3rd Night of Navaratri – Sindoor Tritiya 28th September 2022

Dear Family,

Jai Shri Mataji!

Today on the 3rd night if Navaratri – called Sindoor Tritya, we offer HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi’s 1991 talk… She who is Shri Adi Shakti and Shri Durga and all the Goddesses!

We are also sharing today’s events from the International Navaratri Seminar and the reading from the Devi Mahatmyam.

Talk and video “…if you can understand, is that you have to recognise Me.”
Devi Mahatmyam Third Night reading from the Devi Mahatmyam
Webcast 3rd Night from International Navaratri Celebrations 2022

Photo: HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Navaratri Puja Hampstead UK (7 Saris photo series) 1982

…if you can understand, is that you have to recognise Me.”

HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Navaratri Puja. Cabella, 13 October 1991

“So, the modern Sahaj Yogi is very different from the Sahaj Yogi of olden times, because in the olden times it was not easy to get realisation – one in a billion or in a trillion – and they had to work very hard. So, as they worked hard, very hard, they got cleansed and built up themselves and toiled. Like any art piece which takes time, is done with care, is definitely thousand times better than these modern artists just putting two, three lines like this. So today’s human being is like a modern artist. You put one line and you say, “You must see this in that person, you must have an identity!” I mean what identity you can have? With one line? You say, “Find out the identity.”

So the Sahaj Yogis which are today here have to realise that all these things are surrounding us and these evil forces are also there. They are some within us, some are without. So it looks to be a very difficult task, but is not, because one condition, if you can understand, is that you have to recognise Me. I know I am Mahamaya. I am really very clever at it! But I am truthful, I do not have crocodile tears: I cannot have. I am truthful. But still I am Mahamaya. So to recognise me, what should we do? If we recognise, then you are protected.

And the cleansing is the simplest thing in Sahaj Yoga is to be collective. If you are not collective, then know that something [is] wrong with you. If you are collective, then as if you are taking your bath in the River Ganges. You don’t have to go to Himalayas, you don’t have to do individual sadhana much, you don’t have to – just be collective!”

HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi – Navaratri Puja. Cabella, 13 October 1991

Full Transcript, Video & Audio

Third Night – Devi Mahatmyam

The Devi Mahatmyam (Glory of the Goddess) from the Markandeya Purana. This great story is in praise of the Mother, the Great Goddess. Translated by Lyndal Vercoe and read by Tim Bruce. (All the Chapters)