🔱✨ Shubh Navaratri ✨🔱 - Page 2

Very beautifully written. Loved it.

Shubh Navratri to everyone.

Happy Navratri to everyone

Nice thread . Subh Navratri , jai Adi parashakthi.

Śubha Nava-rātri to everyone!

Crazy Creatives' writeup this year is very appealing, a huge improvement. (Typo "Stillhe" should be "She" for MahaGauri) Awesome analysis by TheGirlofRagas.

Harivaṃśa 40.26-34 identifies Nidrā with Kālarātri (the seventh of the Nava-Durgā Goddesses). This passage can be sung like anything in śloka metre.

या ह्येषा गह्वरी माया निद्रेति जगति स्थिता ।

अकस्माद् द्वेषिणी घोरा कालरात्रिर्महीक्षिताम् ।।

yā hy eṣā gahvarī māyā Nidre'ti jagati sthitā

akasmād dveṣiṇī ghorā Kālarātrir mahīkṣitām

There is such a mysterious magic present in the world as Sleep, who is hostile without cause, the horrific Night of Time for guardians of the earth.

अस्यास्तनुस्तमोद्वारा निशादिवसनाशिनी ।

जीवितार्धहरी घोरा सर्वप्राणभृतां भुवि ।।

asyās tanus tamo-dvārā niśā-divasa-nāśinī

jīvit'ārdha-harī ghorā sarva-prāṇabhṛtāṃ bhuvi

Her body has orifices of darkness. She wastes nights and days. Horrific, she steals half the lives of all that draw breath on earth.

नैतया कश्चिदाविष्टो जृम्भमाणो मुहुर्मुहुः ।

शक्तः प्रसहितुं वेगं मज्जन्निव महार्णवे ।।

n'aitayā kaścid āviṣṭo jṛmbhamāṇo muhur muhuḥ

śaktaḥ prasahituṃ vegaṃ majjann iva mahārṇave

Yawning over and over, no one entered by this one is able to oppose her impact, as if sinking in a great ocean.

अन्नजा भुवि मर्त्यानां श्रमजा वा कथंचन ।

नैशा भवति लोकस्य निद्रा सर्वस्य लौकिकी ।।

annajā bhuvi martyānāṃ śramajā vā kathaṃcana

naiśā bhavati lokasya Nidrā sarvasya laukikī

Born of food for mortals on earth, or born of whatsoever exertion, Sleep of the night is common for the entire populace.

स्वप्नान्ते क्षीयते ह्येषा प्रायशो भुवि देहिनाम् ।

मृत्युकाले च भूतानां प्राणान्नाशयते भृशम् ।।

svapn'ānte kṣīyate hy eṣā prāyaśo bhuvi dehinām

mṛtyu-kāle ca bhūtānāṃ prāṇān nāśayate bhṛśam

For those with bodies on earth, generally, this one just dissipates when dreams end. And at the time of death for beings, she suddenly removes their breaths.

देवेष्वपि दधारैनां नान्यो नारायणादृते ।

सखी सर्वहरस्यैषा माया विष्णुशरीरजा ।।

deveṣv api dadhār'aināṃ n'ānyo Nārāyaṇād ṛte

sakhī sarva-harasy'aiṣā māyā Viṣṇu-śarīrajā

Even among the Gods, none holds this one except Nārāyaṇa. This friend of Death who steals everyone is a magic born of Viṣṇu's body.

सैषा नारायणमुखे दृष्टा कमललोचना ।

लोकानल्पेन कालेन भजते भूतमोहिनी ।।

s'aiṣā Nārāyaṇa-mukhe dṛṣṭā kamala-locanā

lokān alpena kālena bhajate bhūta-mohinī

She is the same one seen on Nārāyaṇa's face, with lotus-eyes, visiting the populace for a brief time and befuddling beings.

एवमेषा हितार्थाय लोकानां कृष्णवर्त्मना ।

ध्रियते सेवनीयेन पतिनेव पतिव्रता ।।

evam eṣā hit'ārthāya lokānāṃ kṛṣṇa-vartmanā

dhriyate sevanīyena patine'va pati-vratā

So, for the sake of welfare of the populace, this one is held by him of black movement, like a married woman by her approachable husband.

स तया निद्रया छन्नस्तस्मिन्नारायणाश्रमे ।

शेते स्म हि तदा विष्णुर्मोहयञ्जगदव्ययः ।।

sa tayā Nidrayā channas tasmin Nārāyaṇ'āśrame

śete sma hi tadā Viṣṇur mohayañ jagad avyayaḥ

He, unspent Viṣṇu, hidden by that Sleep in that Nārāyaṇa Retreat, indeed lay only then, confusing the world.

Happy navratri and Durga puja to everyone!

Originally posted by: BrhannadaArmour

Śubha Nava-rātri to everyone!

Crazy Creatives' writeup this year is very appealing, a huge improvement. (Typo "Stillhe" should be "She" for MahaGauri) Awesome analysis by TheGirlofRagas.

I read your post such a lovely post ❤❤❤

And thanks for reading me

शुभ नवरात्रि 🙏

Subh Navaratri to everyone…

Jai Maa 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Maa is always so kind to me that she has always blessed me. Though being a Shiva devotee, I feel that Maa feels up all the energy within me. I will be chanting Om Namah Shivaay in my free time, but my will power to be strong is Maa Adi Shakti's blessing

All the people out here, just sharing Aigiri Nandini Hindi Adaptation, please listen to it, a wonderful translation of those Sanskrit Verses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsTgfxfxy4I