Vande Mataram - Mother, I bow to thee!

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vande maataraM

sujalaaM suphalaaM malayaja shiitalaaM

sasyashyaamalaaM maataraM ||

 

shubhrajyotsnaa pulakitayaaminiiM

pullakusumita drumadala shobhiniiM

suhaasiniiM sumadhura bhaashhiNiiM

sukhadaaM varadaaM maataraM ||

 

koTi koTi kaNTha kalakalaninaada karaale

koTi koTi bhujai.rdhR^itakharakaravaale

abalaa keno maa eto bale

bahubaladhaariNiiM namaami taariNiiM

ripudalavaariNiiM maataraM ||

 

tumi vidyaa tumi dharma

tumi hR^idi tumi marma

tvaM hi praaNaaH shariire

 

baahute tumi maa shakti

hR^idaye tumi maa bhakti

tomaara i pratimaa gaDi

mandire mandire ||

 

tvaM hi durgaa dashapraharaNadhaariNii

kamalaa kamaladala vihaariNii

vaaNii vidyaadaayinii namaami tvaaM

 

namaami kamalaaM amalaaM atulaaM

sujalaaM suphalaaM maataraM ||

 

shyaamalaaM saralaaM susmitaaM bhuushhitaaM

dharaNiiM bharaNiiM maataraM ||

 

 

(Translation)

 

Mother, I bow to thee!

Rich with thy hurrying streams,

bright with orchard gleams,

Cool with thy winds of delight,

Dark fields waving Mother of might,

Mother free.

 

Glory of moonlight dreams,

Over thy branches and lordly streams,

Clad in thy blossoming trees,

Mother, giver of ease

Laughing low and sweet!

Mother I kiss thy feet,

Speaker sweet and low!

Mother, to thee I bow.

 

Who hath said thou art weak in thy lands

When the sword flesh out in the seventy million hands

And seventy million voices roar

Thy dreadful name from shore to shore?

With many strengths who art mighty and stored,

To thee I call Mother and Lord!

Though who savest, arise and save!

To her I cry who ever her foeman drove

Back from plain and Sea

And shook herself free.

 

Thou art wisdom, thou art law,

Thou art heart, our soul, our breath

Though art love divine, the awe

In our hearts that conquers death.

Thine the strength that nervs the arm,

Thine the beauty, thine the charm.

Every image made divine

In our temples is but thine.

 

Thou art Durga, Lady and Queen,

With her hands that strike and her swords of sheen,

Thou art Lakshmi lotus-throned,

And the Muse a hundred-toned,

Pure and perfect without peer,

Mother lend thine ear,

Rich with thy hurrying streams,

Bright with thy orchard gleems,

Dark of hue O candid-fair

 

In thy soul, with jewelled hair

And thy glorious smile divine,

Lovilest of all earthly lands,

Showering wealth from well-stored hands!

Mother, mother mine!

Mother sweet, I bow to thee,

Mother great and free!

 

 

 

" The most characteristic teaching of Saktism, however, comes close

to Advaita Vedanta: Saktism is considered to be identical with

Brahman. Sakti is the creative force which creates the world and the

creation is one with the force which pervades it. The earliest

evidence for Sakti-Advaita can be found in some Puranas, in which

Devi is explaining her own identity with Brahman. . . .

 

Since Sakti is both avidya and vidya, matter and spirit, the sadhana

taught by Saktas often emphasizes the oneness of bhukti and mukti,

the merging of matter and spirit instead of their discrimination

(viveka) as advocated by other systems. The perfection of the jivas

is achieved through an assumption of all the different forms of

Sakti into their own subtle bodies, thus becoming one with the force

that sustains the universe. . . .

 

Saktism has deeply influenced many recent movements of religious

and philosophical renewal. . . . Many people find in Saktism a basis

for a religion for our age, a religion which takes material reality

as seriously as spirit. As V. S. Agarwal writes: " Mother Earth is

the deity of the new age . . . the kalpa of Indra-Agni and the yuga

of Siva-Visnu are no more. The modern age offers its salutations to

Mother Earth whom it adores as the super-goddess . . . Mother Earth

is the presiding deity of the age, let us worship her. " "

 

Klaus K. Klostermaier, Hinduism: A Short History

OneWorld Publications, 2000, p. 217-8

 

http://www.adishakti.org/our_conscious_earth.htm

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shriadishakti , " jagbir singh "

<adishakti_org> wrote:

>

>

> Mother, I bow to thee!

> Rich with thy hurrying streams,

> bright with orchard gleams,

> Cool with thy winds of delight,

> Dark fields waving Mother of might,

> Mother free.

