नन्दगोपगृहे जाता (देवी की भावी अवतार-भविष्यवाणी) — Benefits & How to Chant
नन्दगोपगृहे जाता (देवी की भावी अवतार-भविष्यवाणी)
Complete guide to chanting correctly for maximum benefit
Benefits of Chanting नन्दगोपगृहे जाता (देवी की भावी अवतार-भविष्यवाणी)
Reveals the origin of the Devi's beloved forms
Vindhyavasini, Raktadantika, Shatakshi and Shakambhari
Affirms the Mother's eternal promise to descend whenever demonic forces or great calamity arise
Recited as Shakambhari/Shatakshi prayer for relief from famine, drought and scarcity
Invokes the nourishing aspect of the Goddess who sustains all beings with food from her own body
Strengthens faith that the divine Mother repeatedly incarnates to protect dharma
Especially chanted during Shakambhari Navratri and at Vindhyavasini and Shakambhari shrines
How to Chant नन्दगोपगृहे जाता (देवी की भावी अवतार-भविष्यवाणी)
Instructions
Recite before an image of the Devi (especially Shakambhari or Vindhyavasini) after lighting a lamp. Chant slowly, contemplating each promised form of the Mother. These verses are part of the eleventh chapter of the Durga Saptashati; for relief from want and scarcity, devotees particularly meditate on the Shakambhari and Shatakshi portions, offering vegetables, fruits and greens to the Goddess.
Spiritual Significance
It is said that when a terrible hundred-year drought once parched the earth and the sages prayed, the Goddess appeared as Shakambhari, weeping a hundred eyes of compassion (Shatakshi) and bringing forth fruits, roots and greens from her own body to feed every starving creature until the rains returned — a deliverance devotees still invoke in times of famine and want.
Origin & History
Source: Durga Saptashati Chapter 11
Author: Sage Markandeya (Markandeya Purana)
After the gods praise the Goddess in the Narayani Stuti and she offers them a boon, they ask that she ever quell the calamities of the three worlds. In reply, the Devi foretells her future descents: as Vindhyavasini born of Yashoda to slay the reborn Shumbha and Nishumbha; as Raktadantika devouring the Viprachitti danavas; and, in a great hundred-year drought, as Shatakshi and Shakambhari, sustaining all life with herbs from her own body while destroying the demon Durgama — promising to incarnate whenever danava-born trouble arises.