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Worshiping God as Mother

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Since we recently celebrated Navratri, the idea of worshiping God in the form of Mother has increasingly been on my mind. A close family friend recently sent me an email about a service she had attended in the New York Ramakrishna Vedanta Center, where the topic of the lecture was “Worship of God as Mother.” [...]

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A mother’s heart…

Sunday, May 9, 2010

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 [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day!

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Today’s post is dedicated to mothers — whether they are our biological mothers or  mother-figures, it seems to be that we always consider the mother as an epitome of compassion and love. This generalization is the basis behind the insult: “you have a face only a mother could love”; and the same sentiment (not of [...]

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