Chandi Chapter 7 Question

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In Verse 24 the Remover of Darkness gives the heads of Passion and

Anger to She Who Tears Apart Thought and says, "Now in the war of

sacrifice, you yourself will kill Self-Conceit and Self-

Deprecation." I would appreciate comments on the term "war of

sacrifice." Does that term refer to the battle to kill thoughts? I

wonder at the use of the word sacrifice. Any ideas out there?

 

Thanks-Karen and Mike

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karen and mike

 

my feeling is this: although we are seeing this in the chandi path

as a dualistic battle [which it is] it is also a conscious sacrifice

within unity on our part to give up these things [indulgence in

emotional reactions, etc.] therefore sacrifice is another way of

looking at the same thing, in defeating [or giving up] passion and

danger.

 

steve

 

 

, "Karen and Mike"

<karenborak@e...> wrote:

> In Verse 24 the Remover of Darkness gives the heads of Passion and

> Anger to She Who Tears Apart Thought and says, "Now in the war of

> sacrifice, you yourself will kill Self-Conceit and Self-

> Deprecation." I would appreciate comments on the term "war of

> sacrifice." Does that term refer to the battle to kill thoughts?

I

> wonder at the use of the word sacrifice. Any ideas out there?

>

> Thanks-Karen and Mike

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Dear Karen and Mike,

This is what I gleaned from Swamiji's online teachings available at

http://www.shreemaa.org/classes.htm

 

Swamiji says - the whole Chandi is a war of sacrifice - yudh yajna ,

where we are surrendering all of duality and uniting with Her.Its a

battle to win the light. It a dharma yudh- a battle to win the

dharma. It is not a battle that happened in history or "up there".

 

yuj - means to unite. Yajna - sacrifice or to give up something for

others. In chapter 4 of the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says "Some people

sacrifice their inflowing to their outflowing breaths. Some people

sacrifice their knowledge , some people sacrifice their karma , or

wisdom to unite with God and in the process surrendering all of our

selfishness.

 

The yajna is surrendering all our selfishness. Our sacrifice is the

surrender of all the defects of our character.

 

So here is the yudh yajna where we are battling with our egos to

surrender all our selfishness. We send out all the pure vibrations

and pure desires as our army to deflect all the selfish thoughts and

impure thoughts that come in our way.

 

Thank you for raising this question. Helped me introspect more.

 

Jai Maa

Latha

 

 

, "Karen and Mike"

<karenborak@e...> wrote:

> In Verse 24 the Remover of Darkness gives the heads of Passion and

> Anger to She Who Tears Apart Thought and says, "Now in the war of

> sacrifice, you yourself will kill Self-Conceit and Self-

> Deprecation." I would appreciate comments on the term "war of

> sacrifice." Does that term refer to the battle to kill thoughts?

I

> wonder at the use of the word sacrifice. Any ideas out there?

>

> Thanks-Karen and Mike