Srimatha

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Hii,

 

Today is Mothers Day,

let all of us bow down to beloving mothers in our world and obesiance

to mother of the mothers 'srimatha' (mother

goddess). Here we have an beautiful article on our divine mother.

 

 

 

Srimatha

 

 

 

 

The Whole Creation is

decorated into Nine illusions. One who helps us to over come from

these is Mother Goddess Durga. When we start praying

DivineMother, she will shower her blessings before the prayer

completes. Soundarya Lahari of Sri Adi Sankaracharya is

a very good example for this.Divine Mother gives her darshan in

various forms, she appears to us and bestow her blessings in the same

form as the one in which we meditate and pray.

 

 

lakshMi pradhAna samayE

navavidrumAbhAm

 

vidyA pradhAna samayE sharadindu

niramAlam

 

vidvEshi varga vijayE tamalA nilAm

 

 

dEvIM trilOka jananIm sharaNam

prapadyE

 

 

 

 

We can experience the

presence of god as per our perception. If we start worshipping a

stone as 'Mother Gowri', she will respond. You need not fear

or doubt to worship Divine Mother. I feel divine mother as one of the

members in my family or one among my children. In fact,

'Adidampatulu' the mother and father of the world have come

out from our feel (Bhavana), so lord shiva is named as 'Bhuva'

and mother as 'Bhavani'. The

whole process is called 'Bhavanitvam',

which means,immerse me into you. We can overcome the ignorance and

enlighten our lives only with the blessings of 'Jaganmatha' (mother of the

universe). If a

child is hungry he or she will crave for mother as well as mother's

milk. Similary, we live in ignorance and we have to crave for divine

mother with utmost devotion and submission

to enlighten ourselves. She will bestow knowledge upon us, thus she

is named as 'Gyanaprasunamba'.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once

upon a time 'Devathas' (Celestial

Beings) made victory over

'Rakshas' (demons).

When they are celebrating their success, they have seen a woman with

a golden shine. From these 'Holy Beings'� Agni� (God

of Fire) has come forward and

said ' I am powerful and I can destroy anything in this world'. Then

that woman gave him a blade of grass straw to extinguish, but 'agni'

could not destroy it with all his

powers and strength. Similarly, 'Vayu' (God

of Air), 'Varuna' (God

of Water), 'Indra' (God

of Heaven) have tried their

best and failed to destroy a grass straw. Then they realised, all

their energy, power, strength, knowledge they acquired is from

'Jaganmatha' '(the

mother of the universe). We

keep saying 'I can do this work' sometimes we also say 'I cannot do

this work', which means, we have 'shakthi' (energy)

to do this work, ether way we don't have energy to do this work.

Divine mother 'Sridevi' is

none other than that energy. The below stanza in�

'Soundarya Lahari' explains about the energy ( 'shakthi' ) by Shri Adi

Sankaracharya.

 

 

" Shivah

shakthya yukto yadi bhavati saktah prabhavitum

 

 

 

�Na chedevam devo

nakhalu kusalah spanditumapi;

 

 

 

�Atas tvam aradhyam

Hari-Hara-Virinchadibhir api

 

 

�Pranantum stotum vaa

katham-akart punyah prabhavathi "

 

 

 

to be continued...

 

 

COURTESY : MIHIRA

 

thank you,

regards,

 

surekha.