Isabelle, She makes use of your very life and its experiences to to make you perfect and bestow upon you divine Peace and Joy and the Illimitable Splendour of Self-realization.

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" So that's why I share your conclusions that we have nothing to do

with the SY Organization anymore; but at the same time, let's not

forget that this Organization has a role to play in the global Divine

plan. Otherwise, it would not have been created.

 

In one beautiful " vision " I had in my years of doubt and struggle :

I was feeling scared and sad because I didn't understand what was

going on with the SY collectivity.

 

The Adi Shakti was sitting under a tree, on a throne. She told me to

sit in front of Her and She asked me why I was so sad. " Because

they're making a mess of your teaching, of your Advent. And because I

feel useless, powerless and scared. " She smiled at me and told me to

touch the ground with my forehead, by Her feet, which I did. She then

put one foot at the back of my head. A stream of liquid Bliss and

Light poured down into my whole being. I stayed there, at the Adi

Shakti's feet, for quite a while. It was absolute Bliss.

 

When She removed her foot, I looked back up at Her. I was feeling

totally cleansed, pure, joyous... She gave me a beaming smile and

said: " You see, problems and sadness don't exist! "

 

This is one of the great blessings She gave me. I recall this

wonderful vision whenever I forget who She is, and who I am (and

that happens all the time!!) : She is the Adi Shakti, I'm Her child,

and all I have to do is to keep Her happy by maintaining myself in

the Bliss and Joy She wants us all to attain. The rest will get

cleared up by Her grace.

 

It's only by maintaining ourselves freely in the position She gave us

that we are doing our " job " . And that's not easy!!

 

I feel this is also the role of this Forum : to help and support each

other in our quest to maintain our faith and balance in these troubled

times.

 

With much Love to you all. "

 

 

Isabelle

 

 

Dear Isabelle,

 

i immensely enjoyed your post and am still absorbing a deep lesson.

It is one of the most inspirational narration of the Divine Mother i

have come across. There is so much to learn from this extraordinary

experience. Isabelle, She makes use of your very life and its

experiences to make you perfect and bestow upon you divine Peace and

Joy and the Illimitable Splendour of Self-realization. Thank you so

much for sharing an experience that will both enrich and inspire

those who truly seek the presence, guidance and protection of the Adi

Shakti within themselves. i offer Swami Chidananda's enlightenment

(appended below) to mirror your own. Please enjoy it.

 

warmest regards,

 

jagbir

 

 

" Who Is Divine Mother Durga?

Blessed Immortal Atman!

Dear & Revered Member!

Om Namo Narayanaya. Jai Sivananda!

 

When this letter reaches you, we would have just passed the solemn,

auspicious and most joyous period of the sacred nine-day worship of

the Divine Mother. It is now the holy period of Navaratri as I write

this for your November Wisdom Light. The atmosphere is surcharged

with deep devotion to Maha-Devi and vibrant with the fervour of

worshipfulness, adoration and prayer. Our thoughts are filled with

the glorious Divine Mother, and Her Blessed and wondrous

manifestation as Durga-Lakshmi-Saraswati. She is the great Mystery,

the inscrutable Power of the Supreme Brahman, who holds in Her Hands

both bondage and Liberation.

 

The Grace of the Divine Mother it is, that enables you to walk the

path of Divine Life. Through Her benign blessings you are able to

shine as a sincere spiritual seeker and a man of Dharma. To worship

the Mother with Devotion is to be immediately uplifted by Her

Strength and Power. She works within your inner being as the triple

force of destruction, evolution and illumination. Destroying the

impure and vicious aspects of one's lower nature, the unworthy, base,

and bestial in the individual personality, and helping evolve the

human nature into sublime heights of goodness, nobility and the

purity of beauteous virtue. She illumines the Jiva with supreme

divine wisdom. Thus the Divine Mother is the very life and support of

the aspirant's spiritual Sadhana. She makes your quest fruitful with

Attainment. The Divine Mother grants Kaivalya Moksha or eternal

release and immortality.

 

To worship and to adore the Blessed Mother is to welcome Her Divine

Help in working out your highest good and everlasting welfare. When

you thus seek Her divine aid, Her compassionate response is

immediate. She sets to redeem you in Her own way. She sends

experiences both pleasant and painful, through trials and

difficulties. She moulds and strengthens you, through sorrow and

suffering, She refines and purifies your nature. She enriches and

blesses you with spiritual experience and raises you to exalted

heights. She makes use of your very life and its experiences to make

you perfect and bestow upon you divine Peace and Joy and the

Illimitable Splendour of Self-realization. Therefore, O Beloved

Seeker! learn to accept the joys and sorrows, the temptations and the

trials of your life with wisdom and understanding. Seek to recognise

their hidden meaning and purpose for your own evolution and supreme

good. Find Her Divine Hand behind all occurrences and see the

Mother's Will working through them. Then will you behold your entire

life as the expression of the Mother's immeasurable Love for you...

 

May the Divine Mother shower Blessings upon you! "

 

-Swami Chidananda

1-11-1963

Sivananda Ashram Letter No. II