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"Holy Mother" painted by Swami Tadatmananda

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Holy Mother By Swami Nikhilananda: 136 2-June-2016

02-06-2016 Thursday
Holy Mother By Swami Nikhilananda: 136

Spiritual Practices – 15

The concept of the Motherhood of God, and the worship of God as the Divine Mother, form a special feature of Hinduism. Sri Ramakrishna, who had his first communion with God through worship of the Divine Mother and who cherished a life-long devotion to Her, said that to worship God as Mother is the final stage in spiritual evolution. A Hindu, to be sure, worships God as Father, Friend, and Beloved, but the idea of God as Mother draws him nearest to God. According to Vedanta, Ultimate Reality, which is known as Brahman is nameless, formless, attributeless, and transcendental neutral entity. In the final non-dual experience, Brahman alone exists. The soul and the universe become one with It. It is Shakti, also called maya, the inscrutable potency of Brahman, that projects and preserves the universe and animate and inanimate beings. At the end of a cycle all names and forms return to her1 (1 Shakti, regarded as the Divine Mother, is feminine.) and remain in seed state, and at the beginning of the new cycle they all reappear in their tangible gross forms.

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Holy Mother - Being the Life of Sri Sarada Devi Wife of Sri Ramakrishna And Helpmate in his Mission By Swami Nikhilananda p: 87

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