The Three Mothers who birth, nourish and liberate every human being.

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shriadishakti , " jagbir singh "

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>

> The Sakti or Devi is thus the Brahman revealed in the mother

> aspect (Srimata) as creatrix and nourisher of the worlds. Her

> first name in the Sri Lalita Sahasranama is Sri Mata. The reason

> such names are taken from that sacred text is because the Great

> Adi Shakti Herself acknowledged during Guru Puja at Camp Interval,

> Quebec, Canada on July 23, 1994, that Her original name is Shri

> Lalita Devi. Thus the 1000 names of Shri Lalita Sahasranama are

> attributed to Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi in the www.adishakti.org

> website. ...

>

> That is why my daughter once told me that we humans have three

> mothers - the physical mother who gave birth, the spiritual Mother

> within who nourishes and guides us, and Mother Earth who sustains

> all life. (But such knowledge is only admissible if it is

> experienced and cross-examined against the religious texts.) It is

> the Sacred Mother within that we now pay attention to and not Her

> external manifestation. His Shakti (Holy Spirit/Ruh) within is

> indeed the Seer, the Seen and the Seeing within all beings.

>

 

The Three Mothers who birth, nourish and liberate every human being

 

The most ancient Eastern spiritual texts, the Vedas, of India, tell

us that the process of spiritual awakening by which one attains

truth -awareness is called 'Self-Realization'. The Self Realized

person lives in direct experience of reality -- this is

called " Jnana " ( a traditional sanskrit word meaning 'knowledge'

or 'Gnosis'). Such a person is called a " Jnani " ('knower '

or 'gnostic' ) or " dwijaha " ('twice born'; first from a human mother

to the earthly plane then secondly as a child of the Goddess, or

Divine Mother, who gives the seeker their second, spiritual birth,

Self-Realisation, into the plane of mystic awareness-gnosis! ).

 

'Divine Mother' as the Cosmic Matriarch, bestower of the highest

treasure of Self-Realization upon Her deserving children. Many

Indian mystic traditions say this same goddess is represented within

the human being as the divine feminine power called Kundalini.

 

So, Christ seems to be telling us that the kingdom of Heaven, which

is a state of God-like perfection and child-like innocence is

attained by some inner phenomenon. In the Gnostic Scriptures Christ

spoke directly of this as an inner transformation, self realisation.

He also told us that the Holy Ghost or Divine Mother is the power by

which this is accomplished.

 

" O Goddess, who removes the suffering of Your supplicants, be

gracious!

Be gracious, O Mother of the whole world!

Be gracious, O Queen of the universe; Safeguard the universe!

You, O Goddess, are Queen of all that is movable and unmovable!

You alone has become the support of the world,

Because You do subsist in the form of Earth!

By You, who exists in the form of water, all this universe is filled,

O You inviolable in Your valor; You are the Gem of the universe,

You are Illusion sublime! All this world has been bewitched, O

Goddess;

You indeed when attained, are the cause of the final emancipation

from existence on Earth! . . .

O Goddess, be gracious!

Protect us wholly from fear of our foes perpetually,

As You have at this very time saved us promptly by the slaughter of

the demons!

And You bring quickly to rest the sins of all the worlds,

And the great calamities which have sprung, from the maturing of

portents!

To us who are prostrate be You gracious,

O Goddess, who takes away affliction from the universe!

O You worthy of praise from the dwellers of the three worlds,

Bestow Your boons on this world!

 

Markendeya Purana, Candi Mahatmya 10

 

 

" 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

 

 

" Many Faces of the Earth Goddess

 

In India, the land of Gods and Goddesses, not only is the water of

the Ganges holy or the plants of the Himalayas sacred, but the

tradition of worshiping our planet as Bhumi Devi or the Earth

Goddess is as old as folklore. Shiva (consciousness) and Shakti

(nature) are two aspects of the Brahman, the Supreme Being. In

Shakti yoga, therefore, we unite our inner self with the outer

nature.

 

In the Hindu scripture, the mother and the motherland are greater

than the heaven. More than 12,000 years ago, unlike in any other

religions of the world, the God was worshiped as she in the

Dravidian mother goddess religion and women were placed on the top

of a pedestal in that Indus valley civilization. In Sanskrit, earth

is pronounced " Dharitri " which is derived from the root word " Dhri "

meaning " to hold " . Therefore, Dharitri means one who sustains the

lives of the organic and inorganic world. According to the Hindu

cosmology, the Supreme Being, with the help of consciousness and

nature, created three universal gunas or attributes - Sattva (pure),

Rajas (movement) and Tamas (inertia)- from which were manifested the

five elements of nature: ether, air, fire, water and earth. From the

soil were born plants that become seeds for human lives. Thus, the

Hindus praised the mother earth through their Vedic chants

saying " let there be peace on earth. " "

 

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" The wise men of yore regarded Earth as a living organism

worshipping her as a symbol of fertility and as the Nurturing

Mother. As long as the Earth was held sacred, alive and sensitive,

it was unthinkable to exploit her: As one is not aggressive and

domineering towards one's mother. Modern man suddenly became aware

of this intimate relationship when astronauts were able to look at

planet Earth from outer space. Their perception of her beauty and

vitality was such a traumatic experience that it transformed their

relationship to a new dimension. Needless to add that many primitive

tribes and traditional groups in both America and the East practise

the worship of Mother Earth to this day.

