Since today is Mother’s Day, I thought I’d share a poem I grew up reciting in Vivekananda Vidyapith, the Hindu weekend school for character-building education I attended when I was younger. It was written by Swami Vivekananda in a letter to one of his disciples in the West for her 23rd birthday.
The mother’s heart, the hero’s will,
The softest flower’s sweetest feel;
The charm and force that ever sway
The altar fire’s flaming play;
The strength that leads, in love obeys;
Far reaching dreams, and patient ways,
Eternal faith in Self, in all
The sight Divine in great in small;
All these, and more than I could see
Today may “Mother” grant to thee.
-Swami Vivekananda
The poem seems like the perfect expression of the Hindu view of the mother — a person who only wishes for the best for her children. It certainly encapsulates everything I’d hope to feel/be/achieve in my own life as well.
Happy Mother’s Day!
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