AT THE FEET OF THE MOTHER

Following para is from the book Shakti & Shakta by Sir John Woodroffe, Page#418 & 419-Chapter XXI-Hindu Ritual: The Wave of Bliss🌊, citing Samaya Tantra, says: “By the worship of some Deva, liberation is with difficulty attained, and by the worship of others enjoyment is to be had, but in the case of the worshipper of the Mother, both enjoyment and liberation lie in the hollow of his hands.” But, unless prayed to, the Mother or Devī does not, give fruit, and naturally so. FOR THE DEVI IS MOVED TO ACTION THROUGH THE PRAYERS OF THE WORSHIPPER. ESSENTIALLY THE WORSHIPPER IS THE DEVĪ HERSELF, AND UNLESS SHE IN HER FORM AS THE WORSHIPPER IS MOVED, SHE IN HER ASPECT AS THE SUPREME LORD—“OUR LADY” DOES NOT MOVE. I am struggling to comprehend the above lines in capital letters. Request your kind guidance.

It means that All is the Divine Mother. The forms She has built by HER power of limiting Maya are Herself in disguise. The power that moves these forms as Prakriti is also HERSELF limited to the needs of the particular form. And finally the power that can release, liberate the limited finite consciousness (within the form) into its origin, that is infinity, the Shakti is also HERSELF. As long as we remain tied to the limits of the form and its nature we are in ignorance. But a time comes when SHE opens the door and helps us realise that we too are not separate from HER, but parts and parcel of HER being  portions of HERSELF. 

Affectionately,

Alok Da

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