– Sri. R. Ranganathan ( 1961)
The avatar best suited to the present time became a fait accompli in the advent of the Mother. When the mind and the body of the human fraternity are not as strong in kaliyuga as they were in previous yugas and as they cannot successfully endure the ordeal of severe austerities and intense penance, the divine power in its infinite mercy has manifested itself in the form of the Mother to protect dharma, to inculcate the sense of duty, to instill the power of truth, to spread the glory of ahimsa and viswa prema in order to make easy the passage to eternal bliss, through grahasthasrama. No austere penance, no painful ordeals are required of us by the Mother. She treats the entire humanity as children and has a message for every one. The message is universal and comprehensive and is based on eternal principles. The message is suited to any avocation, religion or school of thought. It is beneficial and is acceptable in all climes and in all civilization. A very brief text of her precepts is given below:
1. Devotion to duty (dharma) and its discharge as an offering to God without seeking for a reward.
2. Pathivrathya Absolute faith in the guru and complete surrender (saranagathi).
3. Realisation of the illusoriness of the ego and divesting oneself of it.
4. Keeping away from one’s mind and action from all that is opposed to truth. Meditation or dhyana, for control of mind.
The realization, the real realization of the atman which the Mother profoundly and repeatedly expounds to the world, is possible only to those, who tread the path of truth, who follows the precepts of duty, who through self-discipline give up pride, whose faith in her is permanent and whose surrender is absolute and whose meditations are pure and steadfast.
To such of us as have been blessed at least with the glimpse of the divine an occasional lifting of the curtain of maya, revealing the truth is possible; but the cloud of maya again might envelope the reality and only ceaseless efforts will lead us on to the ultimate goal.
Let us concentrate on the parabrahman that is Mother. Let her Samadhi and divine bhavas be ever present in us, and let us seek saranagathi at her lotus feet who will lead us on, in the realization of the atman which all along abides in us and thus let us obtain the atma- santhi in this life and the final merger with the paramathman thereafter.
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