Navaratri -- Special Prayers

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, "M. S. Ravisankar" <ravi@a...> wrote:

Instead one can think of creating one's own version of

> nAmAvaLi such as

> 1) O Divine mother, you are the source and subratum of this

universe. To

> you I say namo namaH. For all is yours and not mine (na mama)

> 2) O Divine Mother, you are my mother, father and eternal

friend. To you

> my namaskarams.

> 3) O Divine Mother, you are the material and the efficient

casuse of this

> universe. To you my namaskarams.

> 4) O Divine Mother, you create, sustain, and destroy this

universe. To you

> my namaskArams

> 5) O Divine Mother, your are my guru and guide. Without your

guidance, I

> am blind and lost. To you my love and namaskarams.

> ...

>

> One can build a sahasranama like this. Basically, it can be from

other

> sahasranama-s but with our understanding and in the words and

language we

> understand. So you can set a goal to write atleast 5 lines of

your own

> prayer to ambaa, each day.

 

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Namaste

Ravishankarji has made a wonderful suggestion. But I am slightly

modifying it so that we can make it a project for this Navaratri all

of us together. Ravi has written the first five names from his own

feelings for ambaal. Why not each one of us contribute five more,

following the same pattern. Here are my five. I am numbering them

six to ten. I follow Ravi's style.

 

6. O Divine Mother, You are the One who manifests as this visible

universe. To you my Love and Namaskarams.

7. O Divine Mother, You appear in every woman that I see. To You my

sAshhTAnga praNAms.

8. O Divine Mother, You appeared as Sita in Treta yuga and suffered

untold miseries. To You my Namaskarams.

9. O Divine Mother, You have several names; but Mother is my

favourite name for you. To You my Namaskarams.

10. O Divine Mother, You appear as Evil to Evil-doers. To You my

Gratitude and Namaskarams.

 

This way, my dear friends, each one of us can go on and on. In

addition to contributing five names every day as our own

composition, we can each one of us contribute and make the total

number of names go to 1000, by the end of Navaratri. Would members

rise to the occasion?

 

My praNAms to Ravi for initiating this.

 

praNAms to all devotees of Mother Goddess

profvk

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, "V. Krishnamurthy" <profvk>

wrote:

> , "M. S. Ravisankar" <ravi@a...>

wrote:

> Instead one can think of creating one's own version of

> > nAmAvaLi such as

> > 1) O Divine mother, you are the source and subratum of this

> universe. To

> > you I say namo namaH. For all is yours and not mine (na mama)

> > 2) O Divine Mother, you are my mother, father and eternal

> friend. To you

> > my namaskarams.

> > 3) O Divine Mother, you are the material and the efficient

> casuse of this

> > universe. To you my namaskarams.

> > 4) O Divine Mother, you create, sustain, and destroy this

> universe. To you

> > my namaskArams

> > 5) O Divine Mother, your are my guru and guide. Without your

> guidance, I

> > am blind and lost. To you my love and namaskarams.

> 6. O Divine Mother, You are the One who manifests as this visible

> universe. To you my Love and Namaskarams.

> 7. O Divine Mother, You appear in every woman that I see. To You my

> sAshhTAnga praNAms.

> 8. O Divine Mother, You appeared as Sita in Treta yuga and suffered

> untold miseries. To You my Namaskarams.

> 9. O Divine Mother, You have several names; but Mother is my

> favourite name for you. To You my Namaskarams.

> 10. O Divine Mother, You appear as Evil to Evil-doers. To You my

> Gratitude and Namaskarams.

 

11. O Divine Mother, The creator of all this universe - You ARE my

real "Mother". To you my love and Namaskarani! - Mother, Could you

please enlighten me with our family story? - Am I asking too much?

 

12. O Divine Mother, the eternal bliss for whole world - you ARE

my "Bliss". To you my praNAmani!

 

13. O Divine Mother, Who is 'sat' - the ONLY ABSOLUTE "truth" in the

whole universe ,- I "beseech" you alone, nothing/no one else.To you

my sa+aSTAnga praNAmani!

 

14. O Divine Mother, What kind of a shilpi you are? You create my

body with five elements 'from you' and 'of you', make it

breathe,bathe and live in this universe(which is a different form of

you), and put me(Rishis tell 'self' is also a form of yourself) in

this body one day, and you take me out of this body the other day -

and you recycle not just mybody thisway, all worlds too; as easily as

one can blink own eyes.

Thus O creator, destructor, sarva vyapi, sarva+AdhAra, sarvamaya all-

in-one 'being' - I bow to you forever.

 

15. O Divine Mother, When people are 'selfish' then they feel urge

to 'get over' these births and deaths by taking refuge at your feet,

AND you ONLY relieve them from Births and Deaths when they come over

their 'self' awareness.In this mutual contradiction - please direct

my mind to concentrate only on the glow and sanctity of your feet and

thoughts about you.O the source of knowledge and the initiator of

knowledge with 'Guru' affection and love, 'I' owe you 'my'(?)

everything. - I should not be that selfish, everything belongs to you

only. not mine, I am taking of 'my'.Pranamams to you. How can I take

off 'I' from the above sentence?

 

Note: You can consider these as 11 to 15 or discard as you like.

May Mother bless us all.