"What Do You Mean By 'Primordial Mother'?"
Maha-padmatavi-samstha [59th]: She dwells in the Great Lotus Forest. This means She dwells in Sahasrara. According to Arunopanisad inside this ‘Lotus Flower’ is the point of contact between the individual and Cosmic Consciousness.
When asked what was happening to his son Kash, the Sahaja Yogi who had given him Self-Realization could only speculate that he might have reached the Primordial Mother. Kash's father had no idea what he meant and asked: "What do you mean by primordial mother?"
The Sahaja Yogi explained that there is a Great Divine Mother who is the Ultimate Reality beyond all that is known and unknown to humans. Throughout the ages She is credited to have been the Great Adi Shakti or Supreme Power of God Almighty, but very little actually known about Her. Others are of the same opinion:
"Far too little is known about the Divine Mother of the Universe and what little of this is available comes to us in the form of either scriptural references couched in archaic language or contemporary representations of the Divine Mother emphasizing limited concepts which concern arcane metaphysics or the worship of nature and the elements. Whereas neither of these interpretations are objectionable, each presenting a portion of the picture of what She embodies, it is time, especially in this auspicious day and age when the Avatar of Durga/Kali, Sri Ramakrishna, has appeared in our midst, to offer up a more comprehensive rendering of Her all-pervasive presence and all-enthralling appearance.
In such an undertaking, we must naturally part company with those who maintain that the infinite Mother of the Universe is merely an anthropomorphic goddess, merely a nature spirit, merely a universal power, merely a concept or a symbol for Reality, merely a feminine principle. Her appearance in form always springs from Her formless essence and the two are inseparable.
The five elements are only Her tools for fashioning the universe and obey Her will. She is never restricted to the physical universe alone, but instead remains fully detached yet intrinsically involved a baffling secret which only She knows how to implement. She is the living Reality underlying and animating all sentient and insentient beings and objects, perpetually existing as their very essence and is therefore the Conceiver of all concepts, the Symbol for all symbols, the eternal Subject. Finally, She is the Shakti of the gods, pure and changeless, transcendent and genderless, permeating everything with limitless Consciousness.
Throughout the three worlds She is acclaimed as the Deva Devi Svarupaya, the essence of all gods and goddesses the ancient, primordial Mother of the Universe whose nature is non-dual Truth. This ever-present Goddess epitomizes both the bliss of unlimited Awareness, static and supine, and the diverse play of universal projection, dynamic and fascinating. She manifests countless beings abiding in an infinite set of worlds, seen and unseen, gross and subtle, hidden and exposed.
Her existence is confirmed by the holy scriptures since She is perceived intellectually by means of the six Darshanas, Her perpetually flowing streams of eternal spiritual knowledge. She is approached and contacted by the devotees through intense sadhana spiritual disciplines prescribed by the guru and She is intimately accessible through contemplation and meditation. Ultimately, She is to be realized as the essence of limitless Consciousness, infinite, indivisible, all-pervading and Absolute.
Eternal salutations to Sri Durga, to Sri Kali, the boundless ocean of spiritual Wisdom worshiped as the Divine Mother of the Universe!" 1
So how was Kash's father to verify if the Woman that his son had met in his Sahasrara during meditation was indeed the Great Primordial Mother, the Divine Mother of the Universe?
It did not take long to find a foolproof solution.
The most reliable way would be for Kash to ask Her to take him to visit the various deities, prophets and messengers of different religions. The father knew his son knew nothing of Hinduism. If this Mother had the Power to take him to visit the Messengers of God and Kash able to describe them, then they could doubt neither him nor Her any longer. After all, how would a 13 year-old kid be able to describe facts absolutely beyond his knowledge?
Over the next few weeks Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi took Kash to see every Messenger of God that he desired to see. The father was filled with awe and reverence for the Great Adi Shakti and Her Divine Deities.
This news could not be kept a secret.
That this state of mind was attained by a mere child without any religious/spiritual background, preparation or effort was an astounding evolutionary breakthrough, to say the least. That a young kid on his very first attempt achieved it was overwhelming and mind-boggling. Something phenomenal had happened and his father was bursting to contain this spectacular spiritual secret.
Someone had to be told, someone who would believe.
In December 1993, he typed a letter and faxed it from Montreal to Accosec Consultants Sdn. Bhd., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was addressed to the three individuals closest to him — Vipin Kumar Kothari (closest friend and partner in Accosec Consultants Senderian Berhad), B.S. Maan (brother attached to University Hospital, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia), and Srender Kaur (spouse on vacation). They would surely believe what was taking place.
