Yoga's Divine Mother

“The Gnostic Gospels lay suppressed for 19 centuries after the time of Christ, when they were created – from, in part, Christ's teachings. Upon their discovery in 1945, researchers found amazing verses attributed to Sophia, the Great Mother. "I am the Invisible One within the All. I am immeasurable, ineffable, yet whenever I wish, I shall reveal myself of my own accord…It is I who am hiding within radiant waters. It is through me that Gnosis (a knowing) comes forth. I am the real Voice."

This statement closely reflects the ancient spiritual science of yoga, in which the Godhead always has worn two crowns – Heavenly Father and Divine Mother. The presence of the divine feminine, or Divine Mother, is so central and essential to yoga and its religious offshoot, Hinduism, that it would be impossible to conceive of yoga without it. Just as it was probably impossible for Jesus Christ and the men and women apostles who followed him to imagine that their teachings on the Divine Feminine would remain hidden for 19 centuries. . . .

Paramhansa Yogananda, the yoga master who authored Autobiography of a Yogi (the best-selling yoga book in history besides The Bhagavad Gita) and established ashrams and teachings in the United States during the first half of the 20th century, sang a chant to his devotees: "Engrossed is the bee of my mind/on the blue lotus feet of my Divine Mother." The "blue lotus feet" refers to Gaia. The lotus also refers to the astral image of the crown chakra – "thousand-petaled lotus." So, the crown and the earth connect within Divine Mother. Like all spiritual masters who had one foot on earth and the other in the etheric realm and beyond, Yogananda married the eternal masculine and the divine feminine within his being. As yoga clearly demonstrates, it is the way of balance, spiritual growth and attunement with Divine Source.”

Bob Yehling, www.sierradovecenter.com

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