Daily Prayers

Mother Divine, You take care of all the countless creatures and their needs in ways we cannot even conceive, through seen and unseen hands. It is You who impels the heart and moves the hands that give, You who brings together the giver and the receiver, yet each thinks it is he who is helping. The one receiving the help too believes it is the man who helped not seeing the Power that moved his heart and the circumstances that brought things and people together by Thy agent of execution, Time. Man’s eyes are limited to the outer fields and appearances and knows not the Power that drives the engines of life from behind. Perhaps this illusion too is necessary at a certain stage so that we may put in the effort, else even when You would impel, man will refuse to do his bit which is part of the needed instrumentality in the totality of Thy cosmic play.

If only we could do what You bid us to do knowing fully that it is Your Knowledge that impels, Your Force that executes, Your Wisdom that determines the outcome and Your Love that carries us through it all, then life would be so much simpler, free of complications. But man’s mind prefers to keep Thee aside, shuts Thee in the cabin of his ideas or in the confines of a place as if he is the doer and he the enjoyer of the fruits. But by doing so he only limits Thy action, though only apparently so, since Thou art everywhere and in everything. What a relief it is to know that Thou art the sole doer while engaged in every action, to know that all is Thine while outwardly engaged in giving and getting.

May all be granted this release that comes by knowing that it is Thou alone who art playing in different forms, that there is nothing else but Thee.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine,
the gap between where humanity stands today, even at its very best, highest and noblest, and where You have willed to take us seems like an impossibility, if we look at it from our side. Even great Yogis and Tapaswis would not be able to achieve or even conceive of it in their highest flights that comes to an abrupt close with samadhi, that trance of annulment waiting to be absorbed back into the Silence. But Your Will and Divine Command for us is not losing oneself in the Divine but to manifest Him in each and every field and detail of life. It is the work of a New Creation here, in every activity and mode of being, a work impossible but for Thy Grace. It is relatively easy to cut oneself from the crowded tramp of life and live in Thy ecstatic contemplation. But to live in this great divided world where each thing seems its lonely separate self while seeing oneness everywhere is a far more difficult thing.

Yet when we look at Thy infinite Grace then this seems not only possible but certain. For the whole creation hints at this, a oneness behind and differentiation outside. Oh, to be a channel fully open to Thee so that Thy Divine Forces may pour upon earth, unhindered and unobstructed by our egoism, fears, doubts and desires. Oh, to be very simply what Thou wouldst want us to be without preferences of being this or that. To choose what You would choose for us, to execute what Thou wouldst Will is peace and felicity, the supreme consummation, the Divine way to live.

To will what Thou Willest is to be Divine.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine,
may we wake up to Thy all-transfiguring Love and Thy wonderful Grace whose alchemist power knows no limits and can change even the dullest, most obscure material into a lamp of Thy Light. It is only natural that this be so because it is this wonderful Grace that has engaged in this labour of love pulling creation out of its fallen Inconscient state. It knows all the steps, It has marshalled all the forces that have gone into creation, It has the detailed knowledge of the complex and intricate fabric of creation. What we call nature is simply a small frontal play brought out by Thee to prepare us for Thy vaster play. And what we know as Supernature, whose miraculous interventions baffles our intelligence is simply one aspect of Thy working, incomprehensible and hence abnormal to our limited mind but perfectly normal to Thee. It is our limited understanding that refuses to believe that everything is possible if You so Will. Your Grace can work out the seemingly impossible, that which our highest imagination and conception cannot know. Hence we call it a random play or a Chance event. Or else we give it the ubiquitous name of miracle. Or limit the free action of an infinite Wisdom by hedging it with systems and philosophies and rules of life and theories that explain action and consequence. Yet in our haste to explain we miss the one most important single factor, Thy incalculable immeasurable Grace that overtops and overrides everything. It uses rules as well as transcends them.

Yet there is a method in this seemingly random game and Chance and Fate are simply words that display our ignorance of the deeper working. Even what we call as accidents of Time or label it as whims and fancies of an arbitrary Creator carries within it the stamp of a far-seeing Wisdom that knows Its steps and uses all means, even the most seemingly contradictory to arrive at Its prefigured Goal. What is marvelous is that this is as much true for an individual as for nations and the world. Once we begin to glimpse this infinity, this wonderful Grace, this marvelous Love then our hearts are at complete rest and peace and our hope has no limits.

May all be blessed with this vision and this Hope.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine,
everyday You open so many windows to reach out to us and one who is waiting and attentive can contact Thee in and through even the most insignificant things. In fact the whole universe speaks to us of Thee if we care to see. But we are closed in our heart and bound by our thoughts and hence miss the golden moment. But from to time Thy sweet voice is heard in the depths of the heart, a Voice, full of sweetness and strength, carrying with it the conviction and the certitude of Truth’s Victory against all that opposes it. It rises in the depths of the soul as a song of Love that never dies, as a hymn of Joy that never tires, of the triumph of Light that dwells in all things covered with dense darkness. And once we attune ourselves to this beautiful Voice so full of Sweetness and Love, then we begin to hear it everywhere and in everything. With it comes supreme hope and the deliverance from all anxieties and fears.

Maa, Thou art the hope of the world, Thou art the goal of our journey,. Thou art the path that takes us straight to the highest good our souls can seek. Thou art the strength that helps us walk upon the Path, the Light that leads, the Love that ensures the Victory.

