Böcker av Swami Satyananda Saraswati

Ganesha is the first son of Shiva and Parvati. He is the Lord of the Multitudes. He is the door-keeper; he holds the key to the inner sanctum of the heart, where the Divine Mother resides. He is the first to be worshipped so that the endeavors we embark upon are free of obstacles.

The Devi Gita comes from the last ten chapters of the seventh skanda of the Devi Bhagavatam and presents the magnificent dialogue between Himalaya and the Divine Mother, when She declared that She would take birth in his house as the Goddess Parvati. Himalaya asked, "How shall I act when I become the father of the Divine Mother? What will be my attitudes toward life? What will be my spiritual discipline? How can I remember Your divinity all the time?" This book presents a trove of information including a list of the places of pilgrimage in honor of the Goddess, directions for how to sit, how to breathe, and how to please the Divine Mother through acts of devotion. This book is presented with the original Sanskrit, the Roman phonetic transliteration and the exquisite English translation.