Mother and Daughter, Linda & Katie

Our mother plays a crucial role in our childhood: This is true for all 8 billion of us living on this planet. None of us would have survived without our mother’s love. Such is the law of nature. Fathers play an important role, too, but at the beginning of life, our mother is irreplaceable. She is closest to the body, heart, and spirit of her child. It is she who gave us birth and brought us into the world. Experiencing this primordial link is decisive. As children grow up, they feed on maternal affection as much as they feed on milk.

The famous Indian Avatar Sri Ramakrishna points out the following in this powerful story: 

“The Divine Mother revealed to me in the Kali temple that it was She who had become everything. She showed me that everything was full of Consciousness. The image was Consciousness, the altar was Consciousness, the water-vessels were Consciousness, the doorsill was Consciousness, the marble floor was Consciousness — all was Consciousness. I found everything inside the room soaked, as it were, in Bliss — the Bliss of God. I saw a wicked man in front of the Kali temple; but in him also I saw the power of the Divine Mother vibrating. That was why I fed a cat with the food that was to be offered to the Divine Mother. I clearly perceived that all this was the Divine Mother — even the cat. The manager of the temple garden wrote to Mathur Babu saying that I was feeding the cat with the offering intended for the Divine Mother. But Mathur Babu had insight into the state of my mind. He wrote back to the manager: Let him do whatever he likes. You must not say anything to him.”

A world that thinks and acts this way about all living things must be Heaven and Nirvana. 

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