
Photo of Devi Mandir residents
(taken at the Devi Mandir in November 2007)
Temple of Divine Mother

Photo of Devi Mandir residents
(taken at the Devi Mandir in November 2007)
~~OM~~
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January 1 – January 7
– from Siva Puja and Advanced Yajna
– from Siva Puja and Advanced Yajna
– from Siva Puja and Advanced Yajna
– from Siva Puja and Advanced Yajna
– from Siva Puja and Advanced Yajna
– from Siva Puja and Advanced Yajna
– from Siva Puja and Advanced Yajna
January 8 – January 14
– from Gems of Wisdom
– from Shree Maa: Life of a Saint
– from Shree Maa: Life of a Saint
I told Shree Maa that I knew people that had been meditating two and three hours a day for twenty or thirty years and they were not having clear experiences of samadhi.
She said, “If they do tapas (deliberate action to overcome selfish ego based action) they will get samadhi. The meditation you do is very restful, but it is difficult to go beyond in the West. There is so much to draw you out.”
– from Shree Maa: Life of a Saint
– from Shree Maa: Life of a Saint
– from Shree Maa: Life of a Saint
– from Shree Maa: Life of a Saint
January 15 – January 21
– from Gems of Wisdom
– from Ramakrishna: The Nectar of Eternal Bliss
– from Shree Maa: The Guru and the Goddess
– from Shree Maa: The Guru and the Goddess
– from Shree Maa: The Guru and the Goddess
– from Shree Maa: Life of a Saint
– from Ramakrishna: The Nectar of Eternal Bliss
January 22 – January 28
– from Gems of Wisdom
– from Shree Maa: The Guru and the Goddess
– from Shree Maa: The Guru and the Goddess
– from Shree Maa: The Guru and the Goddess
– from Shree Maa: The Guru and the Goddess
– from Shree Maa: The Guru and the Goddess
– from Shree Maa: The Guru and the Goddess
January 29 – February 4
– from Gems of Wisdom
– from Ramakrishna: The Nectar of Eternal Bliss
– from from Ramakrishna: The Nectar of Eternal Bliss
– from from Ramakrishna: The Nectar of Eternal Bliss
– from Ramakrishna: The Nectar of Eternal Bliss
– from Shree Maa: The Guru and the Goddess
– from Shree Maa: The Guru and the Goddess
February 5 – February 11
– from Gems of Wisdom
– from Shree Maa: The Life of a Saint
– from Shree Maa: The Life of a Saint
– from Before Becoming This
– from Before Becoming This
– from Before Becoming This
– from Before Becoming This
February 12 – February 18
– from Gems of Wisdom
– from Before Becoming This
– from Before Becoming This
– from Before Becoming This
– from Before Becoming This
– from Before Becoming This
When we are doubting, we often aren’t aware we are doubting. The doubting thoughts seem very reasonable to us. What do you do when you are in a state of doubt?
“Where there is doubt, have faith.” Those are the words of St. Francis
– from Before Becoming This
February 19 – February 25
– from Gems of Wisdom
– from Gems of Wisdom
– from Before Becoming This
– from Before Becoming This
– from Before Becoming This
– from Shree Maa: The Life of a Saint
– from Shree Maa: The Life of a Saint
February 26 – March 3
– from Gems of Wisdom
– from Gems of Wisdom
– from Shree Maa: The Life of a Saint
– from Shree Maa: The Guru and the Goddess
– from Shree Maa: The Guru and the Goddess
– from Shree Maa: The Guru and the Goddess
– from Ramakrishna: The Nectar of Eternal Bliss
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Photo of the week – Nov 30 – Dec 6, 2007
(Picture taken October 2007 at Devi Mandir, Napa, CA)
May Divine Mother ring the bells that purify our souls
~~OM~~
Ashwamedh means the use of wisdom for the benefit of society. It’s the horse sacrifice. The use of the wisdom of uccishrava, the horse of wisdom, which symbolized the dominion of the kingdom.
In the old Ashwamedha Yagya, a horse was set free, well adorned and decorated, followed by a great army. And wherever the horse roamed into the neighboring kingdoms, those kings would come out and they would either challenge and stop the horse which meant that they would do battle with the army; or they would accept the horse as an emblem of wisdom and they would surrender and unify the kingdoms into an empire.
And that way they reduced the amount of conflict in all the neighboring states by creating a unity in wisdom.

Photo of Cosmic altar
(taken at the Devi Mandir on November 2007)
~~OM~~ There was once a sadhak, a tapasyak, a tantrik sadhak. He was doing this tremendous Smashan Shav Kriya, where you sit in the cremation grounds upon a corpse and […]

Photo of the week – Nov 9 – Nov 15, 2007
(Picture taken October 2007 at Devi Mandir, Napa, CA)
Take Diwali blessings to all.

Photo of Lakshmi Puja on October 25, 2007
At the end of the puja, Mahalakshmi was showered with flowers by all the devotees present!

Photo of the week – Oct 26 – Nov 1 2007
(Picture taken Oct 20, Devi Mandir, Lakshmi Puja celebration)
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