Devi

Dreimal drei.

Also drei Formen von Devi, jede drei Nächte lang.

Durga oder Parvati und Durga, all das.

Saraswati und Lakshmi.

Diese drei Devis stehen für drei grundlegende Eigenschaften: Macht, Wissen und Reichtum.

Diese drei, Macht, Wissen und Reichtum, sind allesamt große Möglichkeiten und sie sind ebenso starke Gifte.

Die meisten Leute nutzen sie in ihrem Leben wie Gift.

Other days it's supposed to be fasting .

Apart from that, Navratri or the nine nights are dedicated to the nine forms of Devi – three into three.

So, three forms of Devi, each one three nights – Durga or Parvati and Durga, all that, Saraswati and Lakshmi.

These three Devi's represent three fundamental qualities – power, knowledge and wealth.

These three – power, knowledge and wealth – all of them are great possibilities and they're also great poisons.

Most people use them as poison in their life.

Just like we talked about, I think a few meetings ago, we talked about what some of the meanings behind Vinayaka Chaturthi might be.

even for Navratri, I think in some ways, this is a way to give us nine days of space to reflect on that divine feminine energy, to reflect on the stories behind the different forms of Devi.

And it's a reminder, it's a space and time reminder to say, this is like, it's kind of like recommending a book to your friend, right? This is like the joint book club that we're all going to do for these nine days, right? And if we can start to think about it in that way, then maybe it starts to have a lot of meaning also because it's telling our mind something.

It's telling ourselves, you can do whatever you want for the rest of the 359 days.

Do we want to focus on that super laukika aspect of the karmas? Or do we want to, again, use this as an opportunity for space-time? And the reality is that, you know, yes, it is said that the amavase of this month is the beginning of Navaratri.

And there probably is potentially some astrological significance to that.

But the reality is that it probably helps you at any point in the year to take nine days to think about the three gunasas, the three forms of Devi, or to think about the importance of the feminine spirit in the overall survival of the bigger person.

It doesn't matter.

Then religion is nothing but dry suicidal advice.

I love when, um, Devi you showed me that movie and the guy is suicidal, but like you don't know that except there's a sc- like there's a scene where there's like a stack of books, and you're supposed to understand from the stack of books that this man is lost and seeking, and one of the books was on Eastern meditation.

[chuckles] Like, yeah, you guys tried your Xanax, but you realize that like we have a better thing.

It's called meditation.

He understands that this space is as esoteric as his space, so he's okay with the transference of esoteric knowledge, which in any other context you would have to spend years in that order to access.

I mean, you have to remember how generous he was yesterday with what he shared.

Um, but what was beautiful is he was reading, um, at random from like random selections here and there, and Devi would give a poem, and then I would like sing something.

I would play guitar, drum, and sing.

Seeing them, Ambika becomes angry, and out of that anger, there issues forth a terrible form known as Kali, who fought with the demon.

There are lots of these names that ap- appear throughout the detail, throughout that text that might seem as if there are many such Devis, but all of these are just manifestations of this one Divine Mother.

Finally, Kali cuts off the heads of Chanda and Munda, and therefore, the Devi becomes known as Chamunda.

There is a big, uh, temple of Chamunda in, in Mysore.

All other topics are simply miserable.

Now Babaji asked, why is Shri Raghunatha's calling a cowherd girl, some goddess, Devi, in this verse.

Devi means most effulgent or most beautiful.

But this beauty is made of the pinnacle of divine love.

Otherwise, it cannot make Prasikashikara, Krishna, the king of relishers, happy.

This was experienced in a transcendental vision.

Devi means worshipable.

By whom is she worshipable? Or she is the abode of Krishna's pastimes of worship? The verbal root div has several meanings.

So when we're practicing meditation or when we're doing sadhana in the world, when we're practicing the renunciation through the descent, which we'll get into later, this is when the samskaras start to shed, essentially.

And from the Vedantic point of view, You are in ignorance of, you know, to the truth of your nature as Devi slash the self, because these samskaras are creating your Maya, as Ruby said before, and they are obscuring that knowledge.

But when we go on this journey, whether that's with Kundalini Shakti, usually it's with Kundalini Shakti.

When we go on that journey, these samskaras start to dissolve and we have more and more moments where we remember who we actually are.

And that enables you to remember more often who you actually are and not get trapped in in maya you remember that you are the mother at at our core each of us yes the mother yes that is the power of the darkness of the mother only the mother the shakti of the mother is able to do that so even when we look at the great yogans of india or even the deities we've read stories about their enlightenment and their journey they had surrendered to Shakti.

I'm not going to get into it too much in this episode.

One thread I've been following is that even Lord Vishnu was a great devotee of the Devi.

In those 10 avatars, he spent lifetimes in worshipping the mother and even in embodying her.

シッダデーハの状態ではこちらの節なのです。

In my svarupa approach my Ishta Devi Swamini.

スワルーパでは私たちのイシュタデーヴィー・スワミーニーにアプローチをするのです。

Manjari may ask something, but Kinkari know Radhika's heart.

He she does not need to ask, but because she knew Radhika's feeling.