Shri Mataji: "The consciousness is moving more towards the feminine expression of life."
--- In adishakti_sahaja_yoga@yahoogroups.com, "Trish"
>
> I have always felt a closness to the divine and refered to the
> divine as mother and father. I left the church many years ago due
> to my questions about the dogma that is presnt in all organized
> religion. And being told I just had to have faith THEY were right,
> and I should not question them. I KNOW that Shri Mataji Nirmala
> Devi is the incarnation of the Divine Mother and I feel blessed
> that I was lead to her and the truth. I am still reading through
> the Shri Adi Shakti web site. I have a 3 year old and a 12 year old
> so getting time to read can be a challenge.
>
> So I really want to study and share the message with others as
> everyone should be guided to the Mother's message. To the truth.
>
Sat Nov 17, 2007 11:40 am
Even today Hebrew males are taught to offer daily prayer, "Blessed
Art Thou O Lord our God, King of the Universe, who has not made me a
woman." Mohammed stated, "When Eve was created, Satan rejoiced." As
the Hebrew myth of the creation was later adopted into the sacred
literature of Christianity, along with all the other writings of the
Old Testament, the writers and religious leaders who followed Christ
assumed the same prose of contempt for the female, continuing to use
religion to lock women further into the role of passive and inferior
beings, and thus more easily controlled property of men."
Merlin Stone. When God was a Woman
A Harvard/HBJ Book, 1976, p. 224.
Women's faces are a source of corruption for men who are not related
to them."
Taleban Attorney-General's office, justifying why Afghan widows
should be painted over to prevent unveiled women from being seen
outside."
TIME (March 31, 1997
"The most formidable objection to the notion of female primacy points
to the women who have gained power in the male system, those who turn
out to be cruel, ruthless, or violent or who at least seem to espouse
the very destructive values that women, according to this proposal,
are supposed to transcend. (The woman governor of Washington
campaigns for nuclear plants, the prime minister of England wants to
move away from collective power, Phyllis Schlafly opposes abortion,
and the woman mayor of my own city vetoes rent controls.) Would the
female of the species, if given the chance, repeat the violence of
the patriarchy? I argue no, for it seems to me that the system itself
guarantees that anyone remaining within it will be affected by its
corruption. If we would see how women really manage power and
government, then let them demonstrate their abilities in a system
that they themselves create out of their own values. There has never
been an antipatriarchal woman in power since the beginning of male
domination, but only women who are puppets of men behind the scenes,
or women who are pawns of male business interests...
Consciousness cannot be halted by border patrols, and even
consumerism and advanced technology may turn out to be aids in our
learning about the lives of most of the world's women, in their
learning about the benefits and the strictures of the lives of
westernized women. If it is true that women universally have some
fundamental sensivity it is true that there is some connection
between the critical point that earth is now reaching in terms of
resources and women's awareness of that, then the tide of women's
rage may well rise up in response to those conditions. We may talk
here in our English words of a female future, but it may well be the
women of other nations who ultimately lead us in the most significant
step toward that future...
When we talk of a female future we are talking of something that once
existed and that has been deliberately and with full malice held down
and controlled by means so violent that no nonaggressive entity could
hope to resist. We are talking here about the power of women, felt by
every women at some time in her life, that tremendously rich and life-
giving, life-affirming force that functions for both men and women,
for the earth and her creatures as well as for the human species.
When we talk about a female future we are talking about a force that
has been denied, hidden, trivialized, ridiculed and suppressed.
That's where the violence lies in the minute-by-minute, day-by-day
suppression of the very force that gives us all life. A female future
means the challenge to and the obliteration of that violence.
But time is short. And the species may not be able to adapt fast
enough. For that reason it's imperative that the rising up of the
female future be not just the rising of women but an action on the
part of men as well a movement of men who not only cease to hold
down women but who earnestly lend their tremendous male power to the
hastening of the female future. We can count on it: it will be for us
all the most crucial, the most profound act that women and men have
ever undertaken together. It may well be the very last act that we
ever undertake together. For it becomes clearer with every moment:
EITHER THE FUTURE IS FEMALE OR THE FUTURE IS NOT."
Sally Miller Gearhart, The Future If There Is One Is Female
Reweaving The Web Of Life, New Society Publishers, p. 274-84.
In men this means the advent of tenderness, nurturing, and trust. Having a woman supply these quantities is not enough. Male attributes of force and violence have become grotesquely exaggerated in this world because men leave the feminine energies to women. Aggression and violence will become unnecessary as the shadow energies they disguise fear and impotence come to the surface to be recognized and healed. Being venerable will then be seen as a human quality, not a weakness that makes a man only half a man. Competition based on raging (and insecure) ego will diminish with healing and the ability to cooperate will increase.
The worth of women in men's eyes will rise as men stop defending themselves as the opposite of female. Spiritually, male is the complement of female. Once this is accepted the awakening of male spirituality can come about, since it takes an infusion of female energy before our bodies and minds can totally merge with the silent field of pure awareness. By welcoming Shakti a man can truly be Shiva.
For women the journey to wholeness is different, because it first entails raising female qualities to full dignity with male. A woman must build up her energies, so long forced into submission by society, whereas a man typically has to diminish the dominance of his. In both instances what is being achieved is balance. No one has ever claimed that the world has too much affection, tenderness, nurturing, intuition, and beauty all female spiritual qualities while it is all too obvious that aggression, force, struggle, and competition exaggerated male qualities have gone too far.
A woman needs to allow herself however much time it takes to use Shakti energy to accomplish what has been reserved for the male ego. Shakti energy runs in everyone, but women have been given their femaleness to accentuate the difference between Shakti, which is subtle and spiritual, and brute force. This difference can be summarized as follows:
Shakti understands. Instead of imposing, she communicates.
Shakti has patience. Instead of forcing an answer, she waits for spirit to produce one.
Shakti is tender. Instead of ignoring emotions, she uses emotion to tell when someone else is ready to listen and act.
Shakti is peaceful. No situation ever requires force.
Shakti is creative. She creates answers where none were seen before.
Shakti is wise. She considers the whole picture rather than a few parts; she takes the cosmic perspective, which always comes from love."
Deepak Chopra, The Path To Love - Renewing The Power Of Spirit In Your Life
Publisher: Three Rivers Press, Jan. 12, 1998
ISBN: 978-0-609-80135-2 (0-609-80135-X)
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Mother Earth, London, UK - August 21, 1983
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