Daily Prayers

Sweet and infinite Mother, Mother Divine

Maa each time our heart extends beyond one’s self, each time we are moved by a wave of sympathy to help, each time we look upon the various forms of suffering to which humanity is subject a deep compassion moves us to heal and succour. But little do we realize that all human help would count for nothing as long as we continue to cling to the root of all suffering that is Ignorance. We suffer because of the various kinds of ignorance of which the most pernicious is not knowing our true self and the Divine Presence within us. The first business of man therefore, before he can help anyone truly, before he can realise his dreams and ideals of a beautiful higher life is to discover the Divine Presence within.

The best help that anyone can truly render then is to remove this veil of Ignorance that hangs upon our soul. While all other forms of help have their place in the grand scheme of things, nothing is even remotely comparable to the help rendered by the Divine Grace that does this greatest of miracles for us. She opens the doors of wonder entering which everything changes though all may outwardly be still the same. It is truly like a new birth, like entering a new world, a world that is right there beside us, everywhere and yet it remains unfelt, unseen until the hour of Grace arrives. Then all is a wonder and glory of God and His joy that suffuses everything, sustains everything, heals everything.

Thy Grace has indeed come and all veils are falling one by one. Thou hast touched this earth and it is this that is the hope and the assurance that one day the earth shall be awakened fully to Thee. Thy Presence within us is the sign that one day all veils and masks shall be drawn away, the masks that Thou hast woven upon Thy Face lest we are blinded by Thy Glory and Light.

May the hour of Grace come for all. May all breathe Thy Joy. May all bathe in Thy Peace. May all recognise and open to Thy wonderful Grace, the doer of every miracle, the accomplisher of the seemingly impossible.

Gratitude, gratitude, gratitude, O Marvel of marvels, Wonder of wonders, beyond all we can think of and comprehend, O Love Supreme.

Maa, our sweet and infinite Mother. In this dark passage through a world enveloped by the dark clouds of Ignorance, Thy Presence is like the Ray in the dense forest where delight and danger walk arm in arm. In the life of ignorance that struggles and suffers upon earth stalked by Death, Thy Name is like the nectar drop in desert that takes away the hunger for transient objects and fills the heart with a sacred longing so that this wilderness and the desert may be transformed into Thy temple and Thy garden.

Maa, bless this earth, bless this humanity, bless us all so that cleansed and purified of the dross Thy wonderful Presence shine through the flesh and Thy flame of beauty and love grow strong and spread wide in this lamp of clay. May we shed the dark attire of ignorance and all in us grow luminous and beautiful and
bright.

May all awaken to this sacred longing for Thee. May all taste the sweet nectar of Thy Love. May all be enveloped by Thy Peace and Light and Grace.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Come Mother, come! Come, O Mother Divine, Mother of Beauty, Love and Delight, come in Thy gracious form of Mahalakshmi, as the eternal charmer who holds the key to the mystic doors of love. O Beauty unparalleled whose heart is the flaming door to ecstasies, come to O Mother of Beauty and Bliss, open our heart to Thy sweetness and love. Sweet Harmony that dwells in all things, hidden behind the outer crust of hardness and harshness, come, O Mother, make us entirely plastic to Your touch, melt us, refine us, remould us, join us forever to Thee in the smithy of Thy Love. Forge our life into a beautiful and harmonious rhythm of Thy delight. Rebuild us with the substance of Thy Light.

May all grow harmonious and beautiful.
May all grow tranquil and happy.
May all open to Thy Sweetness and Love.

Mother Divine, Maa it is Thy touch that redeems matter and our material existence. The mind is freed from Ignorance by Thy Light that illumines the darkest corners covered with the veil of ignorance. The heart is released from its subjection to narrowness and smallness, bitterness and pettiness and grief by the opening of its inner chambers to the influx of Thy Sweetness and Love. Life can find its repose and regain its force and joy by turning towards Thee and consecrating all our actions to Thee. But for the physical self, for the body, the release from the law of suffering, pain and death can only come by receiving Thy direct touch upon matter and thence, touching each body through contagion, redeem our material existence by the pressure of Thy transforming Love.

Such is the mystery, the inner reason for Thy Divine Incarnation. It is not just to give a teaching or to open a wide and new path but most importantly to redeem this fallen substance of which our bodies are made.

May all open to Thy transforming touch, may all be redeemed by the touch of Thy Love and be freed from the law of ignorance, suffering and eventually from Death.

As Thou Willest, as Thou Willest.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine,  life without Thee, without being aware of Thee is indeed a wasteland, a vain pursuit of meaningless things, an absurd tale without sense, a drifting show of objects in Space that are hollow without substance or any reality,  like cinematic images floating on the mind’s screen.