The fact that these individuals were the first to be told about the mystical experiences of Kash goes a long way to confirm the authenticity of these initial divine Revelations, and all subsequent events, in Shri Adi Shakti: The Kingdom of God. This is because at that time Kash’s father was far from confirming the link between the eternal spiritual Adi Shakti in Kash’s Sahasrara with the transitory, physical Adi Shakti Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi on Earth.
It actually took him nearly one year to be 100% sure that these two personalities were one and the same. This delay was caused by his constant cross-examinations, the slightest doubt triggering off a chain of questions.
The contents of the fax below is irrefutable proof that neither Kash nor his father had any idea as to what was actually taking place on Earth.
This is page 2 of fax sent to Mr. Vipin Kumar December 1993 at his firm Accosec Consultants Sdn. Bhd. K.L., Malaysia (fax no: 011603 2328 504);
(page 2 of original 1993 letter
"he describes the following:-
1) Lord Krishna
— He is blue in color.
2) Lord Shiva
— He lives far out in the Universe in a Land completely different from ours.
— He is surrounded by mountains and He sits on the highest one.
— He has a cobra snake around His neck. The cobra snake is coiled 3 times round His neck, with its head on Lord Shiva's right shoulder.
— He has His hair tied up in a bundle on top of the head, with the rest of it falling down His neck and shoulders.
— He is holding a trishul, with another cobra coiled around it.
— There are 2 bowls on both His sides and there is smoke coming out of them.
— On one occasion Kash saw both Lord Shiva and Lord Krishna walking away after meditation and talking to each other in a language that was like the mantra he recited in i.e. Sanskrit.
3) Lord Hanuman
We just told Kash after about a week to go and meditate with Lord Hanuman but never told him what he looked like. We just mentioned the name Hanuman to him and told him to ask Mother to take him there. When he came back from the meditation after about 1/2 an hour, he told us that he saw a baby-face God. Not satisfied with Kash's answer, I later asked him to describe what he saw. Again he said he saw a baby-face God. When I told him that it could have been a monkey-face God, he immediately said it was. Kash explained that he did not want to offend us by saying that God looked like a monkey. Then he said the following:
— that Lord Hanuman has a monkey face.
— that Lord Hanuman has a tail.
— that Lord Hanuman has wings like an angel.
— that Lord Hanuman was flying around in the air.
4) Lord Ganesha
— Kash had to go through a black hole to reach Lord Ganesha and came upon another world.
— that he felt very nice after crossing the black hole and approaching His world.
— Kash then saw an open-air temple with 4 pillars and a roof, but with no walls around.
— he saw Lord Ganesha meditating in the middle.
— he saw pictures of Mother, Lord Ganesha, Lord Shiva and Lord Krishna around Him.
— that Lord Ganesha has an elephant face.
— that He has 4 arms. He was meditating with 2 arms while 1 hand held a bowl from which smoke was coming out.
— that there was a mouse sitting beside Him.
— that His body was greyish in colour.
— that He has a big belly.
5) Lord Vishnu and Mahalakshmi
— that Mahalakshmi has a ring in Her nose and a tikka on Her forehead.
— that She has 4 arms.
— that She was wearing a pink coloured sari.
— that Lord Vishnu has 4 arms and in one of His hands there is a big seashell (sankh or conch.)
— that there is a 6 headed snake (Shri Shesha) standing and covering both of them.
— that there is mist emitting from around.
I don't think you guys will be able to believe all this, but better do, as I am a very skeptical person — I never before have believed anything to do with Hinduism before, given the odd-looking deities around. However since Kash has seen all of them in his meditation and has described with such clarity about deities which he has never seen before, I now believe He exists and is the Creator. Whenever Kash comes out of meditation, his face glows and his eyes radiate with bliss. He now meditates at 6:30 a.m. in the morning as well in the evening. I would want this information not to be told to every Tom, Dick or Harry — only to those who have some believe in God.
So all of you down there — I have to end here. I hope my requests can be taken care of. Please send your message via fax as it would be too expensive to talk over the phone. That is all for the time being. Take care and send my regards to all.
Yours truly,
(Jagbir Singh)
* Kash will be visiting other deities soon. You will all be kept informed of his journeys."
