The 189th name of Shri Lalita is Durgama. Who is the Divine Mother Durga?

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Who Is Divine Mother Durga?

 

" She is the great Mystery, the inscrutable Power of the Supreme

Brahman, who holds in Her Hands both bondage and Liberation.

 

The Grace of the Divine Mother it is, that enables you to walk the

path of Divine Life. Through Her benign blessings you are able to

shine as a sincere spiritual seeker and a man of Dharma. To worship

the Mother with Devotion is to be immediately uplifted by Her

Strength and Power. She works within your inner being as the triple

force of destruction, evolution and illumination. Destroying the

impure and vicious aspects of one's lower nature, the unworthy,

base, and bestial in the individual personality, and helping evolve

the human nature into sublime heights of goodness, nobility and the

purity of beauteous virtue. She illumines the Jiva with supreme

divine wisdom. Thus the Divine Mother is the very life and support

of the aspirant's spiritual Sadhana. She makes your quest fruitful

with Attainment. The Divine Mother grants Kaivalya Moksha or eternal

release and immortality.

 

To worship and to adore the Blessed Mother is to welcome Her Divine

Help in working out your highest good and everlasting welfare. When

you thus seek Her divine aid, Her compassionate response is

immediate. She sets to redeem you in Her own way. She sends

experiences both pleasant and painful, through trials and

difficulties. She moulds and strengthens you, through sorrow and

suffering, She refines and purifies your nature. She enriches and

blesses you with spiritual experience and raises you to exalted

heights. She makes use of your very life and its experiences to make

you perfect and bestow upon you divine Peace and Joy and the

Illimitable Splendour of Self-realization. Therefore, O Beloved

Seeker! learn to accept the joys and sorrows, the temptations and

the trials of your life with wisdom and understanding. Seek to

recognise their hidden meaning and purpose for your own evolution

and supreme good. Find Her Divine Hand behind all occurrences and

see the Mother's Will working through them. Then will you behold

your entire life as the expression of the Mother's immeasurable Love

for you. "

 

Swami Chidananda 1st. November 1963

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Hi

 

I have just joined this forum and was going to post my first message

after the last posting on the board. However, what I want to ask

about may fit in better here.

 

I joined SY in either 1998 or 1999 and stayed in it until 2000. I

had very quite amazing experiences in it but left because left

because what I had thought was going to be an amazing life

transforming experience seemed to gradually tail off into a kind of

game that I didn't want to play any more, and no one else appeared

to have the same experiences that I did. Some of my experiences have

already been quoted by Jagbir from a few emails I sent him. I must

say however, that I am not sure if my failure to " thrive " was really

my fault. For example I got a really strong feeling at one point

that Sri Mataji was calling me to go to India where I would be able

to see her and speak to her directly. But I really didn't feel up to

it and still don't know if I could get there! I've also felt

strongly that I should leave my job, sell my house and go do

voluntary work in India or Africa as this is the only " work " that

would be worth doing. But again, I just don't seem to be able to do

this. So consequently I feel stuck, stunted and confused, often not

liking what I see going on around me, but not being able to do

anything to change things - especially re war and nuclear weapons. I

go on marches but we don't seem to be changing many peoples'

attitudes and indeed people get so angry with me when I mention this

kind of thing that I have stopped talking about it!

 

However, back to Durga. It is only since looking at a certain

photograph of Sri Mataji this morning that I have " remembered "

another experience I used to have whilst in SY. When we watched the

videos I used to see her face become a kind of coloured " mask. " When

I mentioned this I was told that " No, this did not happen. " Well

perhaps I should have stuck up for myself a bit more, because Yes,

it did, actually, for me if no one else! Looking at the photo this

morning I see a distinct white triangle (pointing downwards) around

the binu dot, and more white going upwards above the triangle. I

also got a bit of something above the eye brows - not white, and not

clear from this photo. I do know a little about yanta and the shri

yants. I've also just looked up images of the godess Kali (whom I

think links with Durga)and she also had this white triangle on her

forehead, it also said (re Kali/Durga) that she is the " Divine

Mother " who frees us from illusions, from the " play. " I could never

get the idea about Kali in the past, I didn't like to look of her at

all! However, now I am beginning to " get the picture " !