All is Thy Play with Thyself as the Play and the players.

Om Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa.

Mother Divine,
from time to time a breath of Thy Grace passes upon the human, struggling here upon earth, as if to wipe off all its sweat and tears. This wonderful Grace then takes man and earth in Her arms of infinite Mercy and Love. Your kiss of Love wakes us out of the nightmare and we perceive another world float before our eyes, a world of Truth, a world of ageless Beauty and endless charm, a world ringing sweet symphonies of Thy Love. This other world is so close to us, indeed it is our truest Truth and we ourselves dwell there as citizens. Yet we feel it far just as a person who is asleep wanders far even though the world where he truly lives is right there, always there, beside us. All that is needed is to open our eyes and see.

When our sleep is too dense as when we are sunk in tamas, we feel not the kiss. Then perhaps a shake-up is needed for our souls to wake to the truth of things. When we are enjoying the dream chasing illusory joys and running away from ghostlike shadows, then too we do not feel the kiss. We are too busy running here and there to take note. But when we try, in whatever limited way, to lead a truer and more beautiful life, to progress beyond our present limitations, when our ignorance becomes a seeking ignorance which wants to know the meaning and purpose of it all, then we feel the gentle touch, the kiss that wipes away all tears, and hear the whisper that enchants our hearts forever. Once we have felt this even for a moment our hearts can never rest and sleep again until we have found our Divine Beloved and his eternal embrace.

Maa, may all wake up to this blessedness. May all have the joy of feeling Thy embrace that rends the knot of suffering and pain forever.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine, Maa,

may we live by the high and noble ancient Ideals. Neither for ourselves, nor for others, may we live for the Divine in us and in humanity and the world. May we shun all that is small and narrow, selfishly turned upon itself.

May our thoughts fly in vast luminous zones of Truth and our actions lead us through the mountain climb as pilgrims walk towards the temple of the deity they adore. May our feelings emerge from the deepest and luminous depths from the heart’s mystic cave carrying the light and streams of rejuvenating love to earth and men.

May our will no more strain and struggle after temporary longings and transient gains but, freed from the clutch of desires, strive rightly towards great ends and mighty deeds in the service of Truth and Light.

And may all in us give itself unconditionally to the Thee, O sweet Beloved of our souls and Thy work of terrestrial transformation.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Supreme Mother,
may all misery and suffering be washed away in the purifying rain of Thy Grace.
May all be healed, filled and fulfilled with the waters of Thy Divine Love. May the fire of sacrifice be lit up in human heart and the day become a happy pilgrim march towards Thy Home of Beauty and Light. May the ways of Truth be found and shedding the dark attire of ignorance, may our souls breathe Thy infinite Force, drink the sweet invigorating nectar of Thy Divine Love, grow stronger by Thy Delight and the human world be filled with Thy Harmony and Peace.

May we live no more by appearances but by the vision of Truth, no more by the fanciful play of desires but by the law of Truth, no more by the ignorant ideas of self and world but by the knowledge of Truth.

Om Tat Sat

Om Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine, there seems to be not one destiny but several destinies that chase us as we move through life. Each of these pulls some part of us in a direction that would open doors to one set of events and experiences. Each of these pulls, if accepted, puts us in the corresponding network of forces leading to a certain result. Each of these is an unfinished curve of our evolutionary journey, an unfinished tale whose threads are lost in some deep crypt of nature. Ultimately all these several destinies eventually lead us to Thee, for Thou art there at the core and circumference of everything, Thou art the eternal wayfarer who walks on every path as well as the goal of all our journeys. Yet when we choose to be pulled in one direction and then another, we go through the crisscross chequered board of life, a crablike crawl with an endless list of pleasure and pain. Desire and pleasure are the hooks through which nature pulls us along the long serpentine roads of Time. The experience gained, she uses pain to put us back on the straight and sunlit road that leads us to Thee through the broad and beautiful spaces of the soul. Thus, we move until one day we hear Your call and heed it.

Then all other distracting destinies begin to close, they drop off like dust from our feet when we reach home and bathe in the purifying streams of Your love. We receive whatever experience we still need through certain events and circumstances, people and situations, either in our subjective self or, if the pull is too strong, through a brief brush with them, yet held safe in Your hands ensuring that the road to the highest destiny is never lost. In fact, every experience turns into a feeder to progress fast and grow closer and closer to Thee.

Oh, what a supreme assurance it is, what a blessing and a blessedness to turn to Thee and walk smoothly, held by Thy hand, or carried in Thy arms upon the broad and clear highway that leads straight to Thee. For he who has found Thee there is but one destiny, – to be one with Thee, everywhere and in everything, in every state of being, at every level of consciousness, in every domain of being, Thee only Thee.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Maa, Beloved Supreme, may our hearts, fully enamored by Thee, be bound to Thee with chords of faith, devotion and love. May this love translate itself not only in outer worship, not only in feelings but in concrete acts of Thy service and submission to Thy Will.

May Thy sacred fire burn in each corner of our being, may its radiance enter each cell, may its power express in every act, may its beauty glow in every form unhindered and unobstructed by this hard and dense material cover.

May all the quarters chant Thy Name and every heart sing Thy Glory. May all be resplendent by Thy Light, filled with Thy Peace and in harmony with all existences.

May all be full of Thee, moved by Thee towards Truth and Beauty and Bliss, O Wonder of wonders, Glory of glories, O Marvellous One.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa