Navratri Festival Special 2013 - Did you know? - Part 4

Goddess Olwen

Mata Kushmanda and Welsh Goddess Olwen

Maa Kushmanda, is worshiped on fourth day during Durga Pooja during the Navratris. She is said to be the power that gives the Sun its power to nourish. Her abode is at the centre of the Sun. Kushmanda is the one who begins the cycle of creation by creating the anda or egg-shaped universe which grows and expands till pralaya.


The Welsh Goddess Olwen, who is the patron of the arts, creativity, excellence and the sun. Her symbols are late-blooming flowers, red and gold items and rings.  She is also called ‘the Golden Wheel, which signifies the wheel of creation and dissolution’, or the beginning of the cycle of the world. She is thus close to the depictions of Kushmanda.  

Maa Kushmanda

                                                                             - Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa Charitable Trust

To know more about Guru Maa’s teachings you may follow her on her account on Twitter and Facebook or log on to www.radhemaa.com. These social pages are handled by her devoted sevadars. To experience her divine grace, Bhakti Sandhyas and Shri Radhe Guru Maa Ji’s darshans are conducted every 15 days at Shri Radhe Maa Bhavan in Borivali, Mumbai. The darshans are free and open to everyone.

One may also volunteer to Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa’s ongoing social initiatives that include book donation drives, blood donation drives, heart checkup campaigns and financial support for various surgical procedures. Contact Shri Radhe Maa’s sevadar on +91 98200 82849 or email on admin@radhemaa.com to participate in these charitable activities.

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Navratri Festival Special 2013 - Did you know? - Part 3

Selene

Maa Chandraghanta, the one with the moon, in Greece  

Goddess Selene

After her marriage to Lord Shiva, Goddess Mahagauri (Parvati) began to wear half Chandra on her forehead and acquired the name Goddess Chandraghanta. Devi Chandraghanta is worshipped on the third day of Navratri. Greek mythology has Selene, the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia, who is the ruler of the moon. Selene drives her moon chariot across the heavens, and wears the moon on her head like Chandraghanta. 

Maa Chandraghata

                                                   - Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa Charitable Trust

To know more about Guru Maa’s teachings you may follow her on her account on Twitter and Facebook or log on to www.radhemaa.com. These social pages are handled by her devoted sevadars. To experience her divine grace, Bhakti Sandhyas and Shri Radhe Guru Maa Ji’s darshans are conducted every 15 days at Shri Radhe Maa Bhavan in Borivali, Mumbai. The darshans are free and open to everyone.

One may also volunteer to Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa’s ongoing social initiatives that include book donation drives, blood donation drives, heart checkup campaigns and financial support for various surgical procedures. Contact Shri Radhe Maa’s sevadar on +91 98200 82849 or email on admin@radhemaa.com to participate in these charitable activities.

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Navratri Festival Special 2013 - Did you know? - Part 2

 Maa Brahmacharini  
the Virgin Goddess, in the Roman world 

Bramhacharini, the form of Sati before she wed Lord Shiva is worshipped on the second day of Navratri.Virgin goddesses have existed since time immemorial in the various spiritual traditions in the world. Vesta is the virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and family in Roman religion. Vesta's presence is symbolized by the sacred fire that burned at her hearth and temples. Virgin goddesses in other spiritual traditions include Anat, Artemis, Astraea (mythology), Athena, Bona Dea and Britomartis. 

                                                      

                                                        - Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa Charitable Trust

 

 

To know more about Guru Maa’s teachings you may follow her on her account on Twitter and Facebook or log on to www.radhemaa.com. These social pages are handled by her devoted sevadars. To experience her divine grace, Bhakti Sandhyas and Shri Radhe Guru Maa Ji’s darshans are conducted every 15 days at Shri Radhe Maa Bhavan in Borivali, Mumbai. The darshans are free and open to everyone.

One may also volunteer to Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa’s ongoing social initiatives that include book donation drives, blood donation drives, heart checkup campaigns and financial support for various surgical procedures. Contact Shri Radhe Maa’s sevadar on +91 98200 82849 or email on admin@radhemaa.com to participate in these charitable activities.

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Navratri Festival Special 2013 - Did you know?

Devi Shailputri in ancient Greece 

Aspects of Goddess Shailputri, or the Daughter of the Mountain, or Uma, were present in the ancient Greek-Roman tradition's depictions of the Goddess Cybele. Like Goddess Durga, Cybele was associated with mountains (Pahada-waali), hawks and lions (Sherawali). She was often depicted riding a chariot or rath driven by lions like Goddess Durga. Cybele was dear to eunuch and trans-gendered people (hijras) like Mahashakti Renuka in the Hindu tradition. Mother Cybele was also known as 'Mother of the mountain.'

                                                           - Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa Charitable Trust

To know more about Guru Maa’s teachings you may follow her on her account on Twitter and Facebook or log on to www.radhemaa.com. These social pages are handled by her devoted sevadars. To experience her divine grace, Bhakti Sandhyas and Shri Radhe Guru Maa Ji’s darshans are conducted every 15 days at Shri Radhe Maa Bhavan in Borivali, Mumbai. The darshans are free and open to everyone.

One may also volunteer to Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa’s ongoing social initiatives that include book donation drives, blood donation drives, heart checkup campaigns and financial support for various surgical procedures. Contact Shri Radhe Maa’s sevadar on +91 98200 82849 or email on admin@radhemaa.com to participate in these charitable activities.

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Navratri Special - Great Devi Devotees of Modern Age

 Acharya Vamadeva Shastri
the American who became Hindu

He is one of the few Westerners ever recognized in India as a "Vedacharya" or teacher of the ancient Vedic wisdom.  He is believed to be a bridge between the East and the West, the ancient and the modern.

Vamadeva Shastri works relentlessly to explain to the world about the values and concepts which Hinduism propounded which has a validity not just for Hindu Society but are meant for the entire universe. The passion for spreading the vedic knowledge is such that up-till now Shastriji has written more then 30 books on subjects such as yoga, tantra, jyotish, ayuerveda and vedanta. He started "American Institute of Vedic Studies" in USA to spread the right vedantic knowledge to the western society, Vedic Research Centre, Bangalore and has been associated with many ayuervedic Hindu organization for spreading the message of Vedas.

On deity worshiping he once mentioned, "...it honors the Earth as the Divine Mother and encourages us to honor her and help her develop her creative potentials. The deities of Hinduism permeate the world of nature…they don't belong to a single country or book only.."

                                                           - Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa Charitable Trust

To know more about Guru Maa’s teachings you may follow her on her account on Twitter and Facebook or log on to www.radhemaa.com. These social pages are handled by her devoted sevadars. To experience her divine grace, Bhakti Sandhyas and Shri Radhe Guru Maa Ji’s darshans are conducted every 15 days at Shri Radhe Maa Bhavan in Borivali, Mumbai. The darshans are free and open to everyone.

One may also volunteer to Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa’s ongoing social initiatives that include book donation drives, blood donation drives, heart checkup campaigns and financial support for various surgical procedures. Contact Shri Radhe Maa’s sevadar on +91 98200 82849 or email on admin@radhemaa.com to participate in these charitable activities.

To get latest updates about 'Shri Radhe Guru Maa' visit -

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