Gurudev Swami Vishwananda Navaratri This Year -- Video and Information

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Excerpt of Sri Swami Vishwanandas reading about the fifth form of Divine mother of Navaratri called Skanda Mata and an interpretation of his.

During Navaratri, one invokes the energy aspect of God in the form of the universal mother, referred to as "Durga" which literally means the remover of miseries of life. She is also referred to as "Devi" (goddess) or "Shakti" (energy or power). It is this energy, which helps God to proceed with the work of creation, preservation and destruction. The Divine Mother goes by the name Kali, Durga, Lakshmi, Saraswati, Mother Mary and many other names.

Why Worship the Mother Goddess?: The mother is the creative aspect of the absolute. The creative life energy is a form of the Divine Mother, who is the mother of all, and all of us are her children. "Why mother; why not father?" God's glory, his cosmic energy, his greatness and supremacy can best be depicted as the motherhood aspect of God. Just as a child finds all these qualities in his or her mother, similarly, many of us look upon God as mother.

For the full transcription of Swami Vishwanandas talk and for a DVD Navaratri 2009 set (available end of 2009):
Visit www.bhaktimarga.org. for more information
For Navaratri pictures visit our albums on Flickr.com:
(Click on the slideshow link up on the right hand side to view slideshow)
Gallery link to the first three days of Navaratri: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bhaktima...

Excerpt of Sri Swami Vishwanandas reading about the fifth form of Divine mother of Navaratri called Skanda Mata and an interpretation of his.During Navaratri, one invokes the energy aspect of God in the form of the universal mother, referred to as "Durga" which literally means the remover of miseries of life. She is also referred to as "Devi" (goddess) or "Shakti" (energy or power). It is this energy, which helps God to proceed with the work of creation, preservation and destruction. The Divine Mother goes by the name Kali, Durga, Lakshmi, Saraswati, Mother Mary and many other names.Why Worship the Mother Goddess?: The mother is the creative aspect of the absolute. The creative life energy is a form of the Divine Mother, who is the mother of all, and all of us are her children.

"Why mother; why not father?" God's glory, his cosmic energy, his greatness and supremacy can best be depicted as the motherhood aspect of God. Just as a child finds all these qualities in his or her mother, similarly, many of us look upon God as mother.

For the full transcription of Swami Vishwananda's talk and for a DVD Navaratri 2009 set (available end of 2009) visit http://www.bhaktimarga.org/. For Navaratri pictures visit our albums on Flickr.com: (click on the slideshow link up on the right hand side to view slideshow) Gallery link to the first three days of Navaratri: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bhaktima...