Swami Vivekananda on Mother/Goddess/Devi worship

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The Divine Mother

 

Excerpt from

Inspired Talks, My Master and Other

Writings, (Wednessday, July 2,

1895), Swami Vivekananda,

Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center,

New York, (pp. 48-49).

 

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....

 

Mother is

the first manifestation of power and

is considered a higher idea than

father. The name of mother brings

the idea of shakti, Divine energy and

omnipotence. The baby believes its

mother to be all-powerful, 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 prayers.

 

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 the 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. As the latter, she is unknown

and unknowable. Out of the

Unconditioned came the trinity, God,

nature and soul - the triangle of

existence.

 

A bit of Mother, a drop,

was Krishna; another was Buddha.

The worship of even one spark of

Mother in our earthly mother leads

to greatness. Worship Her if you

want love and wisdom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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