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Dear devotees of the Adi Shakti,

 

i came across this interesting article at a prominent site on

Hinduism and Yoga:

 

" The Divine Mother is an image that has long been blurred and even

altogether buried by patriarchal conceptions of the ultimate Reality

as Father and Creator. After Nietzsche, we even declared the death of

that patriarchal God, taking recourse to more abstract notions of the

Divine. But our abstractions generally fail to feed us with

inspiration and hope, and so we feel peculiarly adrift and ill at

ease.

 

Thus the living spiritual traditions of the East, which have

challenged and enriched our Western heritage millennium after

millennium, hold a strong attraction for many of us. It is there, and

especially in the tradition of Hinduism, that the image of the Divine

Mother shines with undiminished brightness, as it has ever since the

dawn of human civilization.

 

Hinduism recognizes the existence of beings whose consciousness is

steeped in the Divine but who are yet endowed with a human body.

These great beings are the " incarnations, " or avataras, who are not

simply advanced human beings, or superb mystics who have attained

union with the Divine through steadfast spiritual discipline. Rather

they are beings descended from the radiance of the Divine, who have

taken on human form to aid the spiritual maturation of humanity.

 

Some of these extraordinary beings embody the maternal aspect of the

Divine. They are the " mothers, " whose purpose is to draw us toward

the Divine through their boundless love and nurturing. They are not

mere archetypes but they mesh, if we allow it, with the mother

archetype within us, and then become singularly potent carriers of

meaning and personal transformation.

 

Two such maternal avataras are Mother Meera and Amritanandamayi Ma

or " Ammachi. " They have much in common. Both were born in India. Both

are of diminutive stature but with a heart as large as the cosmos

itself. Both embrace all races, nationalities, and religions equally.

And, not least, both refuse to engage Westerners through the

intellect but offer instead a relationship, a state of being. Indeed,

their palpable love and peace can be experienced by anyone who cares

to undertake the pilgrimage to their respective centers. More than

that, because the world is a wonderful hologram in which everything

is contained in everything else, their benign spiritual presence can

even be felt thousands of miles away by a mere act of meditative

attention. "

 

 

And i read increasing number of articles by these highly-motivated

and brave followers of these mothers. What makes me respect them is

their open declaration to all about who their mothers are. And they

are also claiming their ammas to be the Divine Mother, Adi Shakti,

Durga Maa etc., names that can belong to only the One and Only Divine

Mother.

 

But they are getting the upper-hand and they deserve success because,

compared to the whims and cowards we SYs have been for the last three

decades, these souls stand head and shoulders above us in announcing

their beliefs loud and clear.

 

There is now a question that disturbs me: " How are followers of these

bogus mothers and fake fathers able to muster all this faith and

valour in this open world, while we devotees of the Adi Shakti still

cringe and cower in fear in our collective caves? "

 

But what the heck? We can still enjoy and celebrate the shadows of

our obscurity. ................. and let's not forget our awesome

witnessing powers second to none!

 

 

jagbir