Devi Mahatmyam

======================================================================= ======================================================================= Saturday, October 01, 2022. 07:30. SIXTH NIGHT GODDESS OF AUSPICIOUSNESS AT HOME AND AT HEART ======================================================================== Divine Mother who is the one Power that sustains the universe.  She is the source of Power manifest in and through the various names and forms. Salutations again and again to Her who manifests within our hearts as aspiration, as Sadhana-Shakti and preserves our Yoga and who ultimately manifests Herself as Pure Knowledge in our consciousness and illuminates our entire being. Today we come to the third sacred day of worship of the Divine Mother in Her aspect of Sri Lakshmi or Vishnu Shakti or Narayani. On this sixth day of the Navaratra Worship ours is the rare blessing and good fortune to dwell upon the Goddess Lakshmi as She manifests to the individual in the intimate sphere o...

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================== Friday, September 30, 2022. 07:30. This Navaratri message was given in on the 13th of October, 1972. A collection of messages by Swamiji during various spiritual festivals including this message can be found in Swamiji’s book, “Spiritual Import of Religious Festivals”. ======================================================================== Our longings are fundamentally very deep and cannot be easily satisfied by temporary make shift or day-to-day adjustment of outer circumstances. Our desires are profound, our yearnings are very unintelligible to outer atmosphere of our daily life. We seem to have a root which is deeper than what can be comprehended by our normal understanding of the world. We grow from all sides, and when we long for or desire or yearn or aspire, we do so in a very comprehensive manner. This aspiration of the human bei...

 ======================================================================== ========================================================================= Thursday, September 29, 2022. 08:00. DEVI MAHATMYAHAM : Navaratri Message: Worship of the Threefold Justice of the Cosmos : Swami Krishnananda. (Spoken on October 14, 1983.) ========================================================================= Twice in a year, usually, the religious custom of India observes a unique festive worship in the name of the great Mother of the universe, these two occasions of worship being called the Vasanta Navaratri and the Sharada Navaratri festivals. These seasonal changes in spring and autumn are generally periods when the body of the living being cannot easily adjust and accommodate itself with the changes of nature. People often fall ill during spring and autumn, one of the reasons for this phenomenon being the inability of the physical organism to adapt itself to the conditions of natural seasonal ...