talks about the purpose of all the pujas during Navaratri. The Mother Divine is Prakriti (the entire creation). Everything in this creation is made up of the three gunas or qualities: Sattva, Rajas and Tamas. Sattva is associated with calmness, clarity of mind, enthusiasm and peace. Rajas is needed for action but often creates feverishness. Tamas is inertia and an imbalance in tamas can lead to laziness, dullness and even depression. When you handle tamas properly you move into sattva. Every being in this creation is caught in the play of the gunas. How does one come out of this cycle, and transcend these boundaries? For that, you need to raise your sattva and come out of the cycle through proper meditation, silence and food control. Transcending the gunas, one gets established in the Shiva tatva or the pure and infinite consciousness. Prakriti is full of the opposites like night and day, heat and cold, pain and pleasure, joy and sorrow. By rising above the opposites, transcending duality, once again the Shiva tatva is attained. This is the purpose of all the pujas during Navaratri - to manifest the unmanifest and unseen energy, the Devi, by whose grace one can transcend the gunas and attain the supreme, undivided, indivisible, pure, infinite consciousness. This is possible when you are immersed in the Guru tatva (principle), only in the presence of the Master.
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