WHY WORSHIP KALI, WHY LEARN PUJA - Worship Today!

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Namaste Everybody,

 

Thanks Vish for your beautiful and inspiring post!

 

I just saw a beautiful shloka which is very timely for us all.

 

We are all learning from the Kali Puja book and on Page 75 in the Adya Stotram it says:

 

Navami Krsna pakshasya suklasyaikadashi para

Daksashya duhita devi dakshayajna vinasini

 

On the NINTH day of the DARK FORTNIGHT, and the 11th day of the bright fortnight,

remember the Goddess who is Daksha's daughter, the Destroyer of Dasksha's sacrifice..

 

Guess what, Today is the Ninth Day of the Dark Fortnight in the month of Ashwin. It is also

Saturday - a day which is special to worship Mother in Her form as Kali!

 

So please if you have a chance, take a moment to remember Her! Tell Her how much we all

love Her and long for Her sweet Divine Eternal Presence in our lives!!! Kali Maa ki Jai!

 

Some fun ways to remember -- Chant Adya stotram (this verse is from that stotram) - it is

on pages 72 to 77 in Kali Puja book

-- Do Kali Puja from Kali Puja book

-- Chant Kali mantra as many times as you like -- Om Hrim Shrim Krim Parameswari

Kalike Swaha

-- Sing to our Divine Mother "Kali, Kali, Kali"

-- Read Swamiji's writings on web and listen to Maa sing to Kali! (www.shreemaa.org)

 

Om Hrim Shrim Krim Parameswari Kalike Swaha!

 

ramya

 

 

 

, "inspectionconnection108"

<inspectionconnection108 wrote:

>

> Namaste

>

> Friday eve at the Devi Mandir several of us had a discussion about

> Kali. We shared how we have experienced the purifying effects of Kali

> in our lives, especially in the intense sattwaic, or positive,

> atmosphere of the Mandir. As we shared our experiences, we saw a

> common theme in our lives, and in all creation. We observed that Kali

> is a principle. Kail is a universal principle, as well as a Goddess.

> The Kali principle exists as every aspect of life which seek to bring

> harmony, balance, and righteousness to the diverse fields of action.

> Kali, or the Mother shakti principle, empowers and propels all

> impulses of goodness in life, and seeks to destroy all forces of

> darkness and dis-harmony.

> For example, every Mother seeks to bring out the best and highest

> aspects and actions from their child. A Mother will do anything to

> help their child, even discipline the child, to help the child learn

> the proper and correct action and behavior, the harmonious and dharmic

> behavior.

> A Mother will fight to destroy any negative impulse which threatens

> the welfare of Her child.

> Indeed, everywhere around us, the "Mother or Kali" principle is at

> work, trying to create harmony our of disharmony.

> Look in your own life, and discover all the ways and means that the

> Mother Kali principle is working on and in you.

> Remember how good you felt when "good" triumphed over "bad", and how

> you felt empowered to try harder to act in a positive, or dharmic way,

> based on that experience.

> Analyze what forces played a part in helping you to overcome a

> negative impuse towards adharmic, or negative behavior, and take the

> high road of positive life-supporting behavior.

> Those positive impulses are the Mother Kali principle.

> Learning the puja, learning how to worship Kali, is a direct means of

> becoming familiar with, and forming a relationship with, the Mother

> Kali principle, the supreme force for goodness in the universe. It is

> a supremely practical way of "getting in tune" with this force of

> goodness.

> If we recognize the Mother Kali principle in our lives, we can become

> inspired to learn and practice the puja. Puja then becomes a

> practical part of our lives, not a burden and task which seems to be

> un-related to our daily sphere of activity.

> It is certainly becoming that for me. I pray that it does for us all.

>

> Jai Maa, Jai Kali

>

> Vishweshwar.

>