 

Scientific investigations have led the chemist James Lovelock and

the microbiologist Lynn Marguilis to regard the planet as a whole,

as a single living organism.

 

Observations of its environmental properties such as the atmospheric

composition, the salt content so the sea and the distribution of

trace elements among plants and animals show that they are regulated

by intricate cooperative networks that manifest the properties of

living self-organising systems.

 

He properties and activities of Mother Earth cannot be known from

the sum of her parts as every one of her tissues is linked to every

other tissue and all of them are mutually interdependent. Her many

pathways of communication are highly complex and non-linear; her

form has evolved over billions of years and continues to evolve.

Recognising that this was Renaissance of a powerful ancient myth,

the two scientists named it the Gaia hypothesis, after the Greek

Goddess of Earth.

 

Every living process has a mind. Since the Earth is a living

organism then she too must be mindful like ourselves. That which is

mindful is also conscious; consequently the Earth can be regarded as

a conscious being. The first centre is made of this conscious

element of Mother Earth within us. "

 

Yogi Mahajan, The Ascent

 

 

" So when the Kundalini ascends through the central path — you see

the subject is so great that even if I give thousand lectures I

cannot cover it, so the thing is I'll try to cover every point

little bit here and there — when the Kundalini ascends, I told you

the Cool Breeze starts coming out of your head. So what happens to

you? For the first time you feel the Cool Breeze of the Holy Ghost! "

 

Shri Mahi Devi

USA — September 16, 1983

Mahi: The Mother Earth; Giver of all Life and Food.

 

 

" 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. "

 

Shri Bala Devi

Cabella, Italy — May 25, 1997

Bala — The First Movement towards Creation

 

 

M. M. writes on 19 Oct 1994:

 

" Well put. I have been practicing Sahaja Yoga for the last two years

and have most definitely gained knowledge through direct experience.

However, it is the only yoga I know that actually provides union

(yoga) with the Divine from the very first day. And via a Self

Realization experience that is 100% verifiable.

 

In years past, a true Master of Yoga (of which there have been very

few) would work on his disciple(s) chakras (energy centers) until

they were cleansed and balanced. He would then give him his

Realization by raising the Kundalini. The Kundalini is the residual

life force left over from our creation and resides in the sacrum

bone which is located at the base of the spine. This Kundalini

energy is a reflection of the Primordial Mother which is the Power

of God that does all the living work and creation. She is like your

own individual Mother and when awakened, will heal and enlighten

your chakras, your brain and fully awaken your spirit, which resides

in the heart, and is a reflection of God Almighty.

 

In Christianity, Kundalini is known as the Holy Ghost (yes, the

trinity is actually the Father, the Son and the Mother). The Father

is the source of all, but is the witness. The Mother is the creative

aspect of God, while the Son is the object of the creation. Hence we

are all children of God.

 

I realize I'm digressing from the point of this newsgroup, knowledge

through experience, but I would like to say just a couple of things

about Sahaja Yoga before I share my own experiences, which I'm sure

many of you will find hard to believe - and yet they happened!

 

First of all, the founder of Sahaja Yoga, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,

has devised a method whereby seekers of truth can get their Self

Realization en masse, spontaneously; meaning you don't have to do

anything for it, e.g. penances, pay money, study scriptures to no

end, etc. I think the following quote of Shri Mataji sums it up

best:

 

" You cannot understand the meaning of your life until you connect

with the power that created you. It's my job to help human beings

make that connection - then they will do the rest. "

 

And once you have established the Self Realization (a.k.a. second

birth, resurrection) through daily meditation and cleansing of the

chakras, you can give the Realization to others - like one candle

lighting another.

 

And now for my own experiences.

 

It all started by a very earnest prayer to God for a change in my

life. I had been seeking and studying religion, philosophy and

metaphysics, but nothing seemed to " stick " and really make a

noticeable change in lifestyle or behavior.

 

The very next day I saw a posting on the Internet that Shri Mataji

was coming to Seattle to talk about Self Realization and meditation.

I guess seeing this posting the very next day was the first of

many " coincidences " that I would experience over the next few

months.

