प्रथमा शैलपुत्री

।। नवाह्नपारायणम् ।।

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The Religion of evolution. 

"Time is a cruel deception."

Yesterday I wrote this about while describing the "scientific faith and belief".

Today something new dawned upon me.

This is the first day of :

शारदीय नवरात्र 

shAradIya navarAtra.

A scientist tries to test a premise, a hypothesis or an idea that takes place in his mind. 

He believes if it is proved true, I can evolve into a newer understanding and knowledge. 

Ignoring the very source of this idea, he is so absorbed in his thought that it never occurs to him that there is an unshakable ground where all these ideas sprout up and I, inadvertently get indulged in those many ideas.

He never pays attention to the fact that all these ideas come to him in his mind during the waking state of the mind.

Even more so, he though claims this mind as his own, and believes with full and firm acceptance that he is the master of his mind, he has no least idea about where-from comes up this mind and exactly who or what controls 'his' mind.

There is something beyond his mind that lets  this mind work and perform various intellectual activities.

This is the way of the scientific faith and belief, -the theory, which though hold true during his waking state, but he hardly knows what happens to them when he is either asleep or lost in some dream.

Nevertheless, he can sure see for himself, that there is this consciousness about everything around and of oneself, that is never lost. By no logic, no experience or example one can deny it.  Even if refuted or denied the denial itself shows its existence.

This first day of 

navarAtra - the nine nights, 

When the consciousness manifested, gradually evolved and grew up, prospered in man, denote how this consciousness is the very origin and the prime source of all that was, is and will be.

The first name of that Supreme Reality is :

शैलपुत्री / shailaputri

Which indicates, first of all that consciousness was illuminated in a rock or stone.  No wonder She is appropriately called शैलपुत्री / shailaputri .

We know shell and cell.

A shell is where in the very beginning, the life was manifest. The same is true about :

A cell. 

The biological cell.

This is the first day. 

The same consciousness reigns over the three realms of :

अधिभौतिक / Adhibhautika, -Material, 

आधिदैविक / Adhidaivika, -Divine, 

आधि-आत्मिक (आध्यात्मिक) - Spiritual. 

Respectively.

नवाह्नपारायणम्  / navahnapArAyaNaM,

Points out a study / worship that is done and performed in 9 days. 

Another meaning is :

What is renewed in successive 9 nights / days.

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Tomorrow will be the next,  -the second day of this study, worship.

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