(Concluded from Part 1, above.)

Using energy – which is to say love – the Mother brings all things into being, preserves them for a while, and transforms them, in accordance with her universal laws and Divine Plan.

Only what she wills occurs; if it isn’t in her Plan, it won’t occur. And the victory of the deep state is not in her plan; the victory of love is. (1)

On another occasion she had this to say of herself:

Steve: You once said to me that Shakti [the Divine Energy], the Holy Spirit [spiritus – breath, a metaphor for energy], was only a small part of you. Can you explain what you meant by that? Is Shakti only limited to a certain dimension, universe or realm?

Divine Mother: No. No. When I have spoken about … Shakti, I have spoken about a part of me.

“As I have said, I am the bridge, I am the clasp between the Father and the universe and your world. And Shakti has been experienced — yes, inter-dimensionally for eons as you well know – but she is not the totality of my being.

“My being is bigger than you can fathom, dear one. So I do not simply mean that she is an aspect manifesting. But it is simply larger than any of you can imagine, particularly at this point.”  (2)

Give up? Or love a good mystery!?

***

Have we any examples of sages realizing the Mother?

Yes, here’s the realization of the Mother by Sri Ramakrishna’s Vedantic guru, Totapuri.

Totapuri had been denying the existence of the Divine Mother. He’d say:

“Whatever is within the domain of maya is unreal. Give it up. Destroy the prison-house of name and form and rush out of it with the strength of a lion. Dive deep in search of the Self and realize It through samadhi. You will find the world of name and form vanishing into void, and the puny ego dissolving in Brahman-Consciousness.” (3)

Well, Sri Ramakrishna was a devout lover of the Mother; such words were not pleasant to his ears.

Meanwhile, having accomplished in life all he wanted to and seeing no further reason to carry on, Totapuri determined to end his life by drowning in the Ganges.

But no matter how far into the Ganges he walked, the water did not come above his shins. What was happening?

“Suddenly, in one dazzling moment, [Totapuri] sees on all sides the presence of the Divine Mother. She is in everything; She is everything. She is in the water; She is on land. She is the body; She is the mind. She is pain; She is comfort. She is knowledge; She is ignorance. She is life; She is death. She is everything that one sees, hears, or imagines. She turns ‘yea’ into ‘nay’; and ‘nay’ into ‘yay.’ Without Her grace no embodied being can go beyond Her realm.

“Man has no free will. He is not even free to die. Yet, again, beyond the body and mind, She resides in her Transcendental, Absolute aspect. She is the Brahman [God the Father] that Totapuri has been worshipping all his life.” (4)

The Mother’s nature “is simply larger than any of you can imagine, particularly at this point.”

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Let me use this opportunity to put forth the Mother’s Plan at the very highest level.

On February 13, 1987, I saw how the movie ended.  I got the whole story.  I watched a vision of the entire journey of a single soul from God to God. I saw what the whole chain of being is about. (See footnote 5)

Drenched in bliss, I watched a small golden star, which I knew to be the Child of God (Christ, Atman, Self), emerge from a large golden Sun, which I knew to be the Heavenly Father, and streak out into space. I watched it enter a cloud that I knew to be the Divine Mother’s domain and go through lifetimes in matter before two enlightenment events had it streak back to the Father and merge with it.

I was left with the words ringing in my ears: Enlightenment is the purpose of life.

I spent twenty years unravelling that mostly-wordless puzzle.

I can therefore say that the only thing that matters in life is to find out who we are.

Time traveller, back from the future, says: It all works out in the final reel. And it gets better and better along the way. The way is finite, yet continuous. By the time you figure that one out, this discussion won’t matter.

The Mother furnishes us with a school of experience in a world of matter (mater, Mother), in which we discover the secret of our existence.

She pays me to tell you this (just kidding): Self-Discovery, Self-Knowledge, Self-Realization brings life’s fulfillment.

Thank you, Mother, source of all good things, destination of every heart and soul.

Footnotes

(1)  Divine Mother: Make no mistake, Sweet One, Love will win because that has been my Plan always. (Divine Mother in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, April 30, 2019.)

Divine Mother: [I am speaking about] those in … positions where control and abuse of power have been rampant. That will not be the platform [from] which integration of the various galaxies takes place. That is not the Plan.

I know very clearly, sweet one, as do you, if it is not [in] my Plan, then it will not occur. (The Divine Mother in “Enter the Delegations – Part 2/3,” May 5, 2019, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2019/05/05/enter-the-delegations-part-2-3/. Reading, April 30, 2019.)

(2)  “The Divine Mother: Come to Me as I Come to You,” ibid.

(3) Swami Nikhilananda, trans., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c1942, 28. [Hereafter GSR.]

(4) GSR, 31.

(5)  On the vision itself, see “The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment – Ch. 13 – Epilogue,” August 13, 2011, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2011/08/13/the-purpose-of-life-is-enlightenment-ch-13-epilogue/

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