A Tribute to The Divine Mother
A Tribute to The Divine Mother
The Prime Creator or Original Spark of Creation is a feminine aspect. Therefore the Divine Mother is Supreme. She is beyond everything. Beyond the Beyond. In India they say that there is nothing higher than worship of the Divine Mother. The great Saint Sri Aurobindo said that surrender to the Divine Mother is the final stage of perfection. When Babaji took Samadhi, the last thing he said is ³I am leaving everything in the hands of the Divine Mother.²
When we talk about the Divine Mother we are referring to the Intelligence behind matter. Einstein was tapped into that. The Divine Mother as the Supreme Deity is the source of all knowledge. All the male gurus I
admire so much in India know this. It is the secret of their power. We are talking about true power here: Love, Safety and Certainty, not ego power (domination control and anger)
When people surrender to the Divine Mother extraordinary changes take place. When you explore the Goddess energy, you truly value life! The essence of the life force (shakti) cannot be controlled. The Divine Mother as kundalini will clean you out. She is the true release from delusion. With Her, your old personality is replaced by miracle consciousness.
The greater your devotion to her, the faster your progress! It is due to her we can achieve true happiness. It is due to her transcendent nature and personification of intelligence that matter is created. Everything we possess is a gift from the Mother. When we surrender to Her, the intelligence of the whole universe is our teacher. We get the urge to bring forth the inexpressible into manifestation. We remember the ecstasy of
being alive! Our bodies can become instruments through which the feminine
aspect plays.
Tapping into the Divine Mother in a balanced way can produce Regeneration, Restoration and Renewal. That is why the Divine Mother asked me to use the term ³Sacred Renewal Breathwork² now for my healing modality. During these crucial times ahead, everything must be taken to the next level where new paradigms are needed. The Divine Mother Vibration needs to be emphasized now like never before, since we can see by our results in the world how out of balance we actually are. The sacred feminine has been so suppressed for so long that we have lost touch with our true essence.
In each of us there is a masculine side and a feminine side. The model of the universe in which a male God rules the cosmos serves to legitimize male control in social institutions. But we cannot merely reject
the system that is not working. It must be replaced. Nor would it work to replace the system with the Matriarchy. Historically, peace was produced when men and women ruled together as equals, worshipping the Divine Mother together. No one dominated anyone. Refer to ³The Chalice and The Blade² by
Renee Eisler.
The way of the Goddess is one of natural Law and Wisdom. When people object to this, thinking that the Goddess is pagan, heathen and so on, they miss the fact that her influence is regenerative, life enhancing and
extremely beneficial. If everything is stuck, only she is moving. When necessary and called and prayed for, the Mother will transform into Kali, and with her force, consume and devour everything not pure. Those who lay
their consciousness at her feet and trust her unconditionally will realize her form as Jagadambe, the Mother who gives birth and life to the whole universe. She in her ultimate love for her creation is the ultimate source
of help. If we surrender to Her, we surrender to the Universe that knows what it is doing!
The Goddess is love combined with power. She is the part of ourselves that is nurturing; that shows kindness, tenderness, cooperation, and encouragement. She softens our heart. When you chose communion with God in BOTH ASPECTS (Father and Mother), you will finally know peace and joy unbounded and love fully expressed. The more balanced you are, the deeper your relationships can be to human beings.
In India they say that only the Divine Mother can grant the ³boon² (reward) of Physical Immortality. Wouldn¹t you like to transcend aging, disease, disintegration and even the death of your body? The Mother can grant this transfiguration. It IS possible to restore our body to the original Divine Blueprint and perfection of Divine Self. One can ascend out of a distorted pain-racked body into a radiant physical body! At this very moment, your life is reflecting what you believe to be true about yourself. The Divine Mother is available to YOU. You can manifest limitless physical perfection through every cell and organ of your body. You are being given the awesome privilege of assisting humanity through this birthing process. Let go of your old obsolete belief systems. Let the Divine Life Force roar through you!
Oh Divine Mother.
Let my every action
Be a Worship of You
Let every sound falling from my lips
Be a chant of your great mantra
Here is what my Master Babaji said:
³The Great Power, that is the cosmic Maya, The Supreme Divine Energy, the Mother Goddess embodies the totality of all that is to be known, being the combined divine Grace-Energy of the Goddess Maha Kali, Maha Lakshmi, and Maha Saraswati. To Worship the lotus feet of the Universal Goddess in this form gives human life its highest realization.² He praised Shastriji, his High Priest for writing the great book Shri Haidakhand Sapta Sati. It is my great pleasure to share some of his verses here.
In honor of Shastriji:
³Salutations to You, Mother of the Universes
We bow to You who lives in them foreverS
Through all the ages. Your form is beyond
The decay of time, inherent in everything.
You are immortal. You are beyond being known
Of unfathomable mystery.
Great Mother we bow to You
You always reside in the heart of all beings as their own self.
