Daily Prayers

Mother Divine, Maa,
how beautiful is life in its simplicity, pure as Truth itself, untouched by wants, unadulterated by desires, straight and simple and frank and spontaneous in its expression, direct and clear in expression. How beautiful is to witness the rising sun and as it goes down to illumine the heart of the night and to other fields. How beautiful to see the bursting of red and pink and green with a fragrance that reminds us of the first virgin moment of love. How beautiful to see the tree spread out its branches reaching out to the Light in so many ways. How beautiful to see a river flow, a cuckoo sing, a lion leap, the moon glide through the sky spontaneously as if it could not be otherwise. Yet the intervention of the mind has spoilt it all introducing mazes of complexity in everything. In trying to know the world we have forgotten to know first and foremost who we are. In trying to fix a date for everything we have forgotten eternity. In trying to fix the outer details and define precisely we have forgotten the infinity that holds each finite.

Yet was this a needed passage so that we can climb from the unconscious animal simplicity to the fully conscious divine simplicity. How beautiful, calm and effortless everything becomes when we get hold of this divine simplicity.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity, how beautiful is your Presence in our lives, the sign of Divine Presence in the heart of all things determining their emergence by the fiat of Her all-knowing Will.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine,

may all the gates open for the ascension of the human soul towards the higher states decreed since the earth began. May nothing stop or obstruct our forward march and climb towards greater and greater heights.

Higher, ever higher, may we not stop half way through the climb.

Vaster, ever vaster, may we ascend towards larger and larger vistas of Light.

O Divine Victor, may all be released from the chains and bonds of ignorance. May all taste the freedom of Thy infinity.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine, in Thy deep love for Your children, You have assumed this dark and fierce form, plunged into the sombre nightmare to break our souls free from the grip of the Night. Thou hast covered Your resplendent golden body and taken upon Yourself the burden of the Night. Grant, O Mother Divine that we may become worthy of this tremendous holocaust and all in us grows straight and sincere.

May all obscurity, all that resists and delays Thy Work be completely annihilated and expunged from us so that Thou may manifest amidst us in Thy full golden Glory and our eyes may be ready to see Thee and our hearts ready to worship Thee.

May all in us be consecrated to Thee and Thy Service.

Om Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine,
Let countless lamps be lit in every corner dispelling all ignorance. Let countless voices sing Thy Glory and chant Thy Name. Let countless hands salute Thee proclaiming Thy Victory within and without against all falsehood. May all our being say in unison, each cell joining as we say, Jai Maa Jai Maa Jai Jai Maa.

In deep gratitude and readiness, we surrender all at Thy Feet for Thy Will to be fulfilled and Thy reign of Divine Love to be established over every heart and the whole earth.

Maa, a single Ray of Thy Light is enough to dispel all darkness and gloom forever.

Victory to the Divine Mother.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine, You take care of all the countless creatures and their needs in ways we cannot even conceive, through seen and unseen hands. It is You who impels the heart and moves the hands that give, You who brings together the giver and the receiver, yet each thinks it is he who is helping. The one receiving the help too believes it is the man who helped not seeing the Power that moved his heart and the circumstances that brought things and people together by Thy agent of execution, Time. Man’s eyes are limited to the outer fields and appearances and knows not the Power that drives the engines of life from behind. Perhaps this illusion too is necessary at a certain stage so that we may put in the effort, else even when You would impel, man will refuse to do his bit which is part of the needed instrumentality in the totality of Thy cosmic play.

If only we could do what You bid us to do knowing fully that it is Your Knowledge that impels, Your Force that executes, Your Wisdom that determines the outcome and Your Love that carries us through it all, then life would be so much simpler, free of complications. But man’s mind prefers to keep Thee aside, shuts Thee in the cabin of his ideas or in the confines of a place as if he is the doer and he the enjoyer of the fruits. But by doing so he only limits Thy action, though only apparently so, since Thou art everywhere and in everything. What a relief it is to know that Thou art the sole doer while engaged in every action, to know that all is Thine while outwardly engaged in giving and getting.

May all be granted this release that comes by knowing that it is Thou alone who art playing in different forms, that there is nothing else but Thee.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine,
the gap between where humanity stands today, even at its very best, highest and noblest, and where You have willed to take us seems like an impossibility, if we look at it from our side. Even great Yogis and Tapaswis would not be able to achieve or even conceive of it in their highest flights that comes to an abrupt close with samadhi, that trance of annulment waiting to be absorbed back into the Silence. But Your Will and Divine Command for us is not losing oneself in the Divine but to manifest Him in each and every field and detail of life. It is the work of a New Creation here, in every activity and mode of being, a work impossible but for Thy Grace. It is relatively easy to cut oneself from the crowded tramp of life and live in Thy ecstatic contemplation. But to live in this great divided world where each thing seems its lonely separate self while seeing oneness everywhere is a far more difficult thing.

