The 189th name of Shri Lalita is Durgama. Who is the Divine Mother Durga?
Who Is Divine Mother Durga?
"She is the great Mystery, the inscrutable Power of the Supreme
Brahman, who holds in Her Hands both bondage and Liberation.
The Grace of the Divine Mother it is, that enables you to walk the
path of Divine Life. Through Her benign blessings you are able to
shine as a sincere spiritual seeker and a man of Dharma. To worship
the Mother with Devotion is to be immediately uplifted by Her
Strength and Power. She works within your inner being as the triple
force of destruction, evolution and illumination. Destroying the
impure and vicious aspects of one's lower nature, the unworthy,
base, and bestial in the individual personality, and helping evolve
the human nature into sublime heights of goodness, nobility and the
purity of beauteous virtue. She illumines the Jiva with supreme
divine wisdom. Thus the Divine Mother is the very life and support
of the aspirant's spiritual Sadhana. She makes your quest fruitful
with Attainment. The Divine Mother grants Kaivalya Moksha or eternal
release and immortality.
To worship and to adore the Blessed Mother is to welcome Her Divine
Help in working out your highest good and everlasting welfare. When
you thus seek Her divine aid, Her compassionate response is
immediate. She sets to redeem you in Her own way. She sends
experiences both pleasant and painful, through trials and
difficulties. She moulds and strengthens you, through sorrow and
suffering, She refines and purifies your nature. She enriches and
blesses you with spiritual experience and raises you to exalted
heights. She makes use of your very life and its experiences to make
you perfect and bestow upon you divine Peace and Joy and the
Illimitable Splendour of Self-realization. Therefore, O Beloved
Seeker! learn to accept the joys and sorrows, the temptations and
the trials of your life with wisdom and understanding. Seek to
recognise their hidden meaning and purpose for your own evolution
and supreme good. Find Her Divine Hand behind all occurrences and
see the Mother's Will working through them. Then will you behold
your entire life as the expression of the Mother's immeasurable Love
for you."
Swami Chidananda 1st. November 1963
"Mother's grace is boundless. Her mercy is illimitable. Her
knowledge is infinite. Her power is immeasurable. Her glory is
ineffable. Her splendour is indescribable. She gives you Bhukti
(material prosperity) and Mukti (spiritual liberation) also.
Approach Her with an open heart. Lay bare your heart to Her with
frankness and humility. Be as simple as a child. Kill ruthlessly
egoism, cunningness, selfishness and crookedness. Make total,
unreserved, ungrudging surrender to Her. Sing Her praise. Repeat Her
name. Worship Her with faith and unflinching devotion. Do special
Puja on Navaratri days. Navaratri or Dussera is the most suitable
occasion for doing intense Sadhana. These nine days are very sacred
to Devi. Plunge yourself in Her worship. ...
May Durga give the milk of divine wisdom to Her children and lift
them to the magnificent heights of divine splendour and glory, the
imperishable state of Kaivalya and eternal Sunshine!"
Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj
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