Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe

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, " jagbir singh "

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>

> Below is an article written by Prof. V. Krishnamurthy that seems

> to project a Hindu Divine Feminine, one that non-Hindus cannot

> easily relate to their own religion and holy scriptures. Only Shri

> Mataji Nirmala Devi has given evidence that the Divine Feminine is

> entrenched in all the holy scriptures as the Adi Shakti

> (Hinduism), Comforter/Holy Spirit (Christianity), Shekinah

> (Judaism), Ma Adi/Ruh (Islam), Mai Treya (Buddhism), Great Mother

> (Taoism) and Aykaa Mayee (Sikhism). Such an unprecedented

> revelation in history and irrefutable evidence to back it is

> absolutely required if the Shakti is indeed within all humans, as

> recorded in the holy scriptures. Only those who understand Her

> Divine Message will be able to comprehend how and why " the

> Kundalini Shakti present as dormant energy in every one of us " is

> so active within those taking part in the Last Judgment and

> Resurrection.

>

 

>

> Mother Goddess

> Prof. V. Krishnamurthy

>

> 1. The primeval energy

>

> One of the unique features of Hinduism is the fact that it

> conceives Divinity also as Mother Goddess. Even religions

> which clearly assert that Divinity has no name or form,

> other than Hinduism, do not take the next logical step of

> accepting that the Supreme God has no specificity in terms

> of gender. It is only in Hinduism that we see the Ultimate

> Power is also expressed in feminine terms. It must be said

> to the credit of the Upanishadic seers that they

> categorically asserted that real Godhead has to transcend a

> gender-specific connotation and invented therefore the

> unique word `Tat' – meaning `that' – for that Divinity. And

> therefore, they argued, whatever reason or rhyme we have in

> referring to God by a masculine pronoun, the same right

> there is for us to call God by a feminine pronoun.

>

> In fact they go further. They conceive the energy of every

> Cosmic Divinity as feminine and thus arrive at the

> interesting concept of primordial Power or the ParA-shakti.

> In Science, matter is fundamental and self-existent; its

> motive power is Energy. In Hindu Vedanta on the other hand,

> Energy is self-existent and Matter is the product of

> Energy. It is this ever-present Energy that is called

> ParA-shakti. Without this ParA-shakti's life-giving

> inspiration, the Creator BrahmA cannot do his creative

> function, Vishnu cannot perform his sustenance function,

> nor can Rudra contribute to the Cosmic ecology by His

> dissolution function at the time of pralaya, which must

> follow all creation, in due time. That is why She is called

> (LalitA-sahasranAma) " SrshhTi-kartrI brahma-rUpA goptrI

> govinda-rUpiNI; samhAriNI rudra-rUpA .... " . The concept of

> Shakti as the essence of everything is non-existent in the

> western culture. Modern Physics, however, shows signs of

> reversing that trend of thought.

>

> 2. Brahman to be known, Shakti to be worshipped

>

> The primordial ParA-shakti is therefore the ultimate

> dynamic Energy of that transcendental Para-Brahman, than

> which there is no other existence. In fact it is

> technically inaccurate to say that She is the Energy of the

> Para-Brahman, because the nature of the latter does not

> allow any attributes or predicates for it. When we

> attribute anything to the Para-Brahman we have already

> delimited and circumscribed it. When we talk of the Energy

> of the Ultimate Reality we have already come one step down

> from the supreme pedestal of the Unmanifested Ultimate. But

> the beauty of Hindu philosophy is that this ParA-shakti

> Herself is transcendent beyond anything that is finite and

> immanent in everything there is and therefore while we

> predicate it, and relate it to other things, it is still

> the Ultimate Supreme that can be talked about.

>

> While Brahman has only to be cognised, ParA-shakti can be

> worshipped by the methods of SaguNopAsanA, that is, worship

> by a form and name. She is the Divine Will personified. She

> is the Conscious Power behind everything. She is the

> Presence, invisible and constant, which sustains the world,

> linking form and name, holding them in inter-dependence.

> There is nothing impossible for Her. She is the Universal

> Goddess. She is all knowledge, all strength, all triumph

> and all victory. She is the Maheshvari who brings to us the

> total state of illumination.

>

> 3. She is Many-One

>

> She is in fact the Mother of the Universe. She creates, She

> preserves, She dissolves. She is the `sat', therefore

> creates: She is the `chit', therefore is Life; She is the

> Ananda, therfefore is bliss. At the same time She must be

> the possessor and controller of the opposite qualities

> also, namely, Destruction, Death and Terror. It is in these

> latter three facets that She manifests Herself as

> MahA-KALi: the Goddess of supreme strength. All might and

> power that is anywhere has to bow down to Her prowess. She

> is MahA-lakshmi, the supreme Goddess of Love and Delight

> and She gives the Grace and Charm to everything that is

> divine or human. She is MahA-Sarasvati, the Goddess of

> divine skill and knowledge. She is the fire-fighter and

> trouble-shooter for the entire universe.

>

> She does not have to descend from Her heights of Glory and

> Majesty and limit Herself to a human birth as the other

> divinities like Vishnu and Shiva do. She manifests Herself

> just when She wills it and She demanifests also just like

> that. The supreme examples of such manifestation and

> non-manifestation are narrated in that wonderful book

> called `ChanDi' or `durgA-sapta-shati' or `devI-mAhAtmyaM'.

> This book which is, by some accounts, one of the

> upa-purANas, is not just a narrative poem describing the

> exploits of ParA-shakti. It is a book of mantras. Every

> verse therein has a mantra value and is capable of

> producing spiritual and occult vibrations which will result

> not only in the spiritual elevation of mankind but in their

> material benefit also. Let us spend just a little time on

> why this is so.

