The Divine Mother

 The role of the Divine Mother in Her sattwic aspect — as distinct from the restlessly rajasic and the inertly tamasic aspects of Nature — is to draw all Her children, all self-aware beings everywhere, back to oneness with God. Women, more naturally than men, can manifest this feminine aspect of cosmic nature, if they so choose. Every human being has an obligation, above all to himself, to live by high ideals. In society, people have a duty also to help one another, and to cause injury to no one. None can offer more inspiration to others than he actually feels in himself. Everyone should strive always — even if only for an individual’s own sake — to reach out towards that high potential. If there is a single need greater than any other today, it is for selfless love, rather than self-interested love. Love is more easily and universally comprehensible when we identify it with mother-love. The Divine Mother, then, is a concept that can change the world. The Divine Mother is the source of the mother-instinct. We are Her own. As Paramhansa Yogananda prayed, “Divine Mother, naughty or good, I am Thy child. Thou must release me from this nightmare of delusion!” You can pray like that, with confidence, to the Divine Mother: scoldingly if you like; with pressing urgency if you like; demanding of Her in ways that you might not dare to address the Heavenly Father. We are Her own; She is forever ours. It is easier to establish a relation of mutual trust with the Divine Mother than with God in any other aspect.

Source: Economic Times, 1/08/2019