 

Shri Mataji gave Self Realization that night in a process that took

about 10 minutes. As usually only a few strands of the Kundalini

actually make it through all the (usually clogged) chakras, the

experience for most people is somewhat subtle or maybe even non-

existant. For those that do experience Kundalini awakening, you can

feel a cool breeze on top of the head just above the fontanale bone

or on the hands. Sometimes it is hot, especially if the chakras are

damaged. The chakras (means wheels in sanskrit) start to spin off

negativity once they have been pierced by the Kundalini. This

feeling of the cool breeze is what Christ meant when he said first

you must be born of the water (womb) and then of the wind (Self

Realization).

 

In my case, I felt intermittent cool breeze and hot. Shri Mataji

also said our shoulders may hurt if we are feeling guilty (a catch

of the Vishudhi, or throat chakra). Well, as I left the hall, my

shoulders were really aching but the soreness left after about 20

minutes. This is a typical clearout of the chakra.

 

I continued to meditate every day, twice a day for about 15-20

minutes as recommended. However, I wasn't really sure if I was

feeling anything until about 4-5 weeks later. It is really difficult

to describe, but during the meditation that night, I felt like a

tornado of energy circulating on top of my head! I was overcome with

a feeling of joy, satisfation and bliss like I never knew existed.

 

The seven chakras are also mapped via our hands, e.g. the five

fingers, palm and heel of the hand. Once you start the cleansing

techniques, the chakra " catches " manifest themselves as tingling on

the fingertips which are then decoded so you know which chakra needs

to be attended to. The causes of these catches as well as the

techniques for cleansing and clearing them are taught through the

Sahaja Yoga centers.

 

In the Koran, Mohammed Sahib said at the resurrection time (right

now) the lips will be sealed and the hands will speak. It is all

built in. We will judge ourselves. We will not go before God like a

magistrate and plead our case.

 

The beautiful thing about Sahaja Yoga is it happens spontaneously,

it is all built in each and every one of us, it costs absolutely

nothing to do it, and other than the initial Self Realization

experience, you are dependent on no one to ascend spiritually.

However, I'd like to add that as you become aware of being part of

the collective consciousness, you realize that the spiritual ascent

is happening collectively, you just aren't dependent on what human

beings do " externally " to yourself to achieve spiritual growth.

 

I've had some pretty amazing experiences on a physical level as

well, but they are a byproduct of being connected. The

first " experiment " I tried was when I had a sore throat. I circled

the throat chakra seven times and held my right had there, with my

left hand towards Shri Mataji's photograph. I felt a cool breeze on

my left hand and heat coming from my right. After about 5 or 10

minutes, my sore throat was completely gone.

 

I've had a severe hay fever allergy, which I've had for 24 years

clear up instantaneously using Sahaj cleansing techniques. I've had

two sinus infections cleared using the cleansing techniques. In the

past I had only been able to get rid of sinus infections using

antibiotics. I must emphasize that Sahaja Yoga is not a health

clinic, but your health improves as a byproduct of meditation and

cleansing.

 

On a mental level, I have a clarity of thinking like never before.

My performance at work is at another level. Sounds somewhat arrogant

I know, but I have received so much recognition from those I work

with it is almost embarassing.

 

Emotionally, I am practically stress free. I feel a level of joy and

satisfacation like I never new existed. I am so very fortunate to

have a profound spiritual experience, everyday - twice! At least.

 

Once you start to bring down your ego and let go your conditionings,

you start to experience absolute Truth. It is our ego and our

conditionings that blind us from Truth. The ego and superego

(conditionings) are what medical science calls as the left and right

side of the brain. We bring down the ego by forgiving others

absolutely.

 

When Christ said, through the narrow gate you must pass to enter the

kingdom of God, he was talking about the channel between our over-

inflated ego and superego. Christ is the deity that looks over the

agnya charka (at the optic chiasma) and by his dying on the cross

for our sins or karmas, he opened the cosmic agnya chakra, and he

collapses the ego and superego so the Kundalini passes upto and

beyond the sahasrara chakra (limbic nerve area of the brain) so we

can have our yoga with the Divine All Pervading Power.

 

While I have talked a little about Christ and Mohammed, the

teachings in Sahaja Yoga include and respect ALL the holy

scriptures. Truth is truth, nobody owns it, there is only one source

of it (God), so why fight over whose truth is best?

 

One important thing to note, and I cannot emphasize this enough:

Spiritual awakening and subsequent growth is NOT a mental process.

I'm not saying don't read and study scriptures, but you will never

acheive your intended purpose for being here at this auspicious time

in human evolution, which is quite simply to become The Spirit, by

doing anything on a physical or mental level. You can only perceive

the Spirit, your true eternal Self, in a state of thoughtless

awareness after the thoughts drop out and the physical sensory

inputs are ignored. "

 

M.M., Washington, 10/1/1994