This navratri is one among the four navratris celebrated in an yr. It indicates a shift in day & night duration corresponding to the equinox.
This navratri is called as Lalitha Navaratri and the presiding diety is Mata Lalithambika Tripurasundari
It starts with chaitra shudha padyami and ends with Raama Navami & Dashmi. Special parayanas of Rama and Lalitha are performed during these 9 days. Some of the best choices are as guided below
1. Lalitha Sahasranamam ( If you are not a beginner ) Trikala Parayan. I.e Tri kala sandhya read for once in morning , evening and night. 2. Shri Sūktam (If initiated) 3. Rama Raksha Sthotram at Trikala sandhyas 4. Aditya Hrudayam - Mornings 1-7 Times
If people can't do any just doing Durga Saptha Shloki will give immense benefits to the seekers.
People can start reading any auspicious granthas or puranas from first day and continue for a while.there are number of ways one utilize these 9 days for reaching maata.
Naam Smaran
Jaap
Bhajan
Keerti
Should be core if these 9 days..
Maa lalitha and Rama are both said to be parashakti & parabrahma 🙏🏼 These 9 days are absolute bliss for the humans to achieve greater heights on spiritual path. Anybody finding difficult to read can atleast listen to the tracks and gives equally good benefits.
Choose any sthotra and do parayana as per prescribed number.
Post interesting facts & experiences you have about Chaitra Navratri in comment section 🍀
Jai Ambe Maa 🙏🏼
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Source to proper Durga Sapta Shloki 7 shlokas is as follows
The famous aartī, "Jaya Jagadish Hare" is composed by Pandit Shardha Ram Phillauri.
It is said to have been composed as a Universal aartī by the author. The popular imagination phenomenon might have made it limited to Lord Vishnu. 1/n
The aarti made its first raw cinematic appearance in a song from the 1952 movie, Anand Math.
In here, the Govinda damodar Stotram of Sri Bilva Mangala Thakura is adapted with the 'Jai Jagdish Hare' refrain.
The rendition of the written aarti reaches its zenith in a later 1970 movie, Purab Aur Paschim. The protrayed song in the movie, playing background of the aartī, beautifully portrays the devotion towards the Radha-Krishna.
Why camphor is placed on the chin of Venkateshwara Balaji of Tirupati
In the very olden days the Tirupati hill was a very dense forest and was surrounded by great flora and fauna where not much humans used to reside. It was quiet difficult for humans to easily survive.
Shrimad Ramanujulu after installing shankhu Chakra, wished to pray Venkatesha with different kinds of flowers & leaves, which ofcourse was quiet challenging for people to travel & carry from below the hill to the temple on top. Maha vishnu is Almkara Priya(loves Decorations).
Thinking about this at Shri Ranga Matam he announced to his disciples about his wish & asked if any disciple would want to stay at Tirupaty on the hill top, plant a garden & take care of the Alamkara needs.Shree Anantalvar took the opportunity as a boon & expressed his interest.
Relationships are the most complex things one can ever deal with. While there are various paths scientifically which support the psychological set up if a human, spiritually some of the scriptures work in the same way.
Personal equations esp between a couple has it's frictions due to a sudden change from an individual to an added responsible life. Couple both have a responsibility towards relationships materialisticaly Nd spiritually.
Reading
1. Ardhanareeshwara Sthotra 2. Parvati Vallabha Sthotra 3. Vyuhalakshmi Sthotra ( Lakshmi residing in heart of vishnu is Vyooha Lakshmi)
Give great benefits to seekers. Mental blockages get cleansed regarding relationships & right directions are shown by the almighty.
Punishments for abusing deities and the scriptures in
The wretch that abuses Mûla Prakriti, the Vedas, the S’âstras, Purânas, Brahmâ, Visnu, S’iva & the other Devas, Gaurî, Laksmî, Sarasvatî & the other Devîs, goes to the hell named Bhayânaka Narakakunda.
There is no other hell more tormenting than this. The sinners live here for many Kalpas and ultimately become serpents. There is no sin greater than the abuse of the Devî. There is no expiation for it. So one ought never to abuse the Devî.
If one discontinues the allowances given by oneself or other persons to the Devas or Brâhmanas, one goes to Visthâ Kunda and has to eat the faeces there for sixty thousand years and finally to be born in Bhârata as worms in faeces the same number of years.
"Kalau Namasamkeertanam" is what the Kaliyiga dharma of teaching the lotus feet of Parabrahma. The most easiest way to reach Bhagwaan in this Kaliyuga is Nama smarana and samkeertanam. One must not forget this Dharma at all.
When Hiranyakashipu asks prahlada what has he learnt in his journey, prahlada explains about the Navavidhana / Navarasa / Navaratnas of Bhakti. The small child explained the 9 colors of Bhakti to the entire world in short showed the way to reach the depths of Bhakti Paravasyam.
His baby voice says
Sravanam kirtanam vishnoh smaranam padasevanam
Archanam vandanam daasyam
Sakhyam AtmaNivedanam
iti pumsarpita vishnau bhaktischennavalakshana
Kriyeta bhagwati addha tan manye adhitam uttamam - Bhagwatam