There she is - the woman who all claimed was just too much. You recognize the one – she who is too curious, too emotional, too demanding. The one we claim is never satisfied, is too loud, is too proud - loves too quickly, feels too easily, asks too closely, desires too willingly.
She is
electrifying.
She fills up
too much – spilling all over the place and taking over any terrain - with her words
and curves, her honesty and guile, her senses and sexuality. Her presence as
tall as a mountain, as vast as the ocean, as glaring as the sky. Her energy electrifying
every crevice of the room. Not knowing her place, she takes up too much space.
In celebration, we require three sets of three days to worship the different aspects of this supreme goddess.
Three days
the power is invoked as the fierce force of Durga, destroyer of any impurity, vice, and
defect. Three days the goddess is adored in Lakshmi, giver of spiritual wealth, with
the power of bestowing inexhaustible abundance to her devotees. Three days the mother
is worshipped as Saraswati, the goddess of wisdom.
Navaratri means nine nights, the
festival is observed twice a year - in the beginning of summer and at the onset
of winter.
