Durga Mantra Chanted by Umesh Guruji

A mantra to Mother Durga, the goddess of power, courage and protection. Here Umesh Guruji chants it in Varanasi in a fast, fiery rhythm, again and again: you can simply listen, or chant along with him.

The heart of the chant: the Navarna mantra

The chant is built on the Navarna mantra, the nine-syllable mantra of Durga in her form as Chamunda:

ॐ ऐं ह्रीं क्लीं चामुण्डायै विच्चे

Om aim hrim klim chamundayai vichche

Umesh adds more seed sounds and the words jwala, jwala, prajwala: flame, blaze, blaze up. The power is called to burn inside, stronger and stronger.

Durga mantra meaning

Aim, hrim and klim are bija, seed sounds: they have no meaning to translate, they work as vibration. Chamunda is the fierce face of Durga. For Umesh Guruji, Durga is the energy you go to when you need power, confidence and protection: when you feel weak or afraid, or when there is bad energy around you. In her ceremony people offer red flowers, because red gives courage. He explains the many faces of the one divine power in the lesson Hindu Gods.

How to chant it

Many times, in the same rhythm, feeling the fire grow inside. A mantra is the same positive vibration repeated again and again.