In the Brahma Pr., in the Lalitapakhyana, Devi says, My male form is bewildering the milk-maids.

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In the Brahma Pr., in the Lalitapakhyana, Devi says, " My male form

(Shri Krishna) is bewildering the milk-maids. "

 

" 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.

 

 

" 267. In the form of Govinda (Govindarupini.)

 

In the Harivamsa, Narada says, " The first portion of prakrti, the

famous Devi called Uma. [The second one] the manifested Visnu, the

All-Pervading, Protector of the Universe, is known as woman. "

 

R. A. Sastry, Lalita-Sahasranama

The Adyar Library and Research Centre, Madras, 1988, p. 145.

 

 

" 893. In the form of Visnu (Visnurupini.)

 

In the Brahma Pr., in the Lalitapakhyana, Devi says, " My male form

is bewildering the milk-maids. " In the same place Visnu says to

Virabhadra, " The ancient Sakti of the Lord is divided into four

forms, that Sakti becomes Bhavani in its ordinary form [bhoga], in

battle she takes the form of Durga; in anger that of Kali; and she

is also my male form. "

 

The Kurma Pr. when Himavin praises Devi says, " I salute thy form

called Narayana, O Lalita, which has a thousand heads, which is of

infinite energy, having a thousand arms, the ancient Person,

reclining on the waters. "

 

In the Kurma Pr. when Siva showed his universal form to Mankanaka,

the latter said: " What is this terrible form of thine, facing every

side; who is she shining by your side? " Thus questioned, Siva, after

explaining the glory of his own nature, says, " She is my supreme

maya and prakrti of triple qualities. She is said by munis to be the

ancient womb of the universe. " "

 

R. A. Sastry, Lalita-Sahasranama

The Adyar Library and Research Centre, Madras, 1988, p. 338.

 

 

" No other person is our Mother except God. You see, our biological

mother is a mother only for a short time, in this life. Who was with

us in the past life, and in the life before that, and in the one

before that, always with us, who was there? God. The Observer in us,

the highest Self in us. It was always there with us. This is our

true Mother. This Mother accompanies us, life after life. Divine

Mother and Lord Krishna are one and the same. Therefore in the

Sahasranama, the Thousand Names of the Divine Mother, one name is

Govinda-Rupini. What does that mean? Govinda is a name of Krishna.

Divine Mother is in the form of Krishna. She Herself is Krishna.

Divine Mother is infinite Sweetness, infinite Love, infinite Beauty,

absolute Beauty, eternal Beauty, ever-new Beauty. Om Govinda-

rupinyai namah. "

 

Swami Omkarananda, www.sanskrit.bhaarat.com/

 

 

" Innumerable people have had visions about HH Mataji. A little group

of London Sahaja Yogis were meditating in front of HH Mataji.

Suddenly one of us left the room. When we asked him why, later on,

he said he had been aware of thousands of white-clad beings around

us and that he had been scared by their might.

 

In Buenos-Aires a lady who had no knowledge of the Indian mythology

began describing Shri Laxshmi in the Vaikuntha stage, lost in

ecstasy in front of HH Mataji. March 1976: HH Mataji is sitting in

my garden in Kathmandu, gazing toward the sky. I am sitting nearby.

I am looking at Her. Suddenly the lines around HH Mataji are melting

away. I realise that all the lines are dissolving and only one

presence remains which imposes itself onto my attention; my gaze

abandons the vanishing garden and again I look at HH Mataji. And I

see the figure of a man or rather, of a God, a face of unsurpassable

greatness, light blue in complexion, radiating with a beauty and

majesty for which there is no name. I am bewildered, adoring,

subjugated. Yes, it is You, I have already seen You, I remember this

Godhead... and then I bend towards the ground because I feel my eyes

are not pure enough to look at Him. When I look at Her again,

everything is normal. I tell Her what happened. She says simply: " It

was Shri Krishna. " "

 

Grégoire de Kalbermatten, The Advent

 

 

" So Shri Krishna has said that: " Sarva dharmanam... " . He has said

that " Give up all your dharmas and surrender them to Me, surrender

to my dharma only " . So the dharmas we have in our country as we say

is a " pitra dharma " , what you owe to your father, " matru dharma "

what you owe to your mother, then what you owe to your husband, like

that, you see, that relationship in which you owe to them. But when

He says " surrender all these dharmas " , He is meaning to say " you

should only know what you owe to Me " meaning the Divinity.

 

Now Shri Krishna is not there, it's Me who is Shri Krishna. So you

must know what you owe to Me. I only changed My language. He used

to take out His finger and to say that " give up everything and

surrender everything to Me " . I don't do that way, I give a big

lecture and bring you to a point. "

 

Sri Govindarupini Devi

Vienna, Austria, Sept. 4, 1983

 

(Govindarupini [276th]: Of the form of Govinda or Visnu. The second

of the powers of Prakrti as woman is Visnu according to Narada in

Harivamsa.)