As Maya, the cosmic illusion, you adorn life with the
Most beautiful glow. You are ever present in your divinity as
Supreme knowledge. You are the Ultimate Point in the Infinity
Of Cosmic Space. As the universal Self, You shower
The rain of divine Nectar on the world and let the rain of
Bliss drowns all the fears of this world.
No one can ever dream to count
The Jewels at the bottom of the ocean
And even a gifted poet cannot describe
The brilliant splendor of the sun
In this way, Bliss-bestowing Mother of the Universe
Who in this world is able
To tell the tale of Thy Magnificence and Glory?
Out of affectionate love for those who love Thee
Thou givest Thy Holy Vision to their eye
Thou bringest forth a blissful stream of nectar
Which like the Holy Ganga
Cleanses the world of all its sins.²
(To you Shastriji, I bow, before your indescribable Glory, as a fount of all knowledge. May everything I write be something beautiful for God and to honor you and the Divine Mother.)
PRAYING TO THE DIVINE MOTHER
Personally, I know it is time to get back to real prayer. Prayer was such a natural part of the Pilgrims daily life. Why have we lost the art of Prayer? In this day and age you hear a lot of people saying I don¹t have time to pray²; but they do have time for everything else. Here is what Gandhi said about it:
When every hope is gone, when helpers fail and comforts flee, I experience that help arrives somehow from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting, or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they (thoughts of God) alone are real, all else in unreal He also said Prayer is necessary for the soul. Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within. God demands nothing less than complete self surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having² He continues: I have found people who envy my peace. That peace comes from prayer. The more my faith in God increased, the more irresistible became the yearnings for prayer. Life seemed to me dull and vacant without it. In fact food for the body is not so necessary as prayer is for the soul² (From a pamphlet Gandhi Speaks )
We have been conditioned to think that supplication is the substance of prayer. We are always asking for something. Here again we need a major paradigm shift. I read a book once called The Prayer of Jesus by Hank Hanegraff. He said that the old paradigm for prayer is looking for techniques through which we can get God to give us our requests. But the real paradigm should be using prayer as an opportunity to develop intimacy with the
very one who kept us together in our Mother¹s Womb.! The womb is where we were really tuned in to the Divine Mother (Life Force Itself). When you get intimate with the Divine Mother, you can tune into that innocence and sweetness. If you worship God only as the Father, you may feel the image of a judge, somewhat stern and aloof. The Divine Mother
is filled with compassion and will always forgive.
DO YOU HAVE A PRAYER LIFE? If not, why not?
The secret to prayer is to have a secret place. In Matthew 6 Jesus says: ³Enter into thy closet and when thou has shut the door, pray in secret and thy God which seeth in secret shall reward you openly.² The secret to prayer is secret prayer. No matter where you chose to pray in secret, be it in a sauna, while walking alone; or whatever, I still recommend that you make a beautiful altar in your home. Just the presence of an altar reminds you of God and to think of God when you see it or walk by. It changes the energy in any home or hotel room. It you actually use the altar and relate to it and sit in front of it, you get the maximum benefit of course. The room in which you put the altar should be impeccably clean and neat. You should have a separate table for this altar. Find a beautiful altar cloth that you love. Place on the altar pictures of Dieties that are meaningful to you. It might be Jesus, Babaji, Ammachi, Mother Mary or any other particular guru. You can order these supplies from our Divine Mother Ashram in Crestone , Colorado. Call 719 256 4108 or email and they will send you a catalog. You can order sacred objects and pictures of Ammachi on her website. www.Amma.org
Place a candle on the altar and light it when you pray. Šbeing careful about fire. It is perhaps best to use candles inside a tall glass for safety in case you went out and forgot to blow out the candle. Try to keep fresh flowers on the altarŠeven one rose will do fine. Also there should be your favorite incense and a good incense holder. Soon you will add other sacred objects Šcrystals etc. and anything that makes you feel holy. One should value holiness above all else! Sometimes it helps to even put on beautiful garments when you worship and do spiritual practices (after bathing of course). I take my altar supplies with me wherever I go. The first thing I do when I arrive in a hotel room is set up my altar. The energy immediately changes in the room. I talk to the Beings on my altar, sometimes out loud. When I need to pour my heart out, I write letters to my guru and then place the letter under the altar cloth. It always works because I always take responsibility for my issues.
Outline for such a letter:
Dear Babaji or Ammachi or__________________
This is my problem now!!!.
The negative thoughts I had that created this problem were!!!
I lay these at your feet The new affirmations I am chosing now (opposite of negatives) are these Please add energy to these new thoughts..
Thankyou. Love, ( your name)
(I keep the letter under the cloth until I get the result).
