Shakti Avahan: Invocation of the Divine Mother

Part of the definitive spiritual practices collection by the Bihar School of Yoga, this text records a core three-year collective sadhana initiated at Ganga Darshan. It focuses on worshiping the peace-bestowing cosmic goddess, transforming ritualistic chanting into a rigorous science of sound vibration.

The core teachings are drawn from Swami Sivananda (the grand-guru) and Swami Satyananda Saraswati, two towering pioneers who decoded esoteric tantric rituals into safe, therapeutic sciences for modern society. The material was structuralized by Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati, who leads the Munger tradition and is globally celebrated for presenting complex, sacred Sanskrit architectures in highly organized, logical, and practical English workflows.

The book details the underlying meaning, pronunciation, and sequence of invocatory mantras, specifically highlighting the thousand names of Ma Katyayani (Katyayani Sahasranama), protective stotrams, and daily fire ceremonies (havan). It explains that human minds are heavily bound to sensory limitations, but by raising your energy to align with universal Shakti, negative, self-destructive patterns are dissolved. The book functions as an experiential guide to balancing universal consciousness with kinetic internal energy.