Bhu Devi
Bhu Devi yagna
is a Vaishnava tradition to celebrate and pray to Mother Earth. Bhu Devi is
actually Mother Earth. This yagna that we are doing is to show our
gratitude and appreciation to Her, and also our understanding that She is going
through a lot, not only now, but for centuries, actually. She has been taking a
lot onto Herself, but people don´t see that this Mother is suffering. Its so
easy to forget how important this Mother Earth is. We are here, we are born,
yet we give Her so little attention. Mother Earth gives. She gives, gives,
gives, not even expecting anything, nor taking. She is a manifestation of the
compassionate, the ever-giving One and She is a manifestation of devotion also.
One can pray to God but, you see, when you show your appreciation, when you
show your thankfulness, you have to show it to the person, to the Deity.
There is a
temple in Hampi, in South India, where She is venerated as the Universal
Mother, as the Mother of Brahma, Vishnu, even of Shiva. Because it’s only here
on this physical plane that She manifests Herself - even all the Avatars
manifest themselves. The Divine manifests Itself here, on Earth, because
She is very special to Him. She’s considered to be the wife of Maha Vishnu.
She’s considered to be the other part of Lakshmi. Whenever Maha Lakshmi takes
aspect as, for example, Sita or Radha or Andal or a different manifestation of
Maha Lakshmi, it is Bhu Devi who manifests Herself. In the Srimad Bhagavatam
Maha Vishnu said to Bhu Devi (after He rescued Her from drowning in the big
ocean) “You will be ever present on my chest. From now on, people will venerate
You as my wife and whenever You are in distress, I shall manifest Myself on
You, to save the world.”
Everything
is made with five elements. The whole Universe is bound by these five elements,
but in the whole Universe, not everywhere has these five elements in action.
The only place where you have the five elements in action is Bhu Devi. That’s
why, among all the planets, the Earth is the most beautiful. We are very lucky.
That’s why the Divine always manifests on Mother Earth.
The prayer that we are going to do right now is called the Sudakshari
Matri Puja. There will be sixteen invocations (into kalash), actually
seventeen with the Bhu Devi, of all the forms of the Divine Mother. The sixteen
aspects, forms and shakti of the Divine Mother, are actually the sixteen
facets of the moon - called Nitya Kala - and also the sixteen qualities
of Maha Vishnu. All these prayers which you will be chanting, all the mantras
which you will be chanting, all of them will be transferred to the Mother Earth
kalash, which in turn will be transferred to the whole
world.
We are going to
chant the mantra Om Shrim Hreem Kreem Shreem Sri Devi Bhumavatiye Namaha.
It is for Bhu Devi, Mother Earth. It is said that if someone chants this mantra
36 times daily one will, first of all, get rid of all the negativity inside
oneself and, secondly, one will get peace in oneself and in the surroundings.
Om is the king of all the mantras and it is actually also the root
of Lakshmi mantra. The Om mantra is a primordial sound in itself.
What happens when one chants Om, is that one is dissolving pride. The
word Shrim, this bij mantra, is very powerful in itself as it
destroys all the negativity and brings peace. Hrim is also a bij
mantra of giving peace, but Krim is Kali, Aim is Saraswati,
The bij mantra Shreem or Srim denotes Maha Lakshmi, the giver of
boons, and the Sarva Shakti, the all-pervading Shakti. Maha
Lakshmi creates also the balance. The balance in the elements, balance in
yourself by purifying you, by cleansing all the negativity out of you, by
uniting your body, mind and spirit, so that you can advance on your spiritual
path.
Then
we have “Shree Devi Bhumavatiye Namaha”. This is the presiding Deity,
Bhu Devi, Mother Earth Herself. When we chant the mantra, we invoke the
Deity. Vibrationally the Deity is present. The Deities are vibrations. The
moment you invoke them, call for them, they take their place and are present
here with us. After that, they will be installed inside of each one of us
because in reality we invoke them from deep within ourselves.
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