#devi lakshmi

I love Radharani okay but I don't need to feel bad or wrong for feeling more connected to Lakshmi Maa. And you can have your beliefs but why go around changing stories, twisting narrative and showing the ashtabharayas as inferior or materialistic?

Krishna loves Devi Rukmini as much as Radharani and all his wives, what do you not understand?!! Gaudiya vaishnavism has glorified only the workship of Radhakrishna and it overshadowed pretty much everything else.

And I am always a bit sad and petty about what could have been, we could have had so many temples dedicated to the ashtabharayas and more stories and poetries for them, have them being known in mainstream culture but we don't and that disappoints me to no end! Heck most people don't even know who Devi Rukmini and ashtabharayas are and it saddens me, they deserves so much better!

I just love this picture of Shri Lakshmi-Narayan I found on Pinterest. Like Maa Lakshmi is standing all prim , proper and serious like the Supreme Goddess she is and then we have our beloved Lord Narayan just being like ' That's my wife , ladies and gentlemen !! My beautiful , rich and powerful girlboss of a wife !! I love her just so much !!! '

I can just imagine the conversation going on over here like :

Maa Lakshmi : Nath , we are standing here for a serious picture. Can you stand properly for like two minutes ?? 😮‍💨😮‍💨

Lord Narayan : No would do , Priye 🤭🤭 I just want to show the world how much I love my gorgeous wife , now is that a bad thing ? 🌝🌝

Devī Lakṣmī

Cover of the Srī Daivat Viśeṣāñka, special issue on Goddess Śrīdevī (Lakṣmī) of the Marāṭhī Magazine, Prasāda

Kojagori

শঙ্খ বাজিয়ে মা কে ঘরে এনেছি,

সুগন্ধি ধূপ জ্বেলে আসন পেতেছি ।

প্রদীপ জ্বেলে নিলাম তোমায় বরণ করে,

আমার এ ঘরে থাকো আলো করে ।

এসো মা লক্ষ্মী, বসো ঘরে ।

আমার এ ঘরে থাকো আলো করে ।

Shubho Lakshmi Pujo!!

Sri Yantra : महालक्ष्मी जी के यंत्र श्री यंत्र की महिमा और प्रभाव

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