Right now in these intense times, we need to actually stay on our knees. If you cannot let go and release your shadows, try lying flat out face down in front of your altar. Then you might finally start crying and this is really important and good. Pray to be able to give up all your own anger, hatred, fear, low self esteen, greed and hidden darkness . Amma says anger makes you weak in every cell of your body. You are very mistaken if you think anger makes you strong and powerful. Is there any part of you that believes that acting our your anger is justified? GIVE IT UP. The Course in Miracles says ³You will attack what does not satisfy you to avoid seeing you created it.²
Important points
l. When you pray to the Divine Mother you must address Her as though you were in Her actual presence in as much as She
IS everywhere and in everything and every person. Seek Her in your own heart. You are one with the Divine Mother also
because there is no separation. She is really without form but can take many forms. To have a concrete image of God is
like a stepping stone. The Divine Mother is creation Itself.
2. All of nature is the Mother aspect of God. Find the beauty, the gentleness and kindness in nature. Her divine
compassionate love is expressed in raindrops and colors of the rainbow etc. When you pray to Her, take notice of the
wonder and sense of the mystery of life!
3. Find your secret place , in a garden, sauna, woods, park , private patio , nearby sanctuary, in the car , or in front of your
altar. Pick somewhere
4. Put your whole burden on your whole life onto Her. There is no thought, no feeling, no yearning or desire , no matter how
trifling , that we cannot lay before the Great Cosmic Mother
5. Approach Her through love and devotion. Communicate everything. If you are to nurture a strong relationship with Her,
you must continually communicate with Her. All relationships are developed by love and compassion. Certainly pursue
your relationship with Her.
6. Fix your thoughts on Her in a way to lift your soul . In the end, a fervent Spirit is better than multitudes of words. True
prayer is another name for Love of Her. The true prayer is that of the heart.
7. Be ready to meet her half way. Know exactly what you mean to do and be fully prepared to do it..with Her help.
8. Confess your mistakes so that you can be healed. The goal should be to give yourself away to Her.
9. Develop the discipline of listening for Her Voice. The seeker after truth has to be silent
10. Keep going until you start enjoying the RICHNESS of your relationship to Her
11. Fill your inner vacuum with Her presence (instead of your addictions) so that your life can work. Receive the blessing of
sitting in the Lap of the Divine Mother and the blessing of Her skirt over you protecting you.
12. Acknowledge your dependence on Her like a child must depend on its mother Pray to become God like. Pray to become
all that you really are. ..which is A child of God.
My prayer formula #2
1. Opening: Read one or two pages in a holy book
(Suggest the ACIM text)
2. Forgiveness: State to the Divine Mother what you want to be forgiven for
State to the Divine Mother who you want to be forgiven by
State to the Divnie Mother who you want to forgive
3. Gratitude: State to the Divine Mother all the things you are grateful for
4. Petition: State the problem you face/Take responsibility for creating it.
5. Closing: Read one or two pages in a holy book (Suggest CIM lesson for the Day)
If I have not enrolled you into a prayer life by now, please look at why . Don¹t you want your vibration to be lifted out of any resonance you are not enjoying???
P.S. Remember that as you praise and bless the good you already have, it increases.
Written on Valentine¹s Day as My Gift to You!
Love , Sondra Ray!
Prayer to Create a Mate
Beloved Divine Mother, Babaji, Ammachi, Metatron, Divine Mother over all, holy spirit and all the angels and good forces necessary:
I come before you this day and prayAngel with all my heart and soul and mind to request humbly that I now receive into my life the mate to whom my love belongs, The mate of my being. Bring forth anything that I have not looked at in myself that would prevent me from receiving this now. Bring it all forward and let me work on it now. I call forth all my unfinished business so that I may finish it, so I will be ready to meet the mate of my being.
I ask for this divine dispensation in the name of Christ, and I accept this as done, as is thy will.
My beloved subconscious mind, I hereby ask and command that you take this thought from prayer with all my Mana to Vital force necessary to demonstrate this prayer to God the source of our being.
BREATHE 3 DEEP BREATHS
Beloved presence of God, Assembled Masters of God,
Let the rain of blessing fall.
THANK YOU.
AMEN
Babaji has asked me to initiate women into the Divine Mother energy. This is because everyone has suppressed the sacred feminine to such a degree that we have lost touch with our true essence. We can all see that the Patriarchy is out of control and balance is needed.
By Divine Mother we mean the feminine aspect of God/ the life force itself/ the original spark of creation. The prime creator is a female vibration. The Mother Goddess is behind all things. She is the intelligence behind matter. She is quite capable of manifesting solutions for old problems we are facing and for totally new problems we are facing. In India they say there is nothing higher than worship of the Mother.
Sri Aurobindo, the great Saint said that worship of the Mother is the final stage of perfection.
The Goddess is Love combined with power.
Would you like to be in your true power without fear?
Would you like to become all that you could be and feel safe?
Would you like a new paradigm to relate to men?
Would you like to learn how worship to the Divine Mother can achieve all?
Love and blessings , Sondra Ray!
