Srimatha

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Hii,

 

Tomorrow is Mothers Day, let all of us bow down to beloving mothers in our world

and obesiance to mother of the mothers 'srimatha' (mother goddess). Here we have

an beautiful article on our divine mother.

 

Srimatha

 

The Whole Creation is decorated into Nine illusions. One who helps us to over

come from these is Mother Goddess Durga. When we start praying Divine Mother,

she will shower her blessings before the prayer completes. Soundarya Lahari of

Sri Adi Sankaracharya is a very good example for this. Divine Mother gives her

darshan in various forms, she appears to us and bestow her blessings in the same

form as the one in which we meditate and pray.

 

lakshMi pradhAna samayE navavidrumAbhAm

 

vidyA pradhAna samayE sharadindu niramAlam

 

vidvEshi varga vijayE tamalA nilAm

 

dEvIM trilOka jananIm sharaNam prapadyE

 

We can experience the presence of god as per our perception. If we start

worshipping a stone as 'Mother Gowri', she will respond. You need not fear or

doubt to worship Divine Mother. I feel divine mother as one of the members in my

family or one among my children. In fact, 'Adidampatulu' the mother and father

of the world have come out from our feel (Bhavana), so lord shiva is named as

'Bhuva' and mother as 'Bhavani'. The whole process is called 'Bhavanitvam',

which means, immerse me into you. We can overcome the ignorance and enlighten

our lives only with the blessings of 'Jaganmatha' (mother of the universe). If a

child is hungry he or she will crave for mother as well as mother's milk.

Similary, we live in ignorance and we have to crave for divine mother with

utmost devotion and submission to enlighten ourselves. She will bestow knowledge

upon us, thus she is named as 'Gyanaprasunamba'.

 

Once upon a time 'Devathas' (Celestial Beings) made victory over 'Rakshas'

(demons. When they are celebrating their success, they have seen a woman with a

golden shine. From these 'Holy Beings' Agni (God of Fire) has come forward and

said ' I am powerful and I can destroy anything in this world'. Then that woman

gave him a blade of grass straw to extinguish, but 'agni' could not destroy it

with all his powers and strength. Similarly, 'Vayu' (God of Air), 'Varuna' (God

of Water), 'Indra' (God of Heaven) have tried their best and failed to destroy a

grass straw. Then they realised, all their energy, power, strength, knowledge

they acquired is from 'Jaganmatha' '(the mother of the universe).

 

We keep saying 'I can do this work' sometimes we also say 'I cannot do this

work', which means, we have 'shakthi' (energy) to do this work, ether way we

don't have energy to do this work. Divine mother 'Sridevi' is none other than

that energy. The below stanza in 'Soundarya Lahari' explains about the energy (

'shakthi' ) by Shri Adi Sankaracharya.

 

" Shivah shakthya yukto yadi bhavati saktah prabhavitum

 

Na chedevam devo nakhalu kusalah spanditumapi;

 

Atas tvam aradhyam Hari-Hara-Virinchadibhir api

 

Pranantum stotum vaa katham-akart punyah prabhavathi "

 

to be continued...

 

COURTESY : MIHIRA

 

thank you,

regards,

surekha.