Shri Mataji: The consciousness is moving more towards the feminine expression o

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, " Trish " <EMDLCW

wrote:

>

> I have always felt a closness to the divine and refered to the

> divine as mother and father. I left the church many years ago due

> to my questions about the dogma that is presnt in all organized

> religion. And being told I just had to have faith THEY were right,

> and I should not question them. I KNOW that Shri Mataji Nirmala

> Devi is the incarnation of the devine mother and I feel blessed

> that I was lead to her and the truth, I am still reading through

> the Shri Adi Shakti web site, I have a 3 year old and a 12 year old

> so getting time to read can be a challenge.

>

> So I really want to study and share the message with others as

> everyone should be guided to the mothers message. To the truth.

>

 

 

“Even today Hebrew males are taught to offer daily prayer, " Blessed

Art Thou O Lord our God, King of the Universe, who has not made me a

woman. " Mohammed stated, " When Eve was created, Satan rejoiced. " As

the Hebrew myth of the creation was later adopted into the sacred

literature of Christianity, along with all the other writings of the

Old Testament, the writers and religious leaders who followed Christ

assumed the same prose of contempt for the female, continuing to use

religion to lock women further into the role of passive and inferior

beings, and thus more easily controlled property of men. "

 

Merlin Stone. When God was a Woman, A Harvard/HBJ Book, 1976, p. 224.

 

 

“Women's faces are a source of corruption for men who are not related

to them. "

 

Taleban Attorney-General's office, justifying why Afghan widows

should be painted over to prevent unveiled women from being seen

outside. "

 

TIME (March 31, 1997

 

 

" The most formidable objection to the notion of female primacy points

to the women who have gained power in the male system, those who turn

out to be cruel, ruthless, or violent or who at least seem to espouse

the very destructive values that women, according to this proposal,

are supposed to transcend. (The woman governor of Washington

campaigns for nuclear plants, the prime minister of England wants to

move away from collective power, Phyllis Schlafly opposes abortion,

and the woman mayor of my own city vetoes rent controls.) Would the

female of the species, if given the chance, repeat the violence of

the patriarchy? I argue no, for it seems to me that the system itself

guarantees that anyone remaining within it will be affected by its

corruption. If we would see how women really manage power and

government, then let them demonstrate their abilities in a system

that they themselves create out of their own values. There has never

been an antipatriarchal woman in power since the beginning of male

domination, but only women who are puppets of men behind the scenes,

or women who are pawns of male business interests...

 

Consciousness cannot be halted by border patrols, and even

consumerism and advanced technology may turn out to be aids in our

learning about the lives of most of the world's women, in their

learning about the benefits and the strictures of the lives of

westernized women. If it is true that women universally have some

fundamental sensivity it is true that there is some connection

between the critical point that earth is now reaching in terms of

resources and women's awareness of that, then the tide of women's

rage may well rise up in response to those conditions. We may talk

here in our English words of a female future, but it may well be the

women of other nations who ultimately lead us in the most significant

step toward that future...

 

When we talk of a female future we are talking of something that once

existed and that has been deliberately and with full malice held down

and controlled by means so violent that no nonaggressive entity could

hope to resist. We are talking here about the power of women, felt by

every women at some time in her life, that tremendously rich and life-

giving, life-affirming force that functions for both men and women,

for the earth and her creatures as well as for the human species.

When we talk about a female future we are talking about a force that

has been denied, hidden, trivialized, ridiculed and suppressed.

That's where the violence lies — in the minute-by-minute, day-by-day

suppression of the very force that gives us all life. A female future

means the challenge to and the obliteration of that violence.

 

But time is short. And the species may not be able to adapt fast

enough. For that reason it's imperative that the rising up of the

female future be not just the rising of women but an action on the

part of men as well — a movement of men who not only cease to hold

down women but who earnestly lend their tremendous male power to the

hastening of the female future. We can count on it: it will be for us

all the most crucial, the most profound act that women and men have

ever undertaken together. It may well be the very last act that we

ever undertake together. For it becomes clearer with every moment:

EITHER THE FUTURE IS FEMALE OR THE FUTURE IS NOT. "

 

Sally Miller Gearhart, The Future — If There Is One — Is Female

Reweaving The Web Of Life, New Society Publishers, p. 274-84.

 

 

" A passion for life is a passion for completeness. This means, at the

most primal level, merging the male and female within oneself. The

marriage of Shiva and Shakti is about spiritual potential, nothing

less.

 

In men this means the advent of tenderness, nurturing, and trust.

Having a woman supply these quantities is not enough. Male attributes

of force and violence have become grotesquely exaggerated in this

world because men leave the feminine energies to women. Aggression

and violence will become unnecessary as the shadow energies they

disguise — fear and impotence — come to the surface to be recognized

and healed. Being venerable will then be seen as a human quality, not

a weakness that makes a man only half a man. Competition based on

raging (and insecure) ego will diminish with healing and the ability

to cooperate will increase.

 

The worth of women in men's eyes will rise as men stop defending

themselves as the opposite of female. Spiritually, male is the

complement of female. Once this is accepted the awakening of male

spirituality can come about, since it takes an infusion of female

energy before our bodies and minds can totally merge with the silent

field of pure awareness. By welcoming Shakti a man can truly be Shiva.

 

For women the journey to wholeness is different, because it first

entails raising female qualities to full dignity with male. A woman

must build up her energies, so long forced into submission by

society, whereas a man typically has to diminish the dominance of

his. In both instances what is being achieved is balance. No one has

ever claimed that the world has too much affection, tenderness,

nurturing, intuition, and beauty — all female spiritual qualities —

while it is all too obvious that aggression, force, struggle, and

competition — exaggerated male qualities — have gone too far.

 

A woman needs to allow herself however much time it takes to use

Shakti energy to accomplish what has been reserved for the male ego.

Shakti energy runs in everyone, but women have been given their

femaleness to accentuate the difference between Shakti, which is

subtle and spiritual, and brute force. This difference can be

summarized as follows:

 

Shakti understands. Instead of imposing, she communicates.

 

Shakti has patience. Instead of forcing an answer, she waits for

spirit to produce one.

 

Shakti is tender. Instead of ignoring emotions, she uses emotion to

tell when someone else is ready to listen and act.

 

Shakti is peaceful. No situation ever requires force.

 

Shakti is creative. She creates answers where none were seen before.

 

Shakti is wise. She considers the whole picture rather than a few

parts; she takes the cosmic perspective, which always comes from

love. "

 

Deepak Chopra: The Path To Love - Renewing The Power Of Spirit In

Your Life,

Publisher: Three Rivers Press, Jan. 12, 1998

ISBN: 978-0-609-80135-2 (0-609-80135-X)

 

 

" To say something about the connection of Sahaja Yoga with this

Mother Earth, it is very important that we must understand the value

of the Mother Earth. She has been very kind to all of you, She has

been sucking your vibrations. She has been, otherwise also She has

given you everything that you see around. So today, we have to

understand the connection, and the symbolic expression of the Mother

Earth within ourselves. I have told you before also that Kundalini,

which is in three and a half coils is placed within a triangular

bone. Now this abode of the Kundalini is called as Mooladhara, and is

represented in this Universe as Mother Earth. Or in the Puja it is

represented as the Kumbha...

 

And Aquarius is the same as the Kumbha, is the Mother Earth. So we

are at the level of the Mother Earth. You can also see in the

consciousness of human beings — I'm saying not only men, but women

also and men — the consciousness is moving more towards the feminine

expression of life. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Mother Earth, London, UK - August 21, 1983