>

> Glory of moonlight dreams,

> Over thy branches and lordly streams,

> Clad in thy blossoming trees,

> Mother, giver of ease

> Laughing low and sweet!

> Mother I kiss thy feet,

> Speaker sweet and low!

> Mother, to thee I bow.

>

> Who hath said thou art weak in thy lands

> When the sword flesh out in the seventy million hands

> And seventy million voices roar

> Thy dreadful name from shore to shore?

> With many strengths who art mighty and stored,

> To thee I call Mother and Lord!

> Though who savest, arise and save!

> To her I cry who ever her foeman drove

> Back from plain and Sea

> And shook herself free.

>

> Thou art wisdom, thou art law,

> Thou art heart, our soul, our breath

> Though art love divine, the awe

> In our hearts that conquers death.

> Thine the strength that nervs the arm,

> Thine the beauty, thine the charm.

> Every image made divine

> In our temples is but thine.

>

> Thou art Durga, Lady and Queen,

> With her hands that strike and her swords of sheen,

> Thou art Lakshmi lotus-throned,

> And the Muse a hundred-toned,

> Pure and perfect without peer,

> Mother lend thine ear,

> Rich with thy hurrying streams,

> Bright with thy orchard gleems,

> Dark of hue O candid-fair

>

> In thy soul, with jewelled hair

> And thy glorious smile divine,

> Lovilest of all earthly lands,

> Showering wealth from well-stored hands!

> Mother, mother mine!

> Mother sweet, I bow to thee,

> Mother great and free!

>

>

 

" Today we are going to do the Puja of Adi Shakti. It's a difficult

subject to talk about Adi Shakti because it's not easy to understand

that Adi Shakti is the Power of Sadashiva. Sadashiva is the God

Almighty. She is HIS Breath, as they some people call it. Some say

She is the Desire and some say that She's the entire Power of

Sadashiva and Sadashiva cannot do anything without Her Powers.

 

This subject has been described by many people in various books in

different ways. But actually we need not go to the background of the

creation of Adi Shakti for that, at least, you need seven lectures

but we'll come to the point where Adi Shakti started working on this

Mother Earth.

 

The first thing is, we must know that She created a Kundalini in the

Mother Earth itself and She created Shri Ganesha out of the Mother

Earth. It's very interesting. So the Mother Earth becomes a very

important thing for us. If you do not know how to respect the Mother

Earth, we do not know how to respect ourselves. The expression of

Adi Shakti within you is the Kundalini, no doubt. That is the

reflection of Adi Shakti in you. But the reflection in the Mother

Earth is also expressed, as you all know, in different places,

different countries, different cities as the manifestation of

Chakras and Adi Shakti's creations. It was very important first to

create a very holy Mother Earth for human beings to be born on them.

 

So the reflection of the Adi Shakti as Kundalini first, was on the

Mother Earth. The Kundalini is a, we should say, is a wee part of

the Adi Shakti or we can say that She is the desire, pure Desire,

of the Adi Shakti. So Adi Shakti is the desire, complete desire of

Sadashiva and Kundalini, Adi Kundalini, is the desire, complete

desire of Adi Shakti.

 

Now this one was first expressed in the Mother Earth, inside the

Mother Earth. Inside the Mother Earth, the Kundalini came up in such

a way that it coiled down the inner part of the Mother Earth, as

much as it could, and then it manifested on the surface of the Earth

as different Chakras. So it's a tremendous similarity that we have

with Virata, the Mother Earth and the human beings.

 

If all of them are being reflected by the Adi Kundalini, so there

has to be a great connection between them. It is not understood by

human beings how they are connected to this Mother Earth. This

Kundalini passed through different centres, creating different

centres, in the Mother Earth and, ultimately, broke through

Kailasha. And, I don't know how many of you have been to Kailash,

you'll see tremendous vibrations flowing out of Kailash.

 

Now the way we insult our Mother Earth, what we are doing is we are

insulting the Adi Shakti. So many ways there are, we should respect

the Mother Earth. I mean it was an Indian custom to begin with, when

you got up from your bed and you touched the Mother Earth with your

feet, you had to say, " Oh, Mother Earth, please forgive me because

I'm touching you with my feet. "

 

Shri Bala Shri Nirmala Devi

Respect The Mother Earth, Shri Adi Shakti Puja,

Cabella, Italy — May 25, 1997

 

Bala (965th): Sri-Bala-Tripura-Sundari is the deity signifying the

primordial state of consciousness in its first movement towards

creation. She is imagined as a girl between the ages of two and nine

whose nature is sporting.