DEVIPURAM AMMA JATARAS — Festivals of the Living Goddess and the Body of Consciousness

Guruji:

Devi-puram means the body of Consciousness. Devipuram is the body of every living being, including you, me and all. It is also a place between Anakapalle and Sabbavaram where a great temple is made for Devi to live with Her family.

Amma is the mother of all.

Before she is an adult, she is a virgin Baala.
After marriage, She cleanses Herself and makes Ganesha to remove obstacles for creation.
She assembles your body in Her womb combining Her red blood ovum and white seed of Her spouse.
These seeds are made of earth, water, fire, air, space.

She is called Gouri.
She nourishes and protects you against harmful beings and diseases with Her milk, a white form of blood.
She is called Shyama.
She educates you and makes you an adult.
Then she is called Kali or Koli.

Finally She is always sporting with Her lover Shiva.

We celebrate Her gift of life with gratitude in Her devotion, loving Her through a MAD ecstasy of Music, Art and Dance festivals.

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Meaning of Jatara

Jatara means a festival.

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Five Jataras Every Year

1. Baala Jatara
   Before and after Guru Pournami, because our Guru is Balaji, a virgin form of Amma.

2. Ganesh Jatara
   Around Ganapati Navaratris to remove self imposed obstacles to creativity and procreation.

3. Durga Puja Time
   During Sharada Navaratris – 10 days.

4. Shyama and Koli
   Remaining Aswija masam
   (Koli is short for Kola mukhi or Varahi)

5. Amma in Sri Chakra
   Kartikam, Pushya masam.

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Common Steps for All Festivals

1. Draw the yantra of Baala, Ganesha, Durga, Shyama, Koli, and Amma.

2. Decorate yantras with short (1 meter) poles and decorate seats for people.

3. Seat people – virgins, singles, couples – to energy centers in yantras.

4. Invoke 100 jeevakalas to all seated Gods / goddesses. Give panchamrit. TK1

5. Invoke Amma’s life into each participant. Do puja to all limbs, 16u puja. TK2

6. Do puja with flowers and gandha pushpa akshatas with LS, Khadgamala. TK3

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Cultural Program

Then organize songs, skits with social themes, and dance by all.
The function concludes with arati and naivedya prasadams.

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Meaning of Amma Puja

The idea of Amma puja is to recognize that fun and spirituality go together.

Devi is life itself; she is best appreciated by loving life, and creating new life forms of people organizing and working together as one life, with a purpose of enhancing quality of life for every one in the organization.

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Three Parts of This Activity

1. Lose individual identity in group identity.

2. Develop group consciousness, a sense of belonging to the group.
   Every one is called Amma; together they become Baala, Ganapati, Shyama, Koli, or Amma.

3. Each yantra is self organizing; only information through web feeding it.

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It all starts from Devipuram, a place near Anakapalle, circles the world and comes back to Devipuram.
Devipuram is the new name for a new united world.

Amrita-Ananda
(Nonstop Entertainment)