Yet when we look at Thy infinite Grace then this seems not only possible but certain. For the whole creation hints at this, a oneness behind and differentiation outside. Oh, to be a channel fully open to Thee so that Thy Divine Forces may pour upon earth, unhindered and unobstructed by our egoism, fears, doubts and desires. Oh, to be very simply what Thou wouldst want us to be without preferences of being this or that. To choose what You would choose for us, to execute what Thou wouldst Will is peace and felicity, the supreme consummation, the Divine way to live.

To will what Thou Willest is to be Divine.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine,
may we wake up to Thy all-transfiguring Love and Thy wonderful Grace whose alchemist power knows no limits and can change even the dullest, most obscure material into a lamp of Thy Light. It is only natural that this be so because it is this wonderful Grace that has engaged in this labour of love pulling creation out of its fallen Inconscient state. It knows all the steps, It has marshalled all the forces that have gone into creation, It has the detailed knowledge of the complex and intricate fabric of creation. What we call nature is simply a small frontal play brought out by Thee to prepare us for Thy vaster play. And what we know as Supernature, whose miraculous interventions baffles our intelligence is simply one aspect of Thy working, incomprehensible and hence abnormal to our limited mind but perfectly normal to Thee. It is our limited understanding that refuses to believe that everything is possible if You so Will. Your Grace can work out the seemingly impossible, that which our highest imagination and conception cannot know. Hence we call it a random play or a Chance event. Or else we give it the ubiquitous name of miracle. Or limit the free action of an infinite Wisdom by hedging it with systems and philosophies and rules of life and theories that explain action and consequence. Yet in our haste to explain we miss the one most important single factor, Thy incalculable immeasurable Grace that overtops and overrides everything. It uses rules as well as transcends them.

Yet there is a method in this seemingly random game and Chance and Fate are simply words that display our ignorance of the deeper working. Even what we call as accidents of Time or label it as whims and fancies of an arbitrary Creator carries within it the stamp of a far-seeing Wisdom that knows Its steps and uses all means, even the most seemingly contradictory to arrive at Its prefigured Goal. What is marvelous is that this is as much true for an individual as for nations and the world. Once we begin to glimpse this infinity, this wonderful Grace, this marvelous Love then our hearts are at complete rest and peace and our hope has no limits.

May all be blessed with this vision and this Hope.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa

Mother Divine,
everyday You open so many windows to reach out to us and one who is waiting and attentive can contact Thee in and through even the most insignificant things. In fact the whole universe speaks to us of Thee if we care to see. But we are closed in our heart and bound by our thoughts and hence miss the golden moment. But from to time Thy sweet voice is heard in the depths of the heart, a Voice, full of sweetness and strength, carrying with it the conviction and the certitude of Truth’s Victory against all that opposes it. It rises in the depths of the soul as a song of Love that never dies, as a hymn of Joy that never tires, of the triumph of Light that dwells in all things covered with dense darkness. And once we attune ourselves to this beautiful Voice so full of Sweetness and Love, then we begin to hear it everywhere and in everything. With it comes supreme hope and the deliverance from all anxieties and fears.

Maa, Thou art the hope of the world, Thou art the goal of our journey,. Thou art the path that takes us straight to the highest good our souls can seek. Thou art the strength that helps us walk upon the Path, the Light that leads, the Love that ensures the Victory.

All is Thy Play with Thyself as the Play and the players.

Om Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa.

Mother Divine,
from time to time a breath of Thy Grace passes upon the human, struggling here upon earth, as if to wipe off all its sweat and tears. This wonderful Grace then takes man and earth in Her arms of infinite Mercy and Love. Your kiss of Love wakes us out of the nightmare and we perceive another world float before our eyes, a world of Truth, a world of ageless Beauty and endless charm, a world ringing sweet symphonies of Thy Love. This other world is so close to us, indeed it is our truest Truth and we ourselves dwell there as citizens. Yet we feel it far just as a person who is asleep wanders far even though the world where he truly lives is right there, always there, beside us. All that is needed is to open our eyes and see.

When our sleep is too dense as when we are sunk in tamas, we feel not the kiss. Then perhaps a shake-up is needed for our souls to wake to the truth of things. When we are enjoying the dream chasing illusory joys and running away from ghostlike shadows, then too we do not feel the kiss. We are too busy running here and there to take note. But when we try, in whatever limited way, to lead a truer and more beautiful life, to progress beyond our present limitations, when our ignorance becomes a seeking ignorance which wants to know the meaning and purpose of it all, then we feel the gentle touch, the kiss that wipes away all tears, and hear the whisper that enchants our hearts forever. Once we have felt this even for a moment our hearts can never rest and sleep again until we have found our Divine Beloved and his eternal embrace.

Maa, may all wake up to this blessedness. May all have the joy of feeling Thy embrace that rends the knot of suffering and pain forever.

Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa Maa