Worship Maa Kaalratri - Durga Devi on the 7th day of Navaratri

🌹 Worship Maa Kaalratri - Durga Devi on the 7th day of Navaratri 🌹


The 7th day of Navaratri is dedicated to Maa Kalratri, the 7th Avtar of Maa Durga. Here, Kaal means time and death and Kaalratri means the One who is the Death of Kaal. Maa Kalratri destroys ignorance and brings light into the dark. Well, this form also depicts the dark side - the super power that creates havoc and removes all things bad and dirty. But to Her devotees, She brings calmness and courage.

Maa Kaalratri has dark complexion. Donkey is Her mount, She has bountiful hair and four hands. One of the two left hands holds a cleaver and the other holds a torch, and the right two hands are in "giving" and "protecting" mudras. She has three eyes emanate rays like lightning and Her necklace is shining like thunder. When She inhales and exhales air, flames appear through Her nostrils. Ganesha advises you to wear Blue, Read and White colour on this day.

Kaalratri is the most fierce one among the nine durgas , simply because she gives the highest realization to her devotee by annihilating his / her mortal limitations and grants them fearlessness. Her fierceness represents her higher intensity , as even her ornaments are nothing else but high voltage electric waves . Highly intense means she gives transcendence to her bhakta easily by making them quickly suffer their accumulation of past mortal karmas.

She is meditated upon in a form with untied long hair , she is digambara or naked as she is the entire cosmos and their can hardly be any clothes made for her as external covering because she is everything . She holds a shinny sword and a Vajra ( thunderbolt ) in left upper and lower hand and abhaya and Vara mudras in right upper and lower hands . She's seated on a gardabh / donkey , which shows that every creature is beloved of Divine Mother . Her face expression is Raudramukhi / fierce with wide big open eyes and a gentle smile on her lips.


🍀. Spiritual Significance 🍀

In Durga Saptashati , Kaalratri is mentioned along with the three spiritual nights . Kaalratri means the night of dissolution. As earlier told her ornaments and body are charged electric waves which reveals that anything which goes close to her will merge / dissolve in her . She'll release them from mortality , hence she grants Moksha or liberation to her devotees . She is also called Shubhankari for the same reason in shastras , as Moksha the highest transcendental liberation which is difficult to experience is granted easily by her . Easy means the fruits of selfless Sadhna will yield auspicious results with her grace.

Maa teaches us that sorrow, pain, decay, destruction and death are unavoidable and cannot be ignored. These are the truths of life and denying them is futile. We must accept their presence and significance to realise the fullness of our being and our potential.

Kaalratri is also called Bhayankari , the dangerous one whose name itself terrorises the demons and all other negative forces. She destroys fear in her devotee's mind and grants them wisdom to cross the ocean of samsara / physical life effortlessly.


🌷Mantra and other Facts

Recite the below-mentioned Mantras to get the blessing from the almighty Maa Kalratri.


ॐ देवी कालरात्र्यै नमः

Om Devi Kalaratryai Namah



या देवी सर्वभू‍तेषु माँ कालरात्रि रूपेण संस्थिता। 

नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमो नमः

Ya Devi Sarvabhuteshu Ma Kalaratri Rupena Samsthita
Namastasyai Namastasyai Namastasyai Namo Namah



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Although the Goddess Kalaratri is the most ferocious form of Goddess Durga, she blesses her devotees with Abhaya and Varada Mudras. Because of her Shubh or auspicious power within her ferocious form Goddess Kalaratri is also known as Goddess Shubhankari.

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