Please enjoy this beautiful and heart-felt dance offered by Seelu and Ahnkeeta (a mother-daughter duo!) to our Beloved Divine Mother Shree Maa on this very blessed Mother’s Day. May the dance of the Divine Mother (and the Divine Daughter!) be revealed in our hearts this Mother’s Day, filling us with her light, love, and divine […]

Now is a global health crisis, one impacting India in an especially dreadful way. Shree Maa has requested all of her children to join her in a Sankalpa for the health, protection, and welfare of the world. Please chant one mala of both mantras daily with us! 1 Mala a day (108 recitations) of the […]

Swamiji, you ask forgiveness ‘ksamasya’ at the end of every puja. From whom are you asking and for what reason? 🙏🏼🌺 We are asking God’s forgiveness us for ending the worship. We recite the mantra with the mudra. Picking up the flower from the yantra we put it back to our hearts. Then we say […]

In the Lalita Sahasranama Stotram, we sing the praises of the Goddess Lalita and her divine qualities. By chanting the names of Lalita, we are granted spiritual clarity and intense love for Divine Mother. The chanting of the Lalita Sahashranama, the Thousand Names of Lalita Devi, brings us great fruit. The Chanter becomes a shining light in […]

 Why is Goddess Dhumvati depicted as the Goddess of misfortune, poverty, death, destruction, quarrels, or as being hungry and thirsty, etc? (The iconography is quite contradictory to all the other bejeweled and bedecked Goddesses one normally comes across in the Hindu pantheon.) Dhumavati is shown as the Goddess of misfortune, poverty, death, destruction, quarrels, or […]

Do Gurus see the faults of the disciples when they come to their shelter? What pre-requisites does a guru require in a student? Do they offer guidance to the saint & sinner alike? Can anyone come to the Gurus basically? Sometimes I feel, not enough, why do they still keep shining their grace on me? […]

” Bathing has special importance in our spiritual tradition. Not only do we take a bath or shower before worship at the altar, but we also offer a series of baths to the deity during puja. Let us learn about the best way to bathe before worship, there are specific instructions that we should follow […]

I am interested in Kali kavacha construction. In the Kali Kavacha from the Kali Puja book, before the phalashruti, it refers to writing the mantra using Kasturi, Chandana, and kumkum on bhojpatra. When it says mantra what exactly is it referring to? Is it a part of the kavacha, the navarna, or some other mantra?” […]

In the Laxmi Puja, the Nine Durga section, we worship the Nine Durgas. I am curious about why we include this in an elaborate Laxmi Puja. The Nine Durga Puja is a formula for success towards any goal which we define.  Our goals are what we value, our values are our wealth, it is appropriate […]