Note: "Ganesha or Ganapati as he is more commonly known s the most worshipped god in India, though he may not be the most popular. Now that is only apparently a paradox. Ganesha holds a unique position in the religious culture of India, a position that has no parallel in any other religion.
Any ceremony, ritual, puja or new undertaking has to begin with invoking the power of Ganapati first, otherwise it is regarded as futile. Hence he is worshipped almost constantly round the clock as it were, though he may not be the ishta devta, the chosen personal god of the person so worshipping.
In the late 20th century however, Ganapati has suddenly become one of the five most important deities actually in popular worship, and collecting images of Ganapati in various materials became a popular hobby in its own right independent of any religious feeling.
Ganapati is however not a Vedic god, not by any means. The tradition that he has to be invoked before anything is commenced is hardly two thousand years old, if that, and it has become set as an unchallenged rule for only about a thousand years.
Ganapati is a pauranic god, a god always of the common people and the artisans who delighted on sculpting and painting such an incongruity, such a resolution of paradox. For he is neither animal nor human, being more like the gods of ancient Egypt than anything in the usual Hindu tradition. He is not beautiful in any conventional sense, quite the contrary, yet every Hindu feels a surge of affection when he gazes upon this clearly impossible figure. That Ganapati has been a successful Indian export is not so well known, but from Afghanistan to Japan, you can find ancient idols that testify to his peculiar popularity. Burma, Cambodia, Java, China, Vietnam, wherever the Hindus traveled, so too did their beloved Vighneshwara, the destroyer of obstacles." 2
"This god of knowledge and the remover of obstacles is also the older son of Lord Shiva. Lord Ganesha is also called Vinayak (knowledgeable) or Vighneshwer (god to remove obstacles). He is worshipped, or at least remembered, in the beginning of any auspicious performance for blessings and auspiciousness.
He has four hands, elephant's head and a big belly. His vehicle is a tiny mouse. In his hands he carries a rope (to carry devotees to the truth), an axe (to cut devotees' attachments), and a sweet dessert ball -laddoo- (to reward devotees for spiritual activity). His fourth hand's palm is always extended to bless people.
A unique combination of his elephant-like head and a quick moving tiny mouse vehicle represents tremendous wisdom, intelligence, and presence of mind." (www.umich.edu)
Kash was also repeatedly asked whether he was sure that there was a mouse beside Shri Ganesha. He insisted there was and had even seen this mouse standing on its hind legs. Yet, the mind still refused to believe. What did a mouse and one of the most revered of Deities have in common? In the first place, what was a mouse doing in the Spiritual World?
Although Kash could give no answer to these logical questions, he steadfastly stood by what he saw.
Only after checking at the Saul Bellow Library, Lachine, Montreal, did his father's mind settle down. The Encyclopaedia Britannica confirmed the presence of a mouse as a vehicle of Shri Ganesha.
Note: A scene from the Ramayana, the story of King Rama, who probably lived in the 8th century B.C. The original epic is ascribed to the sage Valmiki, who lived in the 2nd century B.C. Rama was later included among the incarnations of Vishnu. Shown here is Hanuman, the monkey god, a friend of Rama, one of the most popular characters of Indian mythology. The legend holds that during the war with Ravana, the demon king of Ceylon, a plant with special medicinal properties was needed to treat Rama's younger brother. Hanuman went to the mountains to search for the plant, but since he was unable to identify that particular plant, he is shown here lifting the entire mountain to bring it over to the physician." (www.wsu.edu/)
"Hanuman is one of the seven Chiranjivis. He was the only learned scholar who knew the nine Vyakaranas. He learnt the Sastras from the sun-god. He was the wisest of the wise, strongest of the strong and bravest of the brave. He was the Sakti of Rudra. He who meditates on him and repeats his name attains power, strength, glory, prosperity and success in life. He is worshipped in all parts of India, particularly in Maharashtra.
He was born at the most auspicious hour of the morning of the 8th of the Lunar month, Chaitra, at 4 o'clock on the most blessed day, Tuesday. He had the power to assume any form he liked; to swell his body to an enormous extent and to reduce it to the length of a thumb. His strength was superhuman. He was the terror of Rakshasas. He was well versed in the four Vedas and other sacred books. His valour, wisdom, knowledge of the scriptures and superhuman strength attracted everybody who came near him. He had extraordinary skill in warfare." 3
Kash had actually said that Shri Hanuman was flying around in the air as if He had wings. The conditioned mind of his father, having seen drawings of winged Christian angels, thought he meant that Shri Hanuman had wings and wrote so. Later Kash clarified that Shri Hanuman had no wings but still could fly and hover around. (This fact was later corroborated by his brother Arwinder who, among other feats, witnessed a wingless Shri Hanuman flying and hovering around in the air.)
