Daily Prayers

Mother Divine,
how much beauty You have lavished upon earth and in such abundance and variety as if all the moods of Infinity found a just place and right balance. The dangerous and the delightful, the vast and the tiniest, all have been woven together in a rich and harmonious tapestry that is constantly changing its hues and scents and colours. There may be life elsewhere and surely there must be but perhaps nowhere could be found this richness of forms than here, upon earth.

Yet amidst all this wonderful harmony and the sense of unity, man seems to be alone and isolated, locked within his mind which is a world in itself, a world that is often not in harmony with the rest, a world often restless, anxious, afraid, turbulent, looking for a safe and stable spot, a secure space where all is peace and beauty and bliss. Yet he refuses to make effort in finding the true and lasting solution as if afraid of losing his littleness that acts as a comfort zone in the vast blue infinity. He has trimmed his wings, tied them neatly and coloured them with impressive colours. But he is afraid to use them for the one main purpose which is to soar and fly.

Maa, for millions of years man has moved as a nomad still searching for his stable home, the home from where he wandered here. Now the day of redemption, the moment of return, with all the experience gained, has come by Thy Grace. Let this Divine hour be not wasted Mother. Let there be no more wanderings any further. We implore Thee, with whatever strength we can summon to fulfill the Yoga this time so that we cross over the perilous bridge from the human to the Divine without lapsing back into the old stupidities. May the earth no more suffer its shadow nor man suffer the fall.

Om Anandamayee Chaitanyamayee Satyamayee Parame

Mother Divine, Maa,
of all the bondages of ignorance, one of the most difficult seems to be human attachments. Even when the heart is free of any longing, yet it suffers from the sufferings of those whom we love and responds to the vibration of true love. Though love itself can be and ought to be beautiful but it tends to get mixed in weak and narrow vessels with egoistic sentimentality, demands and passions and thence degrades into lust and attachments. Very soon its innocence, purity, beauty and intensity is lost in the whirlpool of desires, or its beautiful face gets covered and distorted with insecurities, fears, and will to dominate and worse things to which history has been a witness. Or else it turns into a tepid routine of duty no longer fed by the flaming tongue of sacrifice. Of all the Godheads, Love is the most demanding. If Ananda requires a complete abolition of desires and pleasure seeking, Love demands a complete self-giving, a glad sacrifice of all one is, without any demand, even of acknowledgement or reciprocation. That is why even when love turns towards Thee to realise its highest possibility, it is unable to soar beyond bhakti and devotion full of demands, to utter love, self giving and abandonment to Thee, demanding nothing except the joy of loving Thee eternally.

Maa, Thou hast taught us by example the great Secret of Love. Thou hast unraveled the great Mystery of Love. Thou hast set into motion the Highest, Intensest, Purest vibration of Love in our hearts. Thy Love purifies, redeems, transforms all with joy and in such a beautiful way that it all seems natural and effortless. Sadhana becomes easy and spontaneous rather than a thing strenuous requiring great effort of tapasya and will. Just to open to Thee and give oneself completely is enough.

Grant that we may be ready for this love and all in us respond to the touch of Thy wonderful Love, O sweet Beloved.

Mother, O Mother, Mother Divine, make us entirely Thine. Thine in everyway, Thine everywhere, Thine for all eternity.

Maa may all effort and impulsion and prompting of our will impel us towards Thee.

May each quiver in the brain and nerve say Maa Maa Maa.

May each pulsation of the heart say Maa Maa Maa

May each twitching of the muscles be Maa Maa Maa

May each longing and passion cry Maa Maa Maa

May each desire reach out to Thee saying Maa Maa Maa

May each feeling run towards Thee whispering Maa Maa Maa

May each thought climb towards Thee on wings of Thy Name Maa Maa Maa

May each cell, each pore of our body radiate Maa Maa Maa

May each sense rush out to receive and greet Thee in every form and name with Maa Maa Maa

May we become full of Maa Maa Maa, completely and in all entirety Maamaya, Maa Maa Maa Maa

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine, Maa,
let our heart become a transparent mantle of Thy Love. May Thy Love radiate far and wide joining all hearts harmoniously in a vast embrace. May Thy Love transform us so completely that nothing of the old untransformed movements remains and all is made of a single weft of Thy Love. May Thy Love be the Victor over all resistances releasing the divinity hidden behind appearances. May Thy Love enter our brain filling our nerves with its transforming nectar. May Thy Love enter our heart and turn it into a temple, an abode of Her Permanent Presence. May Thy Love impel our life and all its movements and fill our breath with its fragrance. May Thy Love penetrate the body entering deep into our limbs and organs and tissue and cells. May all become a single continuous flow of Thy Love.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Sweet Mother, Mother Divine

Mother of Beauty, Wisdom and Might, wake up the sleeping lions of Bharat, fill them with your energy so that they may become strong and luminous vehicles for Thy Light and Force to radiate all around, dispelling the darkness with their roar. Come, Mother come, dispel the darkness, slay the inner enemies whose names are lust and greed and vanity and egoism. Shatter the forts of gloom and the citadels of falsehood. Most of all, Mother Divine, chase away all fear and inertia that holds us back from joining Thy triumphal march.

Mother Divine, let our earth be cleansed completely of all vibrations of evil that pollute the minds of men. Enter into our hearts and mind and inspire us, children of the Earth, towards high and noble thoughts and feelings. Enter our life and body and move our will and actions towards the beauty of the luminous future. Fill us with hope that never dies, the faith that regards nothing impossible by Thy Grace, the strength that never tires, the wisdom that sees Thy Light that is working in the deepest abyss, the Love that knows to labour endlessly and selflessly.

