To Ekta on altars and mothers

[Guest guest]

Ekta wrote:

Your heart, full of sweet devotion and sincerity towards God, is the

mostbeautiful altar for Divine Mother. Mother has millions of

temples, many pithas,many thrones throughout the universe. But Her

favorite throne out of all ofthem is the one in the heart of Her true

devotee. If we can't do physical puja,we can always clean the altar in

our hearts with the water of inner purity,decorate it with the

consciousness flowers of selfless prayers, and performabhishekam with

our tears of longing and love for Mother....Many times, those of us

whose mothers did not model unconditional lovefor us will have

trouble having faith in Devi's unconditional love. It's harderto

imagine such a tremendous love when we did not experience the

unconditionallove of a human mother. ...Mother's love toward ALL

ofHer children is unchanging. We just have to keep tuning in to Devi

in whateverway we can so that eventually we will break through the

wall of our pain andexperience that love for ourselves, and we will

never doubt ourselves again.

Dear Ekta ~ this was so beautiful; I thank you with all my heart. I

think you hit the nail right on the head, so I will keep all your

suggestions in my heart and continue my journey to the Mother. Jai

Maa ~ Linda