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I would like to return here to an idea presented in an earlier part of this book, namely the idea of a feminine power cell that sits at the base of the human spine in the Muladhara chakra. Seeming to sleep and without using even a hundred-thousandth part of the energy dormant within her, She provides all the power for life’s activities, both autonomic and conscious. Often called simply Divine Mother, it is our shakti that releases within us the energy and influence of the planets in our lives as recorded in our astrological chart. Like a cosmic engine, those orbs circulate in the solar system, interact with one another, and send out their multiple vibrations. As these subtle vibrations strike our bodies at birth and then continuously throughout our lives, it is our shakti that activates their power within, causing events and circumstances to whirl around us as occurrences in daily life.
It is also our shakti that causes great waves of thought and emotion to manifest as our samsaras, those mental and emotional tendencies with which we enter life. And it is she who knows how long the span of a given incarnation will last. Desiring more time to complete his work, it was Divine Mother whom Paramahansa Yogananda entreated, sensing the end of his life drawing near. He desired just a few more years to finish his life’s work, and it was Divine Mother, his actively powerful benevolent shakti, who granted his wish.
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The influence of planets and all other forces of destiny is ultimately governed by the Divine Mother. Ordinarily however, in her state of sleep, She governs it largely through the forces of Nature and Her lesser manifestations. But once awake the individual is no more under the ordinary forces of destiny. His life is then governed more and more by the Divine Mother’s Will who can override everything. The cosmic forces of Fate then adjust automatically to the Will in Her and change even the most rigidly fixed fate.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