And yet how strong is the grip of ignorance that we are impressed by the show and take it as real while forgetting even to look deeper for Thee who alone makes everything true and gives value to life. It is as if one is playing with the chaff while leaving the little grain of gold, Thy Divine Presence, unseen, unfelt. And yet once the grain is glimpsed and tasted we can never be satisfied with the husk alone. The grain of gold is perhaps hidden so carefully to spare man a premature effort which he may not be ready for. Even Thy hiding is a compassion and Thy revealing Thyself an even greater Grace. 

But perhaps the time of the long preparation is over and man will more and more turn his gaze from playing with the mud to the stars and the sun from where we have come. The signs are to be found in the children of today in whom the grain of gold has begun to ripen and shine through the husk.

Grant, O Mother Divine that man may wake up, discover and know Thy Presence within and reslise that all his outer achievements remain incomplete and even illusory and vainglorious without Thee, like the husk without the grain.

May all have the joy of turning towards Thee, of breathing Thy atmosphere, of bathing in Thy Love, of discovering Thee. May all open to Thy Grace, O marvellous Reality, supreme Truth, the Source of all Peace and Love and Light and Sweetness and Might and Power and Strength and Beauty and Bliss.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Supreme Mother, Mother Divine

Maa long have we wandered along the circuitous roads of Ignorance, often circling around the same spot in the illusion of progress. Long have we been lost in the forest of Ignorance tasting the sweet-bitter fruits and drinking muddy waters from the streams of desire. Long have we been entangled in the fruitless labour of digging the hard crust of earth nature hoping to plant there the tree of Divine Love but gathering only the blooms of asphodel. Long have we tried to hear the whispers of the winds in deserts for the rhythms of the higher worlds.

Let the rejuvenating waters of Thy Divine Love pour upon this barren soil so that the womb of ignorance delivers the offspring of New Creation. Let Thy Rays smite the darkness so that the golden sunlit Path appears everywhere. May the illusions vanish and in its place grow forms luminous and and bright. May the sweet nectarous streams washing Thy Feet flow into the forest of life and the trees bear the fruits of paradise. May the soil of human nature grow plastic to Thy touch and the deathless Rose bloom and the golden harvest reaped. May the vast stretches of desert whisper Thy melodious notes in the Silence of the human night. May this earth shed her worn-out and sullied attire and wear a bright and beautiful dress consistent with her deepest truth. May our human life be transformed into the Life Divine.

Om Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine, Thou who reignest over all and yet have chosen to be among us, as one of us, to Thee our infinite gratitude.  Thou who art beyond all laws and yet who has become the Law to guide this world out of chaos, through a progressively ascending order, towards the supreme freedom, our infinite gratitude to Thee.

Thou who art beyond all perceptions and conceptions and yet have willfully come down into the cabin of the idea and the limits of our experience, to Thee our infinite gratitude.

Thou for whom the system of worlds are too small and yet have chosen to make earth your home, to Thee our infinite gratitude.  Thou who art the Timeless Mystery beyond Time and yet have chosen to bless one earthly hour with Thy divinely human play, to Thee our infinite gratitude.  Thou whom even the gods cannot reach and yet who has come down to dwell in our human heart, to Thee our infinite gratitude.

To Thee, by Thy Grace, we aspire to give all our being in entirety, – soul, mind, heart, life, body, work and all that we yet call ours and ourselves in ignorance of the Truth that all is Thyself, receive our humble offering. Take us as we are and make us how You would want us to be.

To Thee our infinite gratitude.

Mother Divine, Sweet and infinite Mother.

Maa You are the sovereign of our life, the Master of our destinies.

Maa You are the Light in our mind, the Love in our heart, the Force in our life, the health and strength in our body.

May our life be woven by threads of Thy harmony. May our moments be time-beats of Thy eternity. May our actions express the rhythms of Thy infinity.

May all be a dance of Thy beauty and sweetness and bliss.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Sweet and infinite Mother, Mother Divine

We are Thine for all eternity. Receive our humble offering, the offering of our self and life and all we are and do. Accept our surrender and make us Thy true children and worthy instruments to serve Thee and fulfil Thy Will in the world.
Maa show us the way, open all the roads that lead us to Thee, give us the unflinching faith to walk the Sunlit Path with complete confidence in Thy Grace. Give us the endurance to go through the journey, the determination and the perseverance needed to arrive at the goal, the calm courage that never falters, the aspiration that never sinks, the patience that never fails. Fill our hearts with the purest devotion and Love for Thee.

With completest submission and gratitude we bow to Thee, O Love Supreme.