Vivekananda Mailing List-1/31/04

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This idea of loving God as a child comes into existence and grows

naturally among those religious sects which believe in the incarnation

of God. For the Mohammedans it is impossible to have this idea of God

as a child; they will shrink from it with a kind of horror. But the

Christian and the Hindu can realise it easily, because they have the

baby Jesus and the baby Krishna. The women in India often look upon

themselves as Krishna's mother; Christian mothers also may take up the

idea that they are Christ's mothers, and it will bring to the West the

knowledge of God's Divine Motherhood which they so much need. The

superstitions of awe and reverence in relation to God are deeply rooted

in the beats of our hearts, and it takes long years to sink entirely in

love our ideas of reverence and veneration, of awe and majesty and

glory with regard to God.