To Kumari and all: Beginning Again

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Namaste Kumari and all: So true, so true. I feel the same way. We are

so blessed. Maa and Swami have given us priceless gifts: the mantras,

what they mean, how and when to use them, and their peerless example:

living a life of worship and Divinity.

Thanks so much for sharing your love with us. As each of us learns and

grows, so we all learn and grow. One Soul, One Family, One Heart.

Another example of Maa and Swami's love of their devotees: today, Ma

and Swami visited a devotee's family far from the Mandir, and

performed puja and the Sundar Kanda. About 60 devotees were present.

Imagine Maa and Swami in your living room, singing the Sundar Kanda

for 2.5 hours, uniting hearts and minds through song. So many

blessings, so much joy and love. Unbelievable.

The will do whatever it takes to help us remember our divinity and

turn away from ego based action. They love us and wish us the best and

highest.

 

Jai Ma Jai Swami

 

vishweshwar

 

 

 

, " mjfisher2005 " <mjfisher2005

wrote:

>

> Namaste!

>

> I have just purchased some of the books from the Devi Mandir site and

> they arrived yesterday. I began reading the Chandi. I cannot

> express to you all how delighted I am in having this book and the

> other books on various pujas. This is what I have been looking for

> in vain. Someone to teach me how to worship, how to pay attention to

> the Deities, how to give to Ma Shakti and to Shiva what I feel in my

> heart. The correct form, the Sanskrit mantras in a way that I could

> start to learn them. Swami Satyananda's translation is clear and I

> can feel the exhuberance he pours out with each word. I have never

> heard anybody express these mantras so clearly and with such joy and

> energy. I love the fact that he translates the Deities' names into

> titles. So every time you read the name you are told what this God's

> or Goddess's function is. It makes me see them as parts and aspects

> of the Whole. They are in harmony and are not fighting for

> preemenence. They are each doing their work in the Universe. Ma Kali

> is She Who Removes Darkness, Shiva is The Consciousness of Infinite

> Goodness, Chandi is She Who Tears Apart Thoughts. Oh, I especially

> like the definition of Chandi. These thoughts that come and go, how

> they torment, how they lead one down ugly paths and to dead ends.

> This way of translating the names takes the Devas beyond their

> mythologies into the places set for them as living archetypes.

>

> I had given up that I would ever hear or read these things for

> myself. I offered simple puja to Ma and Shiva and did the best I

> could. Now at least I can read these wonderful scriptures in

> Sanscrit as well as in English. What will come of that, I do not

> know, but I am happy.

>

> Om Jai Kali Ma! Om namah Shivaya!

> Kumari

>