Devi Mahatmyam
A year-long exploration
The Devi Mahatmyam , also known as the Durgā Saptashatī (दुर्गासप्तशती) or Chandi Path (चंडी पाठ), contains 700 verses arranged into 13 chapters. It is one of the most important texts that eulogizes and worships the divine feminine.
About the sessions
We will meet once a week for an hour on Thursdays from 8:30am to 9:30am. Each session involves chanting a few sloka-s, engaging with the sloka-s and contemplating on them from the location of our life experiences. We will present a brief translation and engage with the Slokas based on the evocations of the words and meanings.
Week after week, as we read through the sloka-s of Devi Mahatmyam, the richness of it comes alive - as each of us shares how this deeply nuanced, layered, poetic story touches us, relates to our life context, the questions we ponder on. Listening to each other creates another layer of evocations, inspirations and possibilities for contemplation.
Our approach will perhaps be a departure from a traditional exposition or teaching of the text by a guru. In our exploration we will not follow a scholarly approach or a debate on the (esoteric) ideas. The endeavor in these sessions is to explore the text together, to engage with it from a location of self-reflection and an open-ness to find one’s own meaning without looking for a specific meaning from outside.
The beauty of Indic traditions is the space for everyone to connect to divinity in their own way as many others like Kannapar, Mirabai, Aandaal have done. All that is required is a thirst and curiosity to connect to divinity in one’s life context.
The sessions will be anchored by Anita Balasubramanian.
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