To Ramya about Winter Navarathri - Let's worship Her! Jai MAA!

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Dear Ramya,

 

Thank you for such a caring and thorough response to my question about

Navarathri. Even though I have been with the digest for some time, I

still have trouble remembering when things are going to happen. I

wonder if someone ~ Nanda?, Parvati? ~ can give us a few days heads

up for the other three Navarathris this year. I looked at the 2006

calendar in the files section, but I didn't see mention of specific

festival dates. If I've missed something, please let me know.

 

All of your ideas are wonderful. I almost always say the Durga mantra

at least once a day, but I will make a sankalpa to make sure I do it

everyday until the end of Navaratri. And I will recite the 32 Names

of Durga each day. I don't want to try to do much since I'm also

working to do the Mother Earth Sankalpa, but in a sense, for these

days of Navarathri, they kind of overlap. Part of my Navaratri

sankalpa will be that I will dedicate my recitations to the welfare

of Mother Earth, a living manifestation of Devi.

 

In the last digest, I said I was going to wait until next week to

begin to say the correct mantra for each planet on the right day, but

last night I felt an undeniable urge to get started right away, so I

chanted the Brihaspati mantra, 1 mala, and the hand pictures really

helped. Most of you know of my illness and so I start off with baby

steps. But chanting this mantra gave me a wonderful feeling all over

and around my body. There is truly something Cosmic about this Cosmic

Sankalpa. : )

 

I have a couple of questions related to the Mother Earth Sankalpa that

I want to ask Swamaji, but I will put that in a separate email.

 

And blessings to you, Raj to complete your own Navarathri sankalpa ~ Linda