Swami Premananda on Mother

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You have seen with your own eyes, how the Mother, who is in reality

the Great Goddess ruling over those who wield the destinies of kings

and emperors, has yet elected to become a poor woman plastering the

house with cow-dung, scouring utensils, winnowing rice and clearing

the leavings of the devotees after their meals. She undertakes all

these tasks to teach the householders their domestic duties. What

infinite endurance, limitless mercy and absolute absense of egotism

are there!

 

Who has understood the Mother? There is not the least trace of

splendour. The Master had atleast the brilliance of wisdom. But what

about the Mother? For her even that glow is wanting. What a great

power is that! Glory to the Mother! Victory to the Mother! Glory to

the powerful Mother! The poison that we cannot assimilate, we pass on

to the Mother. The Mother takes everyone on her lap. Infinite power,

limitless pity! Glory to the Mother! Not to speak of us, we have not

seen even the Master do so. With how much caution and testing would

he accept a man! And here? What do we see here in Mother?

Astonishing, astonishing! She is giving shelter to all. Mother,

Mother, victory unto the Mother! Remember that mercy of that Mother,

that infinite compassion of the Mother, in weal and woe, in success

and failure, in famine and pestilence, in wars and revolutions. Glory

unto the Mother! Victory unto the Mother!