Yesterday Mother came to us as Goddess Lalitha and revealed that She is enthroned in the region of our third eye. She told us that we should energise this energy vortice with Her kumkum everyday if we want to network with Her all the time If we do this, She will constantly give us prompts from within and protect us from all forms of negativity. She will also ask Anjaneya to give us Sanjeevini to set right all our imbalances. She revealed how we should participate in Her abhisheka and granted us the great blessing of tuning in to the abhisheka being performed by the Sages at Naimisharanya. As our Gotra Rishi [Sage of our spiritual clan] performed Mother’s abhisheka, we visualised Her radiant form and made resolutions to rejuvenate all parts of our body and this was magnanimously granted by the Divine Mother. We also learnt what sankalpas or resolutions we should make when the abhisheka is performed with milk, curds, honey and bananas and when we offer incense and take arati. Mother told us to keep a piece of bright red cloth with us always as Her prasada from which all kinds of shaktis would flow to us. She also asked us to chant Her holy mantra — ‘Om Dhanadhanya Vardhini Namaha.’
Today, let us worship goddess Saraswati who is also known as Sharada, As Sharada, She gave the knowledge of the Vedas to the Sages in the Kali Yuga. Since the mahapralaya or great deluge covers the earth with water at the end of each epoch or yuga, goddess Saraswathi places the Vedas, Shastras and Upanishads before us once again when the new epoch begins. When the yuga comes to an end, the Vedas, Shastras, Upanishads and the 33,000 crore forms of Divinity including the Divine Mother become unmanifest.
They are recreated when the new epoch begins. Only Lord Krishna, at the behest of the Divine Mother, remains in His manifest form. As an innocent infant,
He floats on a pipal leaf in the swirling waters, sucking His toe. We think of mahapralaya as a flood. It is not a mere flood — it is a deluge of an unimaginable scale where the whole earth is covered with water that is 300-feet above ground level everywhere.
We do not know where this water comes from. Another way of understanding the mahapralaya is that everything shrinks.
The earth becomes the size of a marble, so that just one spoon of water is enough to completely engulf it.
Before we continue with this, today how have most of us worshipped goddess Saraswathi, the bestower of knowledge Did you keep books in the puja room and worship them? This is one custom followed during the festival of Navaratri that falls under the bracket of superstition. True Jnana or awareness is to open these divine scriptures and read them today. What is the use of keeping them in the puja room? Does God need knowledge or do we? Since all knowledge comes from God, it is we who need it. So, from next year, sit down and read them instead of keeping them in your puja room.
Why should we read the scriptures and epics? We read them because they reflect our own life. Some phases of our life resemble the Mahabharata and other phases are comparable to the Ramayana. Are we like Lord Rama and Lord Krishna, or like the demons Ravana and Dantavakra? Are we like the goddesses Sita, Radha, Rukmini or the jealous queen Kaikeyi?
To discover this, we have to get in touch with the epics. We must remember that our life is also an epic — a struggle. How many wars we wage everyday — we battle with our own mind and intellect.
We fight to get what we want from the transactional world. We worship God and scold Him when we don’t get what we want. We only don’t fight with spirituality or our own soul because we don’t know enough about them.
Extract from The book of direct truths, subtle truths and the mystical truths of Devi Mahatmyam’by Shri Shri Nimishananda