Fwd: Navaratri Celebrations 2025
Sadhu Rangarajan
From: Sadhu Rangarajan <sadhu.ra...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Subject: Navaratri Celebrations 2025
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NAVARATRI CELEBRATIONS IN SRI BHARATAMATA MANDIR
Navaratri will be celebrated in Sri Bharatamata Mandir, Srinivasanagar, Kithaganur Main Road, Krishnarajapuram, Bangalore 560 036, with special homa, abhisheka, pooja and golu (doll exhibition) from Monday, September 22, 2025, to Vijayadashami on Thursday, October 2, 2025. Abhisheka and alankara of the Divine Mother as Maha Durga, Maha Lakshmi and Maha Sarasawati will take place in the mornings from 7-00 AM to 10-00 AM, on Monday, September 22, 2025, Thursday, October 25, 2025, and Sunday, October 28, 2025, respectively. Saraswati Pooja and Vijayadashami will be celebrated on Wednesday, October 1,2025 and Thursday, October 2, 2025 respectively.
--Sadhu Prof. V. Rangarajan, Founder & Trustee, Sri Bharatamata Gurukula Ashram, Kithaganur, Krishnarajapuram, Bangalore 560 036. [Cell: 94482 75935; E-mail: sadhu.ra...@gmail.com; website: sribharatamatamandir.org]
SIGNIFICANCE OF NAVARATRI
SADHU PROF. V. RANGARAJAN
According to science, the entire world of creation is nothing but manifestation of energy. Matter arises out of Spirit or Force. E=mc2. There are three types of forces or causes always active in all creation. First is the material cause. Without mud, a potter cannot make a pot. Inert Matter is Tamasic Energy. Without the vitality or work of the potter, the pot will not come into existence. That vitality of the potter is Efficient Cause or Rajasic Energy. Without the know-how of making a pot, the potter could not make a pot. That Intelligent Cause is Satvik Energy. These three are symbolized in Maha Kali, Maha Lakshmi and Maha Saraswati. These three are not independent forces, but evolutes of the Uncaused Cause, the Consciousness Force who is symbolized as Maha Shakti or Adi Shakti.
We human beings alone are endowed with Reason which enables us to probe into the mystery of our existence and find the Truth. Our Tamasic physical existence is activated by the Pancha Jnanendrias (five senses of knowledge—eyes, ears, tongue, nose and skin providing us experiences of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch) and Pancha Karmendriyas (five organs of action—hands, feet, speech, excretory organs and generative organs). In this realm, we live an animal life of eating, drinking, sleeping, procreating, aging and dying. Our Rajasic emotional and intellectual life is activated by our mind and intellect, which are the seats of emotion and knowledge respectively. There is a higher realm where Satvik intuitive or spiritual existence prevails. These three are transcended to merge our Self in the Absolute, Universal and Eternal Consciousness Force from which we all come. During the Navaratri, we worship Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati, each of them for three nights, consecutively, By worshipping Kali we kill the animal instincts in us, by worshipping Lakshmi we overcome our emotional attachments and intellectual moorings in the mundane and material life and by worshipping Saraswati, we rise in the realm of wisdom and ultimately gain the intuitive realization of the Truth or Consciousness Force, which is symbolized by Vijaya Dasami, the tenth day of ultimate victory. Our Hindu Shastras say that whenever you visit a pilgrim centre, you have to stay there for three days and three nights so that you could derive the full benefit of staying there. To transcend the three realms of existence, we symbolically worship the three deities for three days each.
Just as in a microcosmic atom there is a nucleus which is the centre of energy, in the macrocosmic world, the nucleus is Bharatavarsha or Mother India and, therefore, saints and sages from the ancient Rishis to Mahayogi Sri Aurobindo of the modern age, all men of wisdom adored Bharatamata as Maha Shakti. We celebrate Navaratri in our Sri Bharatamata Mandir to invoke Her blessings on all beings for their gradual evolution from the lower realms to the highest. Vande Mataram!