This misconception of angels requiring bird-like wings to fly has the apparent influence of ancient Near Eastern religions; for example the winged spirits of Mesopotamian belief. In all of his mystical journeys into his Sahasrara Kash has never seen anyone having wings.
who floats on the cosmic waters. 7th
Century, Balaju, Nepal. ACSAA
Color Slide Project, University of
Michigan. Photo by Barbara Wagner.
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Note: “The sayana-murti is the most common Visnu image in South India. Visnu is represented as resting on Sesa, the world-snake, attended by Sri and often also by Bhumi . . . He represents the highest bliss, the state of absorption of everything in him; through his darsana one obtains highest bliss; It is the presentation of Vishnu in Vaikuntha. The snake itself is a highly symbolic figure in Vaisnavism; though it is the enemy of Garuda, it is also the symbol for eternal life and immortality, of secret power and mystery. The association of the serpent with the water is also very meaningful: water is the primeval element, the source of everything." 4
Nearly two years later on October 29, 1995, at 10:45 a.m. Kash was again asked to describe Shri Shesha on whose coils he had sat together with Shri Mataji, Shri Vishnu and Shri Lakshmi. His father wanted information on the number of heads.
He again replied that there were 6 heads (see first fax) and that the middle head was larger than the rest. He was requested to state the number of smaller heads on either side, that is, whether two on left or right of middle head, and the remaining three on the either side.
Kash closed his eyes to recollect what he had witnessed in the past. Realizing that all the while he had not counted the larger middle head he admitted that Shri Shesha indeed is seven-headed, with three smaller heads on either side of the larger middle one.
QUOTES OF SHRI MATAJI
"To say you must meditate, people think it’s a kind of a ritual or maybe a kind of a style of Sahaja Yoga. No. Meditation is for you to go deep down into yourself, to achieve all that your Sahasrara wants to give you. To achieve that height of detachment, of understanding, is only through meditation.
So what happens in meditation is that your awareness crosses over Agnya, goes above and is now stationed in the Sahasrara in thoughtless awareness. Then the Reality of Sahasrara, the Beauty of Sahasrara starts pouring in your own character, in your own temperament. Unless and until you meditate — not meditate just to get well or just to feel that I must meditate — but meditation is very important for all of you, that you develop your Sahasrara in such a manner that you imbibe the beauty of your Sahasrara. If you don’t use your Sahasrara in this way, after some time you’ll find Sahasrara will close down, you’ll have no vibrations and you’ll have no understanding of yourself.
So very, very important thing is to meditate. . . Meditation is the only way you can enrich yourself with the beauty of Reality. There’s no other way. I cannot find, any other way but meditation by which you rise into the Realm of Divinity. . . .
To get to the inner side of yourself, the subtler side of your being, you must allow the Kundalini to go through the Agnya. To cross the Agnya is a very important thing in modern times and for that you have to meditate. If you can meditate with complete faith in yourself, this Agnya can be opened up with surrendering to the Divine. You have to surrender yourself to the Divine and when this Agnya opens, you’ll be amazed, your Sahasrara is just waiting to transfer to give you all the help that you need through the All-Pervading Power. Your connection of the Sahasrara with the All-Pervading Power is established and, by that, you’ll be amazed how all these seven Chakras work for you, how they help you, how they try to give you whatever is the Real Knowledge about everything.
This Real Knowledge that you get is very Joy-giving. You can see this Real Knowledge in everything. You don’t have to start reading any book about it. In every situation and every person, in every flower, in every natural happening you see clearly the Hand of the Divine. . .
The greatest thing happens to you that you become a global personality. So you start seeing the problem of every country, of every other nation where they have problems. But these problems, when you see, you don’t see like other people because others may like to use it for their own purpose, maybe for media, maybe for something. What you want to see is that these problems are solved. . . .
So your Sahasrara is extremely important. You must meditate to enrich your Sahasrara, to cure it, to make it completely nourished by the Kundalini. There’s no need to do many rituals, but meditation and also little bit of taking bandhan, even now today, is necessary I think when you go out because still Kali Yuga is working its own pangs and the Satya Yuga is trying to come on. We are the ones who are going to support, look after the Satya Yuga and that’s why the Sahasrara opening is very, very important.
