Worshipping The Divine Mother!

By on April 3, 2009 in Spirituality

From Universal Collective Prayer

As today is the last day of Nav Ratri and a Friday normally considered auspicious in Hinduism for the worship of the Divine Mother and in anticipation of a certain pilgrimage of mine in the morn I ask you to pray, ponder and meditate on the following aspects of the Divine Mother as intepreted through Universal Collective Prayer…
 

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Engineer by profession and writer at heart. I was setting up a website as a space to collect and share all my writings but my mind tends to wander...So one night while working on the website a manicou at my gate distracted me and inspired me to write & produce a children's theatre production- 'Me Eat Manicou?' instead! It was a tale that incorporated my love for animals, the forest and all things magical! Later on I wandered back to blogging to praise a coffee that is native to my country of Trinidad and Tobago-Hong Wing. Then a man decided to light a candle4tibet and I joined in with deeyas too! I've been a blogger ever since. My blogs chronicle my life's journey as a whole with topics covering almost any aspect of it. However you will often find posts about my exploration of sustainable development, social entrepreneurship and all things metaphysical but most importantly (and I've set up an entirely separate blog for this) my exploration of this thing I call UCP-Universal Collective Prayer! So let the Purple Elephant and Little Mouse be your guide as you read our tales! ;)
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4 Responses to Worshipping The Divine Mother!

  1. mydomainpvt April 3, 2009 at 8:29 am #

    beautiful post babita, thanks a lot again for sharing.

    sweetest angel,
    :)

  2. meadysmusings April 3, 2009 at 1:28 pm #

    hugs and kisses back sharms!

  3. Hello April 6, 2009 at 3:44 am #

    Hi, Babita. I watched two of these videos so far. The first one I stopped after a while because it made me smile a bit with all the violence but the second one I really appreciated. Thank you for sharing this beautiful inspiring and fantastically performed artwork. There is so much RICHNESS in hindu art and icons.

    The clip with mother Mary was also inspiring. I have never come that close to catholic worship, living in a sekularised protestant country with agnostic parents. Not that I'm complaining. I'm grateful for the freedom it has given me. Now I feel I understand better why some catholics are so intense about defending their faith, which means alot to me. I love understanding, thank you :)

    Repairing her heart… beautiful. The Holy Mother, indeed….However the thought strikes me that if they want to repair her heart maybe they shouldn't keep depicting it with swords and arrows in it and keep reminding themselves about her suffering. It seems they repeat the cycle every sunday? Poor spirit of motherhood…

    Love to you, Babsy! I hope you are doing well.

    Sara

  4. meadysmusings April 6, 2009 at 11:24 am #

    Hey Sara….Fairy Godmother…Maa Durga she is a strong form of Shakti in Hinduism…pretty independent and yep can appear fierce at times…notice her chariot is usually a tiger or a lion…and they alone can do real damage…she is know to kill many a demon a.ka. raksha in Hinduism and so yep can come across as violence or fierce…but it is just the eternal battle between good and evil…a turmoil within…it is just the iconography of it my dear Godmother….

    About the Mary one …dunno I dont see it like you…in feeling the pain of her and Jesus…I don't know for me it is deeply spiritual…you have to go deep within and feel it then come back out of it…the reason it is repeated I believe if cause we need to continually go in and feel deeply until we become enlightened…upon enlightenment we can feel the pain but be inwardly disidentified to it…or detached….in Hinduism it is said to be loving but detached…different from just ignoring it or not going into it…which is the mistake many make…

    You have to feel pain before you can transcend it and that does not come easily…in my understanding of Jesus he never became detached to it but what he did…you see he was the greatest Bhakti yogi….so after he felt and took the whole pain and sufferring of the entire human race on him…he said to the father…the lord of the Universe …or the Universe…God….to take it from him…he then made the ultimate surrender….he offerred it all up to the Lord or the Universe…and it is in that moment he became one with it…enlightened…due to his Ultilmate Surrender….but it is the process of going into the pain….feeling the pain of others…so much compassion….that made him capable of this ultimate surrender….it showed him the way…the love and the light…so in reflecting on the pain of him and his mother the Holy Virgin Mary…I think we learn from them…and become ourselves closer one day to the Ultimate Surrender…