At the Feet of The Mother
Essays on Yoga
This revival cannot be by vigilantes and self-proclaimed Hindus but by those who live the truth of the Vedas and the Gita, who realize the deep teachings of the Upanishads and put it into their daily thoughts and feelings and actions.
Often the modern readers tend to turn these wonderful epics merely into stories with social and moral themes. Naturally when the stories do not neatly fit into these definitions then all kinds of explanations are built either to justify or else to denounce the epic.
While deconstruction often destroys the real intrinsic value of the myth by taking away its very soul, decoding gives it a universal value that is applicable for all times to come.
To open to the Mother's Presence it is enough to remember Them in the heart and pray and aspire silently even while engaged in all the different activities, but the most powerful without a doubt is Namajapa of Her Name.
The right moment has arrived, the season has changed and slowly or suddenly there bursts out of the soil of human nature a new shoot, tender and small yet carrying within it hope and new possibilities of the future.
While a certain degree of structure is needed in any collective prayer, there is always a danger that it becomes too mechanical and rigid and starts losing its purpose.
Surrender means many things which can be arranged in a graded manner. First of all, it means handing over the responsibility of one’s life and destiny. even of one's work and sadhana, to the Divine.