The Indian culture is very uniquely celebrated by the Indians with all the joy and engagement. There are many festivals that they celebrate every year with the different-different cultures across India. South-India has different festivals with a difference in culture also with the North-India with different cultures and different cultures as well. But all festivals have owned their importance whether it is north or south. So, there is a festival in north-India called 'Navratri'. This festival, we will take a source to understand the cultures and the engagement with the crowd that Indians did every year. And this festival has very important according to them, also many different cultured people across the world visited India for enjoying the festival. So, let's try to understand all the events with the help of a specific festival that is 'Navratri'.
Durga, Laxmi, and Saraswati are used as symbols of these three dimensions of the feminine. Tamas, Rajas, and Sattva, the three terms exists are the main representation of Durga, Laxmi, and Saraswati. Tamas literally means inertia. Rajas mean activity, passion. Sattva, in a way, is breaking boundaries, dissolution, melting, and merging. The Earth, The Sun, and The Moon are amongst the three celestial objects to which the very making of our bodies are very deeply connected. Mother Earth is considered tamas. The sun is rajas, and the Moon is sattva. Those who aspire for power for immortality for the strength they will worship those forms of the feminine which are referred to as tamas, like the Kali or Mother Earth.
The people who aim to get wealth, passion for life, and various other gifts that the material world has to offer, they naturally aspire towards in form of the feminine which is referred to as the Laxmi or the sun. Those who aspire for knowledge, knowing, transcendence, the immortality of not the body but transcending the limitations of the mortal body, they will aspire for that the aspect of the feminine which is referred to as the sattva, or Saraswati is the representative of that or the moon. Saraswati is arranged in this way because it’s after all from the earth that we arise, and we could live an active life which is rajas – the second nature of the Devi. The third one may come your way or may not. If you have to bring her down into you, you have to strive; otherwise, she will not get down to you. Kali is on the ground. Laxmi is sitting on a flower, Saraswati is riding a peacock. So, these three days are the days of the feminine, for those of you who are not aware of this.
The Linga Bhairavi has been consecrated with three basic chakras. This man (Referring to Dhyanalinga) has all the seven; she has only three chakras to represent three of these three dimensions of tamas, rajas, and sattva. Tamas is the nature of the earth. And she is the one who gives birth. The whole... the gestation period that we spend in the womb, our womb time is tamas, it’s like a state which is almost like hibernation, but it’s growing. So tamas is the nature of the earth of your birth; the moment you come out, then you start an activity – rajas begin. If you are aware enough or fortunate enough, sattva will touch you, otherwise the color of rajas – it’s good as long as the going is good. Rajas are going to be super bad if the going gets bad. So, these nine days, above all, to approach every aspect of life in a celebratory way – this is most important. You learn to be non-serious about life but absolutely involved if you approach everything in a celebratory way.
If human beings think something is important, then they will become dead serious about it, this is the problem with most of the human beings. If they think it is not so important then they will leave work and relax with it. Whereas it shouldn't be done, we should do the work before time so we will prepare for the involvement anytime when it's needed. That’s the reason most profound aspects of life are approached in a celebratory way so that you don’t miss the point. If you’re serious if one is serious means the next step, in the Tamil language, or even in English probably. He is in a very serious condition; means the next step you know where. And a lot of people are in serious condition. There is only one thing that's going to happen to them which is of any significance, rest will bypass them, because anything that they think is not serious they are unable to show involvement and dedication towards that, that's the whole problem. There is any number of lily ponds around the ashram. Compared to any other flower, lily blooms fastest. Within about an hour’s time, from an uninteresting bud, it becomes a spectacular flower.
We got more important things to do. Because if we have time we will go into our room and open the computer and watch a video, why will I sit and watch a goddamn flower blooming? That is the reason why you don’t flower for a long time because you do not know how to pay attention to the smallest detail of your life. If you do not know how to pay attention to this Breath what is there to watch? Then you’re missing the whole point. So, it is because of this that the spiritual process seems to be sitting up there in the sky. It is not sitting up there in the sky, it is very earthy. It is something that every human being can do, but almost never ever do. Fantastic humanity we have, because we are a marketing guy; you are not a biologist! No, You are not You are also marketing?
So, if you want to market something, first of all, you have to have a good product. If you do not focus on producing a good product and you just focus on marketing, that's called bullshit. So that’s also called gossip. That is also called ignorance. And the reason why enlightenment seems to be such a rare thing is not that it’s hidden somewhere, it’s not because you have to move this mountain to get it, it is just that because you thought the blossoming of the lily flower is not important, that's the reason. It is this still earth which seems to be ‘manned’, in America, it’s ‘dirt’, it is that dirt which flowers as a spectacular flower. It is that dirt that has become this. So, if you think that's dirt, you’re a dirtbag. Now you are sitting rooted to the earth – she is sitting on a mattress. It’s a flying carpet, that's why she’s here. You are sitting on the earth; you must learn to simply be one with her. You are anyway a part of her. Only when she wishes she throws you out; when she wishes she sucks you back. So, what was absolute inertia now has become a dynamic raja. This may transcend or may again go back to the same thing. Durga-Lakshmi, Durga-Lakshmi; Saraswati never happened, that means you are in the cycle, you are in the trap of life and death; transcendence is yet to come. So, these two will anyway happen.
What is in a state of inertia will get into a state of rajas and activity and again fall back and become inertia for a certain period of time and again get back into activity. This is happening to you as an individual, this is happening to the planet, this is happening to the galaxy, this is happening to the whole cosmos – it goes into a state of inertia and then becomes dynamic and again goes into a state of inertia, but the important thing is this one has the capability to break the cycle and transcend. So, these three dimensions of the Devi are enshrined in the form of Bhairavi or Linga Bhairavi. So, these three days you must be able to draw these three dimensions of existence and sustenance for yourself because you need all these three.
The first two are needed for your survival and well-being. The third is an aspiration to go beyond. So, Navaratri starts off with this, not only fabulous symbolism, it is also energy-wise true. Every month – it is not just once in a year – every month after Amavasya, the first three days are like this. The Amavasya is a state of inertia where the 5 elements are going through a certain integration within themselves. The next day is in a placid, inertia state, then it gets active, then there is room for transcendence, the moon begins to appear. This is why the third day’s moon is held as very important. The third day’s moon is held as very important because the possibility of transcendence has opened up. What was in a state of inertia and then in a state of activity and entanglement, now has opened a possibility of transcendence. This is… Every month it is happening. This particular month is a little more pronounced because this Amavasya was more pronounced than the rest of the Amavasya during the year. Of all the twelve or sometimes thirteen Amavasyas, this particular one is the strongest one. So Durga Lakshmi Durga-Lakshmi-Saraswati - a beautiful name.
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