Remarkable Journey of Chandi Path by Swami Satyananda Saraswati

What a trip this Chandi sadhana has been! It is currently the year 2024, and once again we got a Team together to help update and upgrade our literary offerings, especially our new materials, insights, and studies of the Chandi Path, our Apps and our website!
It has been 50 years since our first officially registered edition of the Chandi was published in 1974. I had been chanting, studying, and translating the Chandi since the late 1960s, and even published a few local iterations in India before we got personal computers in the 1980s. One edition was published in Birbhum, West Bengal, and the other in Rishikesh, in Northern India. I had performed Sahasra Chandi Yajnas in both locations while I was translating, six years of chanting the Chandi every day, three years in each location. In total I have done it seven times, 21 years of chanting and studying Chandi in various ways through many resources.
I made some additions and corrections to these publications in 1981, and added some more new material in 2001, when we first began digital publications, and again in 2019, when we submitted our books for print on demand.
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Then we started working on the Samasti Chandi Bijamantratmaka and the Tantra Durga Saptashati Guhyabijavali, and spent the next few years sitting for 16 to 18 hours a day, chanting the entire book in one asana, sometimes backwards and forwards (siddha-ulta path), and many of you can attest to the glorious feeling that comes from what is called “Long Asana Sadhana,” where we sit in one asana and continue chanting with pranayama throughout the day and as much as we can in the night. We posted some articles and videos and interviews about several of those experiences on our website at shreemaa.org/long-asana-sadhana.
As a result of this focus of my attention, our website and many of our Apps failed to keep up with system upgrades and current standards, and then the Apps didn’t work properly with newer tablets, and we could not post properly to the website.
A few months ago Nanda and Pallavi reconstituted a new Team, and while Abhyuday has been working on the Apps, Siddhartha and Munmun headed up the Web Development, and Kumari and Paramananda were working on the server issues. Rudra helped type and translate the Sanskrit, and our first new publication is this 1344 page collection of So Many Things Related to Chandi in Devanagari, Roman, with an English translation.
This particular book contains:
Chandi Path in Sanskrit Roman English
Sanskrit Only Chandi Path
Chandi Yajna Paddhoti in Sanskrit Roman English -
How to perform the Sacred Fire Ceremony
Samasti Chandi Bijamantratmaka
Sanskrit Tantra Durgā Saptashati
Tantra Bijamantratmaka
Tantra Durgā Roman Transliteration
Tantra Durgā English Translation
Bīja Mantras - by Chapter
Bīja Mantras - Alphabetical Order
śrīcaṇḍikā navākṣarī triśatī stotram and namavali Sanskrit Roman English
śrīcaṇḍikā navākṣarī triśatī stotram and namavali Sanskrit Only
So it contains a number of different ways we can chant the Chandi Path along with their translations in English, and I am sure that in the future, devotees will come along to help us put these into other languages as well. On our website we already have Bengali, Devanagari, Dutch, Hindi, Portuguese, Roman, Spanish, Tamil, and Telugu, available for free download at www.shreemaa.org/books-in-oth....
Those are the administrative issues I wanted to cover and a short history of the evolution of our Chandi studies, how we moved from sitting in worship for fifteen minutes a day, and rose up to 16-18 hours a day as our sadhana grew.
Now I wish to describe what these works do, how they work, and most importantly what we feel because of making this the core teaching of our life style.
Many of you already know the story of the Chandi. We call Her, “She Who Tears Apart Thoughts”.

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This is so beautiful!!! Hope to be a part of one of these some day. Jai Ma Durga!!! Har Har Mahadev!!! ❤️❤️❤️🕉️🕉️🕉️🔯🔯🔯