NAVRATRA SPECIAL 5: Empower the Goddess within to end the ego's obstinate reign

Long ago, there existed a devil named Mahishasur. Baba ji tells that devil and angels co-exist in a person in the form of their emotions. If the collective consciousness has anger and hatred pent up in it, then Mahishasur will evolve. On the contrary, if it is devotion and love that occupy greatest share of the mindscape of the majority, then the positivity associated with Goddess Durga subdues the negativity of Mahishasur. After being dethroned from heaven, Indra took the refuge of the divine trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh, who invoked the Goddess to end the terror reign of Mahishasur. The Goddess was bestowed with the weapons of all Gods and angels. Upon being empowered in such a manner, she roared such that the sound echoed across the universe. Hearing such an unprecedentedly fierce war cry, a fearful Mahisasur, rushed his army towards the direction of the roar. As the hordes of Mahishasur's personnel took turns to attack the Goddess, she pummeled them with unseemly ease. Thus, the most courageous but evil-natured Mahisasur and his army were destroyed by the Goddess.
Mahishasur is the personification of the vice of 'ego' which is the root cause of all the troubles afflicting us. It is as deceptive as Mahishasur. Just as he deceives the Goddess repeatedly, firstly by bombarding his army of devils at the Goddess, then manifesting himself as buffalo, lion, elephant and again a buffalo before finally being killed by her trishul, the ego in us takes various forms.
The recital of the verses of Durga Saptashati enables a person to free himself from the pain caused by the ego as the goddess resides in each particle and activates herself only when the person so desires.