>

> 4. She is Herself the Para-brahman

>

> Whenever any cosmic divinity acts it has to draw the energy

> to act from that infinite source of energy, the

> transcendent Para-brahman. The power, the life-giving

> inspiration to act and the dynamism for the Will, all of

> these come from that ultimate source. This source is the

> ParA-shakti, an infinite reservoir of Energy. It is the

> dynamic expression of the Infinite Actionless Unmanifested

> Para-brahman. That is why whenever we think of Her,

> whenever we invoke Her, whenever we fill our heart and mind

> with Her exploits by reading the `ChanDi' not only are we

> elevated spiritually but the very atmosphere is lifted to a

> higher level of enlightenment, brilliance and radiance. She

> is the only Divinity who is amenable both for worship by

> means of saguNopAsanA (that is, worship through form and

> name) and for cognition through nirguNopAsanA, that is

> worship of the Unmanifested and Attributeless.

>

> In the case of the other Gods if one is inclined towards

> nirguNopAsanA one has to sublimate their forms, transcend

> them and reach the heights of the inexpressible ecstasies

> of the `experience' of brahman. But in the case of

> parA-shakti there is nothing beyond Her. You may worship

> Her as a Goddess with form and attributes or you may

> imagine that Energy to be abstract and therefore has to be

> only cognised and felt in your bones. She is Herself the

> para-brahman becuse brahman cannot be cognised any other

> way except through its dynamic expression of Will which is

> the PrakRti or MayA, through the visible form of

> parA-shakti. Thus the Mother Goddess admits of the full

> range of bhakti as well as the highest sophistication of

> jnAna yoga or Raja-yoga. In one case She is the Mother

> whose form we adore in one of several forms resplendent in

> the numerous temples with any one of Her more than thousand

> names. And in the other case She is the KunDalinI shakti

> who is present as the dormant energy in every one of us.

>

> Prof. V. Krishnamurthy

>

 

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Truth is strengthening. Truth is purity, Truth is all knowledge.

Truth must be strengthening, must be enlightening, must be

invigorating. We speak of many things parrot-like, but never do

them; speaking and not doing has become a habit with us....

 

Be bold! My children should be brave, above all. Not the least

compromise on any account. Preach the highest truths broadcast. Do

not fear of losing your respect or of causing unhappy friction. Rest

assured that if you serve truth in spite of temptations to forsake

it, you will attain, a heavenly strength, in the face of which men

will quail to speak before you things which you do not believe to be

true. People would be convinced of what you would say for them, if

you can strictly serve truth for fourteen years continually, without

swerving from it. We are all the sparks of the infinite. How can we

be nothing? We are everything, ready to do everything, we can do

everything and man must do everything, Therefore, my brethren, teach

this life-saving, great, ennobling, grand doctrine to your children,

even from their very birth. This marvellous doctrine of the soul is

the perfection of the soul. This faith in themselves was in the

hearts of our ancestors, this faith in themselves was the motive

power that pushed them forward and forward in the march of

civilisation; and if there has been degeneration and if there has

been defeat, mark my words. You will find degradation to have

started on the day our people lost this faith in themselves.

 

What did I learn in the West?

 

There I saw that inside the national hearts of both Europe and

America resides the tremendous power of the men's faith in

themselves. An English boy will tell you, '1 am an Englishman, and I

can do anything " . The American boy will tell you the same thing, and

so will any European boy.

 

Can our boys say the same thing here? No, nor even the boys'

fathers. We have lost faith in ourselves. There is not one system in

India, which does not hold the doctrine that God is within, that

Divinity reside within all things. Every one of our Vedantic systems

admit that all purity and perfection and strength are in the soul

already.

 

The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If

faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practised, I

am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have,

would have vanished.

 

Throughout the history of mankind, if any motive power has been more

potent than another in the lives of all great men and women, it is

that of faith in themselves.

 

Born with the consciousness that they were of to be great, they

became great. Never quarrel about religion. All quarrels and

disputations concerning religion simply show that spirituality is

not present. Religious quarrels are always over the husks. When

purity, when spirituality goes, leaving the soul dry, quarrels

begin, and not before.

 

Do not care for doctrines, do not care for dogmas, or sects, or

churches or temples; they count for little compared with the essence

of existence in each man which is spirituality and the more this is

developed in a man, the more powerful is he for good. Earn that

first, acquire that and cnticise no one. Show by your lives that

religion does not mean words or names, or sects, but that it means

spiritual realization.

 

Sincerity of conviction and punty of motive will surely gain the

day, and even a small minority, armed with these is surely destined

to prevail against all odds.

 

Truth, purity and unselfishness - wherever these are present, there

is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof.

Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole

universe in opposition.

 

Swami Vivekananda

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Dear Jagbir et al,

 

And are not all these important ingredients if ever there is to be a

Universal Pure Religion?

 

Violet

 

 

, " jagbir singh "

<adishakti_org> wrote:

 

" Do not care for doctrines, do not care for dogmas, or sects, or

churches or temples; they count for little compared with the essence

of existence in each man which is spirituality and the more this is

developed in a man, the more powerful is he for good. Earn that

first, acquire that and cnticise no one. Show by your lives that

religion does not mean words or names, or sects, but that it means

spiritual realization.

 

Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the

day, and even a small minority, armed with these is surely destined

to prevail against all odds.

 

Truth, purity and unselfishness - wherever these are present, there

is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof.

Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole

universe in opposition " .

 

Swami Vivekananda