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Universal
Energy as Mother
“The
Saktas worship the Universal Energy as Mother; it is the
sweetest name they know. The mother is the highest ideal of
womanhood in India. When God is worshiped as mother, the
Hindus call such worship the "right hand" way, and it leads
to spirituality but never to material prosperity. When God
is worshipped in His terrible aspect, that is, in the "left
hand" way it leads usually to great material prosperity but
rarely to spirituality; and eventually it leads to
degeneration and the obliteration of the race that practices
it.
Mother is the first manifestation of power and is considered
a higher idea than father. The name of mother brings the
idea of sakti, Divine energy and omnipotence, the baby
believes its mother to be all-powerful, to be able to do
anything. The Divine Mother is the Kundalini sleeping in us;
without worshipping Her we can never know ourselves. All
merciful, all powerful, omnipresent - these are attributes
of the Divine Mother. She is the sum total of the energy in
the Universe. Every manifestation of power in the universe
is Mother. She is Life, She is Intelligence, She is Love.
She is in the universe, yet separate from it. She is a
person, and can be seen and known- as Sri Ramakrishna saw
and knew Her. Established in the idea of Mother, we can do
anything. She quickly answers prayer.
She can show Herself to us in any form at any moment. The
Divine Mother can have form (Rupa) and name (Nama), or name
without form; and as we worship Her in these various
aspects, we can rise to Pure Being, having neither form nor
name.
The sum-total of all cells in an organism is one person;
each soul is like one cell, and the sum of them is God. And
beyond that is the Absolute. The sea calm is the Absolute;
the same sea in Waves is the Divine Mother. She is time,
space and causation. Mother is the same as Brahman and has
two natures; the conditioned and the unconditioned. As the
former She is God, nature and soul- the triangle of
existence. This is the Visishtadvaita idea.
A bit of Mother, a drop, was Krishna; another Buddha;
another was Christ. The worship of even one spark of Mother
in our earthly mother leads to greatness. Worship Her if you
want love and wisdom.”
Swami Vivekananda, Inspired Talks, July 2, 189
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