#maa lakshmi

[merevasudevmeremadhav]

She is beauty She is grace gosh i love this diva!!💗🪷🪷

[randomx123]

I know there's no festival around now,and I can't wait till the next Durga Puja/Navratri to post this...

So here's a drawing of Maa Durga I randomly got the idea for one day. Took me almost forever to finish too...

[oliviaalexandraamores]

[gaurishankara-edits]

Dwarkadhish and Rukmini Devi

[jayshrisitaram108]

ll श्रीमहालक्ष्मी अष्टकम ll

इंद्र उवाच

नमस्तेऽस्तु महामाये श्रीपीठे सुरपूजिते ।

शंखचक्र गदाहस्ते महालक्ष्मि नमोऽस्तु ते ॥ 1 ॥

नमस्ते गरुडारूढे कोलासुर भयंकरि ।

सर्वपापहरे देवि महालक्ष्मि नमोऽस्तु ते ॥ 2 ॥

सर्वज्ञे सर्ववरदे सर्व दुष्ट भयंकरि ।

सर्वदुःख हरे देवि महालक्ष्मि नमोऽस्तु ते ॥ 3 ॥

सिद्धि बुद्धि प्रदे देवि भुक्ति मुक्ति प्रदायिनि ।

मंत्र मूर्ते सदा देवि महालक्ष्मि नमोऽस्तु ते ॥ 4 ॥

आद्यंत रहिते देवि आदिशक्ति महेश्वरि ।

योगज्ञे योग संभूते महालक्ष्मि नमोऽस्तु ते ॥ 5 ॥

स्थूल सूक्ष्म महारौद्रे महाशक्ति महोदरे ।

महा पाप हरे देवि महालक्ष्मि नमोऽस्तु ते ॥ 6 ॥

पद्मासन स्थिते देवि परब्रह्म स्वरूपिणि ।

परमेशि जगन्मातः महालक्ष्मि नमोऽस्तु ते ॥ 7 ॥

श्वेतांबरधरे देवि नानालंकार भूषिते ।

जगस्थिते जगन्मातः महालक्ष्मि नमोऽस्तु ते ॥ 8 ॥

महालक्ष्मष्टकं स्तोत्रं यः पठेद् भक्तिमान् नरः ।

सर्व सिद्धि मवाप्नोति राज्यं प्राप्नोति सर्वदा ॥

एककाले पठेन्नित्यं महापाप विनाशनम् ।

द्विकालं यः पठेन्नित्यं धन धान्य समन्वितः ॥

त्रिकालं यः पठेन्नित्यं महाशत्रु विनाशनम् ।

महालक्ष्मी र्भवेन्-नित्यं प्रसन्ना वरदा शुभा ॥

[sidrashakti]

Happy Diwali 2024! 

ॐ श्रीं ह्रीं श्रीं कमले कमलालये प्रसीद प्रसीद ॐ श्रीं ह्रीं श्रीं महालक्ष्मयै नम:॥

Om Shreem Hreem Shreem Kamale Kamalalaye Praseed Praseed Om Shreem Hreem Shreem Mahalakshmaye Namah॥

सीता राम सीता राम सीता राम जय सीता राम

sītā rāma, sītā rāma, sītā rāma, jaya sītā rāma

ॐ श्री मात्रे नमः

Om Shri Matre Namah

[bhagavanbhakthi]

Goddess Lakshmi - Virtuous (Satvik) Wealth Provider

[zoe-the-astromaniac]

I love Mahishasur Mardini stotram.

Don’t get me wrong, I love all the stotrams. Shiv Tandav, Shree Hari, and whichever other ones I’m missing. I love them all. The thing is, Maa Durga has always been taught to us as a mother, which is actually beautiful, it helps us connect to her on a personal level. Her bhakti becomes much easier and pleasant because you have an established relationship with her.

But the thing is, While Devi Shakti (and Devi Sharda and Devi Ramaa to that extent) are our mothers, I feel like this leads us to focus completely on their maternal side and generally their tamer actions, like Matas bringing prosperity, bliss, knowledge, and I think this materialistic approach towards praying to them is why I hadn’t been able to connect to her on the same level as Shree Hari even though my mother is a staunch devotee of hers.

I genuinely thought that this was simply because it was in my destiny to have Shree Narayan as my aradhya. Until I heard the stotram and realised that this isn’t the case. It’s simply because I’m lost to the other side of These goddesses.

The side that is a warrior. The side that slayed Mahishasur, Dhindhinasur, Madhu, Kaitabh, Harshad, Marshad, Sahastra Ravan, Narakasur, Chand, Mund, Raktabeej, Kohlasur, Bhairo Nath, and many others with her valour. The side that haunts the sons of Diti. The side that scares Jalandhar with her fire. The side that is a daughter. A daughter of Himachal, Daksh, Shaila, Bhrigu, Janak. A side that as Parvati is the sister of Vishnu. The side that is a woman with braided hair, the one who is the mistress of most ferocious animals.

A side that is the power. The power of Bramha as Sharda, of Narayan as Padma and of Mahesh as Gaura. The sheer rage that is Kali, the immovability of Parvati as she sets her mind to marry her love. The valour of Meenakshi as she conquers everything from Kanyakumari to Kailash. The yog of Sita who could have destroyed Ravan to atoms if she wished. The Determination of Satyabhama who killed her own son for righteousness.

The side that will appear out of a statue and hurt those who try to harm her children. The side that will take any form just like Narayan and Shiva to end the evils. The side that completes her divinity.

We never focus on these aspect of theirs like we do with Shri Narayan and Bhagwaan Shankar. We are too used to their maternal sides and never discuss this one, when we need to in order to understand them as well as we understand the other two Gods.

Because while we need her maternal side to know that she loves us, we need her other side to shed the perceptions of materialism we have associated with her. To know that she is a Goddess same as the other two and not just a boon granter. (Well, we can ask her for boons and other materialistic stuff ofcourse, but lets not confine her role to just that please :/)

We need her motherly side to establish a connection of love with her, and her other side to connect with her on the divine level.

We need to understand that she’s our Maa Durga who we love, and also Mahishasur Mardini whom we learn for. While we need to look at her as she holds us in difficult times, and say:

“She’s our mother, and we love her.”

We alsi need to look at her with love while she slays demons, and say:

“She’s our mother, we learn from her.”

(Art not mine)