Ten Day Navaratri and 50 Priest Eclipse Yagyas ($75)
April 8th to 17th
We recently completed our 10 Day Shiva yagyas culminating on Shivaratri. Now we shift our focus to honor the 10 forms of the Divine Mother (Dasa Mahavidya) during the Spring Navaratri festival.
This year is unique because we begin with a total solar eclipse on April 8th. Traditionally eclipses are times when the recitation of mantras has significantly greater power. In order to take full advantage of this, we are performing a 50 priest Chandi Yagya during the April 8th eclipse.
We begin the Navaratri Yagyas with a full day for Ganesha in order to remove obstacles to our progress towards enlightenment and to generate material success. The following nine days focus on the different forms of the Divine Mother in order to maximize the comfort and success that we enjoy in daily life.
Our Shiva yagyas have created a spiritual space in which these Maha Vidya yagyas will fill with the blessings of the goddesses. This starts our year in a state of fullness and balance.
The ten forms have various characteristics:
Raja Matangi - the tantric form of Saraswati
Bhuvaneshwari - the World Mother
Bagalamuki - the power of Mars and protection from enemies
Tripurasundari - the most beautiful form of the goddess
Tara - another form of Saraswati
Kamala - the tantric form of Lakshmi
Kali - the power of the goddess to create transformation
Chinnamasta - self sacrificing form of the divine mother
Dhumavati - The older form of the divine mother
Bhairavi - the warrior goddess
Each morning our priests will perform our daily Rudra Abishekam followed by a traditional goddess yagya which includes the vedic fire ritual (havan) from 8 AM to 1 PM. In the evening, they perform 2 hours of pujas where the 700 verses in praise of Durga are recited. This is known as the Durga Saptashati or Chandi Path. The text is recited followed by the 1008 names (Sahasranam) of Lalitha; the most beautiful form of the goddess.
These rituals generate shakti (power) which we use in our lives to create the sorts of life experiences that we desire; spiritual, material, or a combination of both. Some people experience a feeling of lightness, some experience inner happiness, many experience more spiritual contentment with their lives and greater success or increased income. The blessings of the goddesses bring us closer to whatever we most want our lives to be.
The final day, Vijaya Dashami, will feature special pujas for Saraswati who is honored on the day of victory, symbolic of the victory of light over darkness and joy over suffering. These yagyas are profoundly purifying and eliminate old stresses and bad karmas. As a result life is lived with greater freedom, happiness and satisfaction.
Participants in these yagya programs report that they enjoy a sense of protection from the obstacles and usual ups and downs of daily life. Obstacles seem to be reduced and overall prosperity, abundance and enjoyment of life in general, and specifically family life is improved
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Ten Day Navaratri and 50 Priest Eclipse Yagyas ($75)
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