Maa all our being lies at Thy Feet in Thy worship, in Thy adoration, in Thy Service and Thy Love.

Jai Maa Jai Maa Jai Maa Jai Maa Jai Maa

Sweet Mother,
many are the stealth doors through which the forces of division enter us. Our body emerging from the Inconscient through a long laborious evolution still has openings where the forces of darkness levy the tax of Night. Many are the doors through which the fires of hell assail and leave a stain of illness and the stench of sin. Many are the enemies of the soul, – fear, lust, greed, egoism, vanity, anger, jealousy and the rest, that oppose the shining passage of the soul. And yet one moment of true love for Thee, a little call, an intense aspiration can dispel them as the sun scatters all darkness and the rain washes the earth releasing its concealed fragrance, as the winds drive away the clouds.

May Thy Grace-Light flood our being and purify it of all dust. May Thy Love fill every abyss and gap through which the demons of the subconscient peep into the rooms of mind and body and life trying to pollute it with their breath. May all be cleansed and purified and made ready for Thy Permanent Presence, not only within for that is confirmed fact, but in each and every part turning each cell into Thy rapturous abode.

Let darkness yield to Thy living Light and be chased completely from the breast of the Earth.

Let the forts of fear and gloom where falsehood dwells be demolished entirely and in its place grow the castle of Truth.

Let all suffering cease in Thy Delight and Death be vanquished by Life growing steadily with firm steps towards Thee.

Let Thy Divine Love govern the world.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Jai Jai Maa Jai Jai Maa

Maa,
may all weakness and infirmity disappear. May we grow strong by Thy Strength, mighty in resolve, free from all indolence, inertia and negligence in Thy service. Maa let the fires of Thy Love and the sweet intensities of Thy Light purify us to the last atom of existence so that all in us become Thy fiery rapturous abode. May each cell dance with joy to Thy tune, each nerve and fibre respond to Thy call. May our mind and thoughts be so completely identified with Thee so as to be constantly suffused with Thy Light and our hearts drenched in Thy Love be stilled by the abundance of Thy Love, receiving and lavishing it upon all Thy creatures, discovering Thy Unity and sweet Harmony everywhere and in all. May our life be a perpetual miracle of Thy Grace touching and sanctifying every action, purifying it of the mud and dross of desires and egoism and self will and ignorance. May we become a radiant lamp of Thy Light and Love and may our earthly existence bring something of Thy Peace and Glory and Hope amidst all, filling each loneliness with Thy felicity.

Make us Thy worthy children Maa, full of Thee, full of Thy Peace and Light and Love.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine,
Root out from us all petty egoism and selfishness that are spread out in the very stuff of our life like slippery grains hoping us to stumble or to mix in the pure wine of Thy Divine Bliss drops of bitter poison. But what defects or difficulties can stay before the inrush of Thy all-transfiguring Love that washes away all impurities and even the most sticky stains of the past. Indeed Thy Grace cleanses us so completely that not only the tendencies that forge the iron chain of karma are gone but even the consequences of the past are dissolved as if by a magic solvent. The difficulties that assail us for decades (or perhaps lives) are broken in a moment by the action of Thy Grace making one wonder how illusory is our feeling of incapacity. This illusion arises because of our sense of separateness, and it is needed if we regard ourselves as separate from Thee. For there cannot be anything limitless for one who is ‘separate’. But for one whom Thou hast adopted and has tied to Thee forever there can be no limit to what is possible. For one carried by Thee, life becomes a beautiful song of the soul, the long and difficult journey turns into a perpetual delight, the stones on the way become steps of the ascension and the thorns turn as if magically into flowers yielding their secret truth.

O Mother Divine, Thy Grace is indeed infinite and Thy Power is limitless. It is we who refuse to open due to insufficient faith, it is we who aspire for little like beggars asking for small doles before the King of kings. Or we give up soon driven by impatience of our longings that come between You and us like bars of a prison.

Open us, O Mother Divine to Thy limitless Peace and Light. Open the prison of the ego, break us free from the bars of desire. Let our flight be Thy infinity and eternity.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine, Mother of Beauty, Light and Love, fill all the spaces within us with Thy fragrance. May all be sanctified by Thy touch. May there be nothing hidden behind covers that we yet call and hold as our own. May all we are, all we have, all we do belong to Thee alone. Make us Thy empty whole and then fill this zero with Thyself, Thy Peace, Thy Ananda, Thy Beauty, Thy Force, Thy Love. And may these and all Thy countless gifts at each moment be only and only for Thee, for Thy Work and Thy Service.

Maa, may we be released completely, not only our soul but nature from the lower network of forces. May we be moved and driven completely and in all our entirety by Thy infinite Radiance and Force. Release us from all ignorance and darkness. Free us from ourselves, O, Mother Divine. Chase away all self-will and egoism and desire from each and every corner of our being.

Maa empty our mind of all the stereotypes of Ignorance and fill it with the Light of Truth. Maa empty our heart of all attachments and narrowness and fill it with Thy sweetness and universal Love that we can share with all. May empty our life of all desires and selfishness and fill it with Thy luminous Force and Delight. Maa empty our body cells of all habits and past impressions and fill it with Thy Beauty and Harmony and Peace. Maa may all the karmic impressions be dissolved and transmuted into links of Thy golden Light.

Mother Divine, may this world be freed from the clutch of the Asura who yet holds the world in its hard iron grip. May all that opposes the world’s forward march, the enemies within and without that threaten Thy beautiful earth be destroyed and vanquished forever. Leaving behind the past may we wake up to the beautiful future and summoning faith and courage, fuelled by the fire of aspiration, supported on wings of love and devotion, held by Thy infinite Grace take a leap towards the future.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa