The Mother is always there but She acts from behind a veil through many of Her different personalities and powers. These personalities or gods and goddesses have a limited function each. This limited action and the veil is required because if the Divine Mother puts Her full Force it will crush everything and the material world itself is required because if the Divine Mother puts Her full Force it will crush everything and the material world itself would vaporise. Hence She acts through partial and limited powers that require a support from the creature. This support to the Divine Force is provided through prayer, offering, aspiration, complete faith and absolute surrender. Most human beings do not care about that. At best they do their daily ritual prayer but do not involve the Divine in everything that is happening in their everyday life. They live mechanically, pray mechanically, do even the pooja mechanically, eat and sleep mechanically, travel mechanically. As a result their life is driven by the mechanical forces of creation. The result is that they subject to all kinds of forces that operate in the material world. And the forces in the material world are exact, precise, unsparing if we make mistakes. The lesson is to do things consciously and to invoke and involve the Divine Mother in every step of our life. But most manufacturers are now driven by greed and hence humanity that is subject to these forces gets affected in one way or the other.Â
It is only those who have given themselves to the Divine and Her Service who enjoy a special Grace and Protection under all circumstances. But most human beings, including ‘devotees and followers’ live mainly for the satisfaction of desires and are attached to life through the ego-self. Hence, during a critical moment they are caught outside the zone of Protection. This especially happens if one carries fears inside as fear and doubt directly contradicts faith and opens doors to the action of the adverse forces that are always on the lookout to create disturbance and disorder. Why these adverse forces are there or allowed in creation is a different subject altogether. They are there to help us grow sincere, to awaken us through rude shocks, to make us conscious through blows coming through the doors of fear and doubt. An absolute trust and reliance upon the Divine Grace is the condition for absolute Protection. A complete self-giving and surrender is the condition for the victory over all adverse forces.
However all is never lost. There is something in us that survives death and defeat. It learns the lessons of every catastrophe and returns back, more conscious, with a greater aspiration and faith. The soul and all that was turned to the Divine is always saved carried beyond the accidents and the storms of destruction. It is only the body that dies and the body is not everything. One day the body also become perfect and completely immune to accidents, illness, old age and death. But for now, the body is the weakest spot and gets easily damaged by strong impacts. We have to therefore work towards building a true, divine body and through a collective aspiration, sincerity in thoughts and will, and right living help this world become free from the influence of the adverse forces so that these accidents do not ever take place. We are too busy with the rush and speed of life chasing desires that we often fail to listen to little hints that are coming our way to caution us against dangers. We have to learn to step back, remember and offer all to the Divine Mother and learn to listen to the little voice of the Mother in the heart and the subtle indications that Nature often provides to those who care for her.
This in a gist is the summary. In short, remember the Mother at all times and go through life full of faith and without fear. This is the secret of enjoying safety in every situation and circumstance.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