It’s very important and those who want to grow should meditate every day. Whatever time you may come home, maybe in the morning, maybe in the evening, any time, but you will know you are meditating when you can get into thoughtless awareness. Then you will know. Your reaction will be zero. Look at some thing, you’ll just look at it. You won’t react because you are thoughtless. You won’t react. When that reaction is not there, then everything you’ll be surprised is Divine because reaction is your Agnya’s problem.
Once you are absolutely thoughtlessly aware you’re one with the Divine, so much so that Divine takes over every activity, every moment of your life and looks after it and you feel completely secured, one with the Divine and enjoy the blessings of the Divine. May God bless you."
Shri Maha-padmatavi-samstha Devi
Sahasrara Day Puja, Cabella, Italy — May 10, 1998
Maha-padmatavi-samstha [59th]: She dwells in the Great Lotus Forest. This means She dwells in Sahasrara. (See 21st Sloka of Saun. Lah.) According to Arunopanisad inside this ‘Lotus Flower’ is the point of contact between the individual and Cosmic Consciousness.
ADDITIONAL QUOTES
"Many forms of meditation incorporate the knowledge of what is called the Kundalini energy, as well as the existence of seven chakras, or energy centers, that can be located in the spine from the base up to the pituitary gland. The Kundalini energy, or force, can be induced to rise up from the base of the spine. As it ascends the spine, it can help to awaken the various chakras, including the pituitary gland, which is often referred to as the spiritual eye. This force can be felt as a swirling, vortexial motion. It is often experienced as heat, and, if the spiritual eye is open, it can be perceived by the inner vision as flames, seemingly rising up from the center of the earth. Accordingly, it is associated with Mother Earth or Divine Mother, the feminine manifestation of I Am That I Am."
The Mystical Marriage
solarlogosfoundation.org
"Manifestations of Her glory show in power of immeasurable might,
Throughout the universe, powers that swell the sea of birth and death,
Forces that change and break up the Unchanged and changed again.
Lo! Where shall we seek refuge, save in Her?"
Swami Vivekananda, Hymn to the Divine Mother
"Cosmic Consciousness.
One of the best things that the New Age has given me is the awareness that we don’t have to have all the answers. Even as we struggle to understand the big questions of life and Earth, we can expand our consciousness into what the psychologist Abraham Maslow called "the further reaches of human nature." When Maslow wrote about consciousness in the late ‘60s, people were exploring the farthest reaches of their own natures through meditation, prayer, yoga, psychedelic drugs, dreamwork, shamanic journeying, and other spiritual practices that placed value on non-ordinary reality and altered states of consciousness. These experiments awakened our reverence for the sacred and brought a sense of enchantment to our relationship to the mundane."
New Age Journal
"My Mother is the principle of consciousness. She is akhanda satchidananda; indivisible Reality, Awareness, and Bliss. The night sky between the stars is perfectly black. The waters of the ocean depths are the same. The infinite is always mysteriously dark. This inebriating darkness is my beloved Kali...."
"Reality with attributes, saguna Brahman, has been unanimously declared by the Vedas, Puranas, and Tantras to be Mahakali, the primordial energy of awareness. Her Energy is like the rays of the sun. The original sun is attributeless Reality, nirguna Brahman, boundless Awareness alone. Proceed to the Original through its Radiance. Awaken to non-dual Reality through Mother Kali. She holds the key."
Sri Ramakrishna
Great Swan, Lex Hixon, p.184
"True tantra yoga is a pure path, but it has been abused by some self-proclaimed adherents. Tantra yoga is not concerned with sexuality, but with the creative force and transmuting this energy into higher channels. Sometimes self-styled teachers have misconstrued the symbolism of tantra yoga into sex practices for men and women.
Rather, the goal of tantra yoga is to awaken and harmonize the male and female aspects within each person in order to spiritually awaken and realize the whole universe as an expression of the Cosmic Mother, the divine life force, or Spirit."
Tantra Yoga [http://www.yogaworld.org/
REFERNCES
1. Sarada Vivekananda Ramakrishna [http://www.srv.org/mother.html]
2. Pannir, Hanuman, The Wise Trickster [http://www.swarthmore.edu/]
3. Ganesha, The Elephant Headed God [www.indiayogi.com/]
4. K. K. Klostermaier, Hinduism: A Short History, Oneworld Pub., 2000, p. 120
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