The Divine Mother’s Gentle Encouragement to Go Deeper

I’d like to comment, if you’d permit me, on the very informative and encouraging exchange I had with the Divine Mother on Thursday’s AHWAA. I asked her:

“Mother, in sacred partnership, is it not the case that, for the male, his partner is the embodiment of the Divine Mother, and, for the female, her partner is the embodiment of the Holy Father?”

I had in mind the example of Sri Ramakrishna and his wife, Sarada Devi, whom he worshipped in a formal puja or ceremony as the embodiment of the Divine Mother. At the end of the puja, both of them merged in samadhi. Here is Swami Nikhilananda’s description of that event:

“A few days after Sarada Devi’s arrival, Sri Ramakrishna arranged, on an auspicious day, a special worship of Kali, the Divine Mother. Instead of an image of the Deity, he placed on the seat the living image, Sarada Devi herself. The worshipper and the worshipped went into deep samadhi and in the transcendental plane their souls were united.” (1)

Sri Ramakrishna’s actions provide a context in which to imbue our relationships with sacredness. But the Mother demurred and used the occasion to show me my dualistic view of the matter, the future direction of our path towards Ascension, the nature of androgyny, etc. She said:

“Not entirely, my friend. The short answer would be for me to agree and to say, well done.” (2)

And certainly this is the way the Divine Mother would probably have replied if she felt that I and listeners were unsophisticated. But she did not reply that way. Instead she chose to take us deeper, which I think says a lot about how she views our unfoldment.

“But that is not what you are asking. You are asking — and I mean all of you are asking — for a depth of understanding that you have not fully had before.

She recognizes here that the knowledge base and aspirations after depth have grown in all of us in this time of rapid evolution.

“Now, you have come leagues, but of course there is further yet to go.

“There is no true separation between the Father and me.”

There is further to go to Ascension and then there is infinitely further to go after that.

She declares in this passage her Oneness with the Father, something that an aspirant might only have heard in previous ages during deep spiritual experiences. Today we hear deep teachings from the Mother on radio shows! How much more fortunate could we be?

“There is delineation and definition, just as there is in your own roles and the choices that you have made time after time.”

We are essentially spiritual beings, undelineated and undifferentiated, but, by choice and role, we take upon ourselves illusory delineations and differentiations, just as the formless Father did in manifesting as the Mother of all forms in the phenomenal world.

“When you come into sacred union, you are both and you are all with what you would think of as primary energies. Too often — and this is part of a bleed-through from the black and white of the old third — you think either/or.

“And that has been useful for advancement in understanding, wisdom, knowledge and joy. So it is not a criticism, for I do not criticize.”

In the “old third,” we think we’re one thing or another, but we don’t remember that we’re the One incarnate in which there is no “either/or” but only All. Taking on delineation and differentiation has been useful in our learning but it’s not the final truth.

“When you are in sacred union — and it does not matter whether it is male-female, male-male, female-female, because what we are talking is energetics — there is the embodiment.”

In this statement, the Mother validates homosexual as well as heterosexual couples. Third-dimensional terrestrials may discriminate against gay couples, but the Divine Mother and Creator of the universe does not.

I think that everything the Divine Mother says is said for a reason and so you can bet your boots that she has made this statement to encourage us to grow up spiritually and get off this kind of discrimination. And if we’re really wise, I think we’d recognize that the Divine Mother of the universe does not discriminate at all and extend what she says here to all areas of our life – religious, gender, race, political, economic.

“For the purposes of [my] explanation, the masculine will tend to embody my energies, and vice versa, the feminine will merge and embody the Father.

“But because there is no separation, it is not as pure or as delineated as one might think.

“There is the blend. And in that blend there is the time when the one that is holding the Divine Masculine will in fact hold the Divine Feminine, because that is what is required in the true union. And again, vice versa.”

In the outworking of our understanding, one gender may embody the energies of the other “side” of the Divine Masculine and Feminine – or vice versa. But in reality there is no separation between Father and Mother or within us or between us.

It isn’t as cut-and-dried as we tend to think. True union sees the rise of the ability to hold and blend the Two.

“So there is this ebb and flow, the infinity, and you are meeting in the middle, in the still-point of creation, of the place of insemination, inspiration, implosion, explosion. And I have not even begun to speak of sexuality!”

In the midst of the Mother’s movement, with its constant ebb and flow, is the Father’s stillpoint. By using the word “insemination,” the Mother perhaps prepares us for future talks, in which she may discuss sexuality, which “I have not even begun to speak of” yet. I wonder just how ready we are for many discussions that may come down the road?

“So, is it correct, what you say? Yes. But broaden it, my friends, my family.”

Having encouraged us to go deeper, she then acknowledges that what was said was accurate on a lower-dimensional level. But she wants us to go deeper than that.

“Think of it this way. Most of you have had experiences of mothers. And there have been certainly a wide range and variety.

“And there are some, when the saying would be that truly the mother is wearing the pants in the family. And that was a subtle recognition that, in fact, the feminine was carrying the masculine energy. But at the same time, you would see that feminine in all her feminine glory as well.”

Well, undoubtedly, if I may joke for a moment, the Divine Mother wears the pants in the Divine Family. The Father does not have legs! Only the Mother has form!

“So it is the blend, because to be in sacred union, one of the keys, the elements, is this allowance.

“There have been references to the puzzle pieces fitting together, but think of those puzzle pieces as being fluid, as being water molecules that move and dance and transmute and transform, according to desire and need in its truest sense and what you are creating in that moment.”

Flow is the paradigm of the Fifth Dimension, not temporal or spatial sequence, linearity, or black-and-white “either/or.”

If we want to fit the pieces of the great puzzle together, we have to get away from sequential thinking and allow for flow.

“So, when you are truly in union, there is this allowance for adaptation. So, in some ways you become both male and female, and that is the celebration. That is part of the joy. Because it is in this recognition of both elements and the desire for both elements to be present.”

If we want to achieve the androgyny that is the precursor of unitive consciousness, then we need to allow each of us – male and female – to show the qualities normally associated with each “gender.” To do so is to free us up from linear thinking and allow the flow that leads to joy.

What is wonderful about this exchange?

It shows that she does not simply reply pro forma. It shows that she feels we’re well enough along the path that she can disagree with us and impart deeper teachings.

For those who think that it isn’t the Divine Mother speaking, but Linda speaking from her self, the kind of non-dualist teaching that she offers here, in the face of my dualistic metaphors, should be evidence of a Higher Power speaking.

My question was dualistic in nature. I am here; my partner is there. The masculine and feminine are fixed characteristics. It showed I was not thinking in terms of Oneness but still remaining with fixed distinctions of “either/or.”

It also shows that she trusts our maturity enough to disagree with us in public knowing that we will endure it without excusing and justifying ourselves and respond to her gentle encouragement to go deeper.

It also betrayed my ignorance of the Plan and Ascension. The Plan isn’t to restrict us to our gender roles. The Plan is for all of us to achieve androgyny and then, once united with ourselves, to love all and uncover our native unitive consciousness.

The Divine Mother replied that she could have said, “Yes, well done, my son.” But she wasn’t going to do that. Instead she pointed out that Ascension was the end of duality.

Given that it was, we’re all intended to experience our androgyny and not to concern ourselves any longer with dualistic splits and fixed gender attributions.

In effect, Sri Ramakrishna was giving an example to a generation that was fated to remain in duality and so he used a dualistic example. But the Divine Mother is speaking to a generation that is destined to leave duality and I think she wants us now to think in non-dualistic or unitive ways to prepare ourselves for what’s ahead.