Navratri Celebrations Day 1, celebrating the Goddess Shailputri

Happy Navratri! In this beautiful teaching on the first day of Navratri Sadhviji begins a very special 9-day series in which she shares about each of the 9 forms of the Mother Goddess, or NavDurga, as well as the 9 forms of ego which – through the grace of the Devi – we can be free of to go deeper on our spiritual path.

This first day of Navratri celebrates the Goddess Shailputri, whose abode is in the muladhara chakra, or the root chakra. Sadhviji shares with us the mantra for Maa Shailaputri, how to connect with Her in our hearts and lives, and how to be free of shumbha, or I-ness – the first form of Ego.