Meditating on the Goddess

[Guest guest]

For a couple of years now I have been finding the Goddess in my life,

and have found my own ways of worshipping Her. I would like to share

a little of what I discovered before I knew about Goddess Shakti and

found that I didn't need to search any more. All that was lacking was

to surrender to Her and wait on Her divine will.

 

In the Beginning – if there was one – there was only the Void, which

was pure undifferentiated consciousness. The Void manifested by

assuming identity as the womb of the universe, from which the

universe was born. The process by which the Universal Mother gave

birth also gave rise to time, and since then all that is, has come

from the Goddess.

 

The Moon is our metaphor for (and from) the Goddess, the Source of

our light and energy in this life. She is the greatest reality; the

Moon in its spiritual aspect is Her appearance to us, and we are the

most ethereal and least real of Her creative work, as if we were Her

dream. Her own source is Solar energy which She transforms and

reflects in swirls and spirals down to us, calling us to Her. This

energy is received by our whole bodies, but particularly at the brain

it is absorbed and re-reflected, either in reverence or in

rebelliousness, as we will. We re-reflect, ideally, towards other

beings or circumstances as part of our Magick, to benefit them, but

rebellious types may misuse this energy to harm others. Primarily,

however, we re-reflect back to the Goddess, returning Her energy

which we transform into reverent communication. The bond between us

being thus established, She will now enter us and live in us. In

meditations, especially when I am outside contemplating the Moon, I

have felt Her entering me, sometimes from the head on down, sometimes

stepping into me and filling my space. When this happens, I can

sense the rush of lunar energy through my being, and I feel like an

open window.

 

The Goddess is the Soul of Her devotees. She lives in me, and is my

Soul. She is present where I am preconscious and presides over the

actualization of intuition and wisdom and their expression in speech,

poetry, visual arts and music. She is the Goddess of thought in

motion: I am your Mother. You were in me and you were born as my

child, and now I am in you, I am you. What I see, what I know, you

also see and know. You are the flow of creation manifest. Thou art

Goddess.

 

In a vision, I saw the Goddess standing in front of me. She looked

at me, then took one step to the left -- and to the right! --

becoming two personages – the Goddess and the God. She – He then

stepped back together, and now the God was manifest, and the Goddess

innate (manifest, innate = evident, hidden). Finally, with no

movement at all, the God receded and became innate, and by Her own

will the Goddess was manifested again, and I was made to know the

dual nature of the Goddess, with the final revelation that the God

nature when innate was an infinite distance away, and infinitely

small. So also does the God, Lord of the Sun, have the Goddess

nature innately, infinitely small and far away. For me, the Goddess

is past, present, future, and eternal, and the God is transcendent

and in infinity, so that all my spiritual experience is from and of

the Goddess.

 

Worship of the Goddess is exterior and interior. The exterior form

is to say prayers or chant, and to make offerings of flowers, scent,

or fruits at Her altar. The internal form is contemplation or

meditation, in which we become able to perceive and become the truth

that is the Goddess.

[Guest guest]

Dear K,

 

I just came across your jottings on the Goddess, they are beautiful and this is

how she has been appearing to me from my childhood. I too had a vision of her

where one half of her face is male and the other female and then there is only

her------a form beyond beauty glowing in red energy........

 

Charu

[Guest guest]

Dear Charu,

 

It is the universality of experiences such as these that really

convinces one that Devi is beyond all sects, cults, even language.

That is why, when I found this site, I understood at once. The

progression through the Goddesses of Wisdom is both logical and

beyond logic.

 

Namaste, Richard

 

 

, charu jagat <charu_jagat

wrote:

>

> Dear K,

>

> I just came across your jottings on the Goddess, they are beautiful

and this is how she has been appearing to me from my childhood. I too

had a vision of her where one half of her face is male and the other

female and then there is only her------a form beyond beauty glowing

in red energy........

>

> Charu

>

[Guest guest]

Dear Richard,

 

For me Maa really happened one fine day couple of years back and ever since

....... its been something at times beautiful......at times so

tough..........words fail.....how can one define inspiration...........from the

Himalayas where she appeared sometimes as Tara, sometimes as Durga and at times

as primeval Kali. She led me to Delhi, where when my health broke she took me

back to dance........and now with every mudra, with every gesture, she comes

alive

 

Charu

 

ksnwcz <ksnwcz wrote:

Dear Charu,

 

It is the universality of experiences such as these that really

convinces one that Devi is beyond all sects, cults, even language.

That is why, when I found this site, I understood at once. The

progression through the Goddesses of Wisdom is both logical and

beyond logic.

 

Namaste, Richard