Hi readers, First of all, Shubh Navratri to all of you. So, this is the navratri special blog. It will be a bit inclined towards spirituality but I hope that you will understand and like the concept.
Ma Durga is one of the oldest, most powerful and widely worshipped of the great Hindu mother goddesses, claiming the very name of Jagadamba, the "Mother of the Universe".She has the power to create, sustain and dissolve the entire universe, to put the soul under the bondage of maya or release it into the Supreme Brahman beyond all limitations.
Maa Durga arises
from Agni, the Vedic deity of fire and light as a protective force, as is
mentioned in the ancient Vedic Durga Sukta. All the Devatas arise through Agni,
the flame of immortal consciousness within us that brings our spiritual
potentials into manifestation.
Durga
literally refers to difficulty. She takes us across all difficulties like a
ship across the sea, the great Vedic metaphor for going beyond all the sorrow
of our Samsaric or worldly existence. Durga Devi delivers us from darkness to
light, from non-being to being, from death to immortality.
Ma Durga is the protective form of Shakti, burning up all ignorance, as
her fiery nature energises our highest motivation. Her radiant wisdom dispells
the darkness within us, removing inertia, turbulence and attachment. She
represents the golden-red flame in the spiritual heart, where we learn to
concentrate deeply in order to experience enduring meditative bliss.
Durga as
Agni, the Vedic deity of speech, is the power of the divine word, the mantric
vibration of cosmic intelligence that is our inner guide and guru. Agni is
invoked as the first of the divine powers that manifest the divine light within
us. Unless we have awakened that divine flame, will and awareness, our
spiritual practices may not take us beyond the illusions of our own minds.
We must honour her power and her rule over the entire universe. She does not function for our personal benefit or to fulfil our desires.
It is the
greatness of India that Ma Durga represents its inner reality and guiding
spiritual force. This same Durga becomes the Yoga Shakti that arises like a
flame within the mind, expanding and uplifting our awareness to the universal
self.
(Photos by : Kamya)
{ I have added photos of diyas or flame to represent the "SHAKTI" or the divine energy }
May that supreme Durga Shakti arise within all! May we have the receptivity to allow it to both purify our faults and energise our highest aspirations! May Maa Durga bless you! 😇Jai Maa Durga!! 🙏
