BY WORSHIP, BY CHANTING, BY MEDITATING, THE DIVINE ASPECT OF THE
MOTHER—GOD, AS YOU MAY SAYBEGINS TO PURIFY YOU. IN THIS WAY, YOU
WILL SEE YOUR DIVINE ENERGY CROP UP SOONER, MORE EASILY, RATHER THAN
JUST BY THINKING, RATIONALIZING AND ANALYZING, “WHO IS GOD?
WHO IS GODDESS?”

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      She is that nature; She is that manifestation; She is that glow of the flame; She is the flower’s perfume wafting in the air. When you begin to see this you will discover that your nature, your mind, your vitality, your whole body—veins, blood, speech, thoughts, your everything—is a manifestation from you, and this manifestation is Divine Mother. You will see your own energy and power coming up. You will awaken. The greatest Vedantists such as Shankaracharya—leave aside those dry seekers on the way who condemn dualism and Mother—have ultimately worshipped Mother Divine, Sharada, Tara, Durga, Her many forms. Divine Mother you can call by any name you want; among different religions they have different names.
      In the dualistic sense we worship because we exist in a relative plane—we couldn’t do otherwise. By worship we mean just one thing: the mind gets purified. Genuine worship—not just ritualistic—purifies the mind. And that brings us nearer to that divine energy. As soon as you genuinely worship Divine Mother—in whatever way you envision Her—you get purified and then that divine energy awakens in you. Once it begins to awaken, you will see that it is your will, your power that was lacking in you. Therefore such things as disease, loss of peace, frustrations, miseries or negativities crop up because of weakness, selfishness, the ego itself.

      By worship, by chanting, by meditating, the divine aspect of the Mother—God, as you may say—begins to purify you. And it is so easy! They say She is easily pleased. In this way, you will see your divine energy crop up sooner, more easily, rather than just by thinking, rationalizing and analyzing, “Who is God? Who is Goddess?” All the analysis and jugglery of the brain gives you some kind of determination but never purifies. Therefore we say to be humble so that you tumble down to seeking in the right direction, so that you do not think you know much. Because when you think you know much, you do not go forward. You stop there. Humility opens the doors so you can proceed, because now you know that you do not know much. Humility will make your head bow down to Divine Mother to worship, and then that purifies further. Otherwise ego gets stuck, stubborn, especially an ingrained nature. Humility is a virtue to get you to open up to receive. Intellect does not worship, the heart does. Those who condemn devotion will never achieve nondualism. They will remain still below dualism, in multiplicity.
      So, if you see Divine Mother’s inseparability, like a glow from the candle, perfume from the flower, then you achieve Her secret, that She is with you. You have only to recognize this. There is no use saying Divine Mother is greater or Divine Father is greater. Do not separate this way. Then Her power begins to awaken in you, the energy you need, the strength you need. That strength is a virtue, whereas weakness is a vice that creates so many negative things: selfishness, lack of peace, disease. Even if you keep up your fort: “I’m great, I’m arrogant, I’m just willful,” it does not give you what you want. You can hang on but why continue to be miserable?
 



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