joyous and full of fragrance. Today we have decided to have a Pūjā of Śhakti that is the Power, that is the Devī. You know within us there are many Powers of Mahākālī, Mahāsaraswatī, Mahālakṣhmī, Kuṇḍalinī.
All these Powers are there for us to ascent. If these Powers are properly used and understood, then your ascent can be permanent. Once you achieve your ascent and enter into the Kingdom of God, all these Powers get enlightened.
And these Powers which are enlightened are absolutely filled with Love. Enlightenment, we have to understand that we get completely enlightened by Love. So after enlightenment, after Realization we use only one Power which is of Love."
1993-0803 Śhrī Śhakti Pūjā, Power of Love, Camp, Shores of Volga, Togliatti, Russia
Śhrī Mātājī: [Explains that Kattyayeni (Kātyāyanī) killed the demon Kolhāsur and this is why Kolhapur is called as such.]
1995-0300 Conversation with K.T. Tan with a Handwritten Line, during a Meal, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Auṃ Twameva sākṣhāt Śhrī Kātyāyanī sākṣhāt Śhrī Ādi Śhakti Mātājī Śhrī Nirmalā Devī namo namaḥ!
O Divine Mother, You are verily Śhrī Kātyāyanī, the One who is the foster-daughter of Sage Kātyāyana, Salutations to You!
"Today we are having this Pūjā of the Śhakti and I want you to understand that this Śhakti belongs to you. With this you are going to be sincere and true Sahaja Yogis.
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I bless you today that all your dormant śhaktis will get awakened, gradually you will feel them and the flow of these śhaktis that are within you will bring the joy and many blessings to you."
1988-1016 Navarātri Pūjā (Hindi) (6th Day), Hamāre Jīvana kā Lakṣhya (The Aim of Our Lives), Pratiṣhṭhān, NDA Road, Warje, Pune, Maharashtra, India
"Today we have gathered to do Pūjā of the Śhakti.
Śhakti means all the Śhaktis and not any one special śhakti. All these Śhaktis are situated on all our chakras and without these Śhaktis no work of the Devatās can be carried out. Like you know that the Śhakti of Kṛiṣhṇa is Rādhā and Rām's Śhakti is Sītā, Viṣhṇu's is Lakṣhmī. So in the same way the abode of the Śhaktis is with the Devatās. The Devatās cannot do anything without the Śhakti. That sole Śhakti is situated in the center Heart as Jagadambā. This Jagadambā Śhakti is very powerful. You know that She lives as a mother or a wife with the Devatās. Worship of the Śhakti means that there will be a Pūjā of all the Śhaktis of the Devatās."
1997-1231 Śhrī Śhakti Pūjā (Hindi + English + Marathi), The Śhakti Within You Wants to Be Loving, Kind, and Generous, Kalwa, Thane, Maharashtra, India
May this benevolent face of Yours, adorned with three eyes, protect us from all terror.
O Kātyāyanī, we bow to You.
Devī Mahātmyam
Etathe vadanam saumyam
May this benign countenance of yours,
Lochana-traya bhushitam
Adorned with three eyes,
Patu nah sarva bhuti-bhyah
Protect us from all the fears
Kātyāyanī namostute
Salutations be to You, O Kātyāyanī
Sarva Mangala
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"To all devotees and followers of truth, who have assembled here for the Pūjā, I offer My protection.
In this Kali Yug of today, when so much devotion and homage for the Mother, and so much love comes into the hearts of human beings, then we can know that Satya Yuga has begun.
This is a most fortunate and divine coincidence for Me also, that on a Ṣhaṣhṭhī Day I came to Kolkata [arrival on 196-1009]. Because, in the Śhāstras it is written that the coming of the Mother is always on Ṣhaṣhṭhī Day. Ṣhaṣhṭhī Day is of Śhākambharī Devī, and on that day the whole nature should be green and lush. "
1986-1010 Navarātri Pūjā (Hindi) (7th Day), Lions Club Safari Park, Southern Avenue, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
AMBE TU PĀRVATĪ PARAMEŚHWARĪ
MAHALAKSHMI TU SAPTAŚHṚIṄGĪ TU JAY JAY ŚHĀKAMBHARĪ
You are Mahālakṣhmī, You are Saptaśhṛiṅgī, Victory to Śhākambharī (The Bearer of the Greens)
JAY JOGEŚHWARĪ JAY MAHEHŚWARĪ JAY JAY PRAṆEŚHWARĪ
Victory to Jogeśhwarī (Goddess of Yoga), Victory to Maheśhwarī (Goddess of Shri Shiva), Victory to Praṇeśhwarī (Goddess of vital breath)
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Durgā Ādi Śhakti Śhrī Mātājī
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He Bhavānī Bhagavatī
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Namostute Bhagavatī Śhrī Mātājī
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Jay Durge Durgati Pariharini
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"Belgium has a speciality that it creates glass bangles for the Mother. That is, the bangles which are used as a beautiful musical accompaniment to the gait, to all the movements of the Goddess. It brings a delicacy in a woman; and gives a consciousness to the man or the men that there are ladies around. And the ladies are around who are married ladies, are very auspicious. And this auspiciousness is the one that is going to bring in this country or in any country whatsoever all the blessings.
Also in Sanskrit language a bangle is called as valaya, and that is the last stage which one has to reach in one's ascent. That means the complete."
1986-0921 Śhrī Mahālakṣhmī Pūjā, Śhrī Jaldevatā, Oude Stadsfeestzaal, Mechelen (27 kms S of Antwerp), Belgium
"Now for Pūjā, one has to understand. But without Realization, Pūjā has no meaning. Because you are not ana-nya. Means: 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.
Otherwise He says ``Puṣhpaṃ, phalaṃ, toyaṃ" [part of Bhagavad Gītā 9.26, line 1], "A flower, a fruit and a water: whatever you give me I accept." But when it comes to giving, He says, ``You have to come to Me with Ananya Bhakti," means: when you have become one with Me, then you should have the devotion, not before that. Before that, you are not connected.
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
Jai Śhrī Mātājī!
On behalf of the festivity team!