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<font size="4">The Mother, Human and Divine</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>IN our human frailty we
regard the Divine Mother as mother only, forgetting that she is also divine. We
are apt to seize ex­clusively the last term of the great Name and ignore the
other term which is equally important. We demand from her the same reactions of
motherly love as we expect from a human mother. Our love for her is human,
human in the ignorant way – full of passion and craving, hunger for
appropriation, considering her as nothing else than food for our egoistic
desires.</p>

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is the mother indeed, but the Divine Mother. She wishes us to come to her in
the divine way and not in the human way. For it is in the divine way that we
rise to our highest and deepest stature and receive her fully and integrally, <span
class=GramE>enjoy</span> the plenitude of the delight in her Grace. A human way
ties us down to the littlenesses and smallnesses of the human feeling. The
human approach is more often than not that of a spoilt child. If there is one
drop of true love at the bottom of the heart, the amount of ignorance and
turbidity in which that is sunk is colossal. The dirt smears us and is cast
upon the object of our love too.</p>

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yet she is the mother in being the Divine. She is divine not in the sense that
she is afar and aloof, cold and indifferent like the transcendent Brahman.
Indeed, the Divine Mother is more motherly than the human mother can be. The
human mother is only a faint echo, a far-off shadow, at times a travesty of the
true Mother in the archetypal world.</p>

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Divine Mother even in being transcendent leans down to our human dimensions,
becomes one of us, is within us as our own self and with us as comrade and
guide. She takes us by the hand, and if we only allow it, teaches us how to
transcend 
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class=GramE>the</span> little humanity we are made of and grow into her own
nature and substance through the miracle of her love – if our love responds to
it adequately.</p>

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is only by remembering her twofold truth, the two arms of her love with which
she enfolds us and cherishes us that we can hope to be her true children.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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