For the protection of your friends and your family.
Durga is the goddess who guards a household. Brahmins in India perform her Yagya every month, on the day of the waxing moon that belongs to her. A Brahmin says your name aloud in the Sankalpa, the declaration that dedicates the Yagya to the people named in it. The whole Yagya is filmed, and the recording reaches you, usually within a day.
$150, every four months. Three payments a year.
And one Yagya free with every payment. The first free one goes in on the day you sign up, so you receive a total of fifteen Yagyas throughout the calendar year: twelve of Durga’s, and three more.
Or begin with a single Yagya, $37.50.
A request to Durga is usually made for somebody else. People ask her for their household, for a daughter who has moved to another city, for a husband, for a parent. Coming to Durga on behalf of other people is the ordinary way to come to her, and it asks for nothing out of the way.
Caring for other people is Durga’s own responsibility in the tradition. Durga is the fearsome form of the Mother, and every image of Durga shows her armed and calm at the same moment, the way a mother can be both.
Most people outside India know Durga through Navratri, the nine nights kept each autumn, which is the largest festival of the Goddess in the year. Navratri comes once.
Durga also holds a day in every single lunar month. The tradition calls that day the monthly Durgashtami, the eighth day of the waxing moon, and the eighth day of the waxing moon arrives in every month of the year.
So the Brahmins can perform Durga’s Yagya for you twelve times in a year, and that is what makes a standing arrangement possible at all.
Durga’s Yagya is built around the Durga Saptashati, seven hundred verses telling how the Goddess met what was sent against her. The Brahmins recite those verses while they pour offerings into the fire. A full reading with the offerings runs between two and three hours, from the first pouring to the last.
Before the offerings begin, a Brahmin makes the Sankalpa. The Sankalpa is a formal declaration, and the Sankalpa states the date, the place, the purpose, and the names of every person the Yagya is performed for. Your name sits among those names, said aloud, in Sanskrit, in front of the fire. More about the Sankalpa here.
The Brahmins light our Yagyas in two places, and the calendar names the place for each month.
One place is Vrindavan, Krishna’s own town on the Yamuna.
The other is the Kangra Valley in the Himalayas. India has called that valley Dev Bhoomi, the Land of the Gods, since before the records we hold. Five of the great seats of the Mother Goddess stand inside that one valley, under the snow line. More about Dev Bhoomi here.
Durga belongs in Kangra as she belongs in few other places on earth.
Two days before the Yagya, a note tells you the day and the hour the Brahmins will light the fire. You can then put your mind on the Yagya wherever you happen to be.
Afterwards a private link brings you the recording of the Yagya your name was read in. The recording is yours to keep.
Names close 48 hours before each Yagya, so you can add or correct a name at any point in the month.
We promise a Yagya. Brahmins who have performed these rites since childhood build the fire by hand and tend it through every stage. One of those Brahmins says your name in the Sankalpa. A recording reaches you afterwards, so you can check every part of that description for yourself.
What follows in a person’s life belongs to the tradition to speak about, and to you to weigh. We tell you what the Brahmins perform, on which day, and which of them performs it, and we send you the film.
A single Yagya speaks your intention once. The Brahmins say your name, the offerings go into the fire, and the recording comes to you. That is whole in itself, and many people want exactly that.
A standing Sankalpa works differently. Your name enters Durga’s fire this month, and again next month, and again the month after, on her own day every time, spoken by the same Brahmins into the same fire. It carries on for as long as you keep it. The tradition holds that an intention gathers force by being repeated, and that the repetition is the practice, rather than the first performance of it.
That is what a vow is. An intention is something a person keeps, rather than something a person makes once and leaves behind. It is also the reason the Brahmins light these fires on a cycle, on days the calendar fixes, instead of lighting them whenever somebody asks.
So a standing Sankalpa is not a run of separate requests. It is one intention, carried into the fire every month, and returned to you every month on film.
$150 every four months buys one Yagya a month, and you choose which Yagya it is. Three payments a year.
One Yagya free with every payment. The first free one goes in on the day you sign up, and another arrives with each payment after that. So you receive a total of fifteen Yagyas throughout the calendar year: twelve of the one you chose, and three more.
The arrangement continues until you stop it, and you can stop it whenever you like.
See all fourteen Yagyas if another one sits closer to what you are carrying.
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