18 SHAKTIPEETAS

About Me

I am a house wife graduated from Himachal Pradesh. During my college days i was actually involved in elecution compitions and dramatics for which i have won several awards. 

As i am born in a religiously and spiritually strong family from the holy place of India Himachal Pradesh,my belief and interest in spirituality things drove me to make a documentary on 18 shaktipeetas.

About Shaktipeetas

The Shakti peetas (holy places of cosmic power) are places of worship consecrated to the goddess 'Shakti', the female principal of Hinduism and the main deity of the Shakta sect. They are sprinkled throughout the Indian subcontinent.
This goddess is often associated both with Gowr?/Parvati, the benevolent goddess of harmony, marital felicity and longevity, with Durga, goddess of strength and valour, and with Mahakali, goddess of destruction of the evil.

History

 There was a great king called Daksha Prajapati who was son of Lord Brahma. He had 27 daughters and Sati devi is one among them. Sati devi got married to Lord Shiva. When Dashka entered the arena of a yaga performed by Agni, every one except Lord Shiva stood up as a mark of respect. Daksha felt insulted by Lord Shiva's behaviour. Later when Daksha conducted a yaga him self , he did not invite his daughter and his son in law.Though Sati felt bad because of the non invitation, she wanted to attend the yaga against the wish of Lord Shiva.When Sati, attended the yaga no body has cared for her and she felt insulted by the actions of her sisters and parents. Then when her father started abusing her husband she could not control her feelings and scarified herself at the place of yagna by creating agni from earth with her right thumb of her foot.Knowing this Lord Shiva removed one bunch of Jhatha from his head and hit it on the earth. From that Lord Veerabhadra has born and rushed to yaga spot and killed Daksha by cutting his head. Later Shiva went to the spot and taken the body of sati from the fire and started dancing with it. The world was terrorized from this Tandava Nritya and to stop this Nritya, Vishnu used his Sudarshan chakra and completely cut the Sati's body in to pieces. These body parts have fallen at various places in India and Srilanka. Where ever these parts have fallen the places are called Shaktipeethas. There are 18 such places and they are called Ashta(8) Dasa (10) Shaktipeethas.But some people say there are 51 shakti peethas and some say there are 108 shakti peethas.But according to Adi Sankaracharya Ashtadasa Shakti peethas ( 18 Shakti Temples / Temples of Mother Goddess) are major are also called Maha Shakti peetas which are 18 located in India Nepal and Pakistan.

The list of Shaktipeetas

The Documentary

This documentary will be shot in all the real 18 Shaktipeetas with tremendous research and hard work with the support of  the indian film technicians including my husbond.  This  is a a non-profit documentary aiming to educate and bring valuable knowledge to the people about 18 Shaktipeetas.

The Plan

The research is already being done.And scriping is in progress.The shoot will begin in November and the progress 

shall be posted on our facebook page website.

The film will sent to international festivals in April 2016.

The video release is in may 2016.

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