A bit of Mother, a drop, was Krishna; another was Buddha.

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" 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. "

 

Swami Vivekananda, " Inspired Talks, My Master and Other Writings " ,

Wednesday, July 2,1895,

Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, NY, pp. 48-49.