Saturday, February 25, 2012

'Mamtamai Shri Radhe Maa' sees everything.





Mamtamai Shree Radhe Maa answers questions hidden in our hearts
By Tina (Gunjan) Agarwal .

 

I do not promise you that it will not rain when you step out. I do promise to be your umbrella. Mamtamai Shree Radhe Maa



I had my first darshan of Mamtamai Shri Radhe Maa in 2003. I was a student of Std XII. My brother Sanjeev, the first in our family to enter Maa’s service, had told me about her divine powers but all that was way beyond my understanding at that point. I simply felt drawn to Maa’s swarup and the depth in her all-seeing eyes. I later discovered
that her outer form is a reflection of her stunning inner beauty.

After the chowki concluded, Devi Maa left for the house of a bhakta where she was staying. After the darshan, I prayed to Maa for another darshan. It was to be held in March. My only fear was that Devi Maa’s arrival would coincide with my exams and I would find it difficult to offer seva to her.  She answered my prayers. My exams dates were revised and she came to our house the very day my exams got over. I used to offer charan seva (pressing feet etc) to Maa but it was my elder sister who cooked for her. Eager to offer service to Maa, I began cooking. I discovered that the days I was distracted or not paying enough attention to the cooking, she would eat very little.
There were days when she would not eat at all. She does not accept acts of devotion that are performed mechanically. She would say that she enjoyed food cooked with devotion. I wondered at how she always knew what my state of mind had been like when I cooked for her. “I will eat what you will offer me with love and devotion,” Maa said. We maintain an akhand jyot in the Shri Radhe Maa Bhavan. I have had countless experiences where a question asked to the jyot has been answered by Maa when I meet her in person. There were days when I used to hum some lines of a bhajan and as I presented myself before Maa,
she would start humming the very same lines. Three years after I graduated from college, my parents began looking for a suitable match for me. I prayed that I would not be married too far from Maa’s Bhavan in Borivli. Offers for marriage began pouring in from Bangalore, Delhi and other cities. Maa smiled at me and said, “I am not letting you move beyond Malad after your marriage.” There was no proposal to be considered from Malad at that point. But what Maa says always comes to pass. I celebrated my first wedding anniversary on February 19 this year (2012), and it is in Malad that I was finally married.

As spoken to Satish Purohit .

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Param Shradhey Shri Radhe Maa - Drishti, the divine gaze





Mamtamai Shri Radhe Maa’s drishti or glance has changed the lives of thousands of devotees  

by Sanjeev Gupta

Look into my eyes and hear what I'm not saying, for my eyes speak louder than my voice ever will
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It was much later that I recognised that gaze. It was childlike but deep and penetrating. I had seen it earlier in a worshipper of the Goddess who identifies herself completely with Maa Para Shakti. For worshippers of the Goddess, Maa’s eyes have a special significance. One, they are all-seeing or antaryami – they penetrate the heart of devotees and know all there is to be known. Two, they look out into the world in different bhavas or attitudes. In their ugra or fierce form, they blaze with divine anger at whatever is hurting or harming Her devotees. In their benevolent form, Her compassionate glance grants the wishes of those who surrender to Her. The Devi has been described as Meenakshi (One with eyes shaped like a fish) and Kamakshi (One with eyes that attract the soul of the seeker to liberation).   


The All-Seeing Eye of Maat was the symbol of the Egyptian Goddess Maat, the Goddess of law, morality, and justice. The Egyptians believed that it was Maat who held the universe together. It was Her quality of order which maintained the world. According to Barbara Walker, an expert on ancient Egyptian religion, “The Mother-syllable Maa meant 'to see'; in hieroglyphics (Egyptian script), and it was written in the form of an eye.”


The eye, therefore, and its function seeing or drishti, has been associated with the Mother Goddess since antiquity.

The first time I had Shri Radhe Maa’s darshan, it was over in a few seconds because I was one in hundreds who had lined up to pay their respects. Every act of Shri Radhe Maa is imbued with deep significance. For instance, she unties a thread from her wrist and hands it to a devotee to signify that she has accepted the devotee in her service. There was also the glance or drishti that several devotees credit with changing their fortunes. Her eyes were bright and there was a strange depth to them. The expression was playful, innocent and mischievous at the same time.

For those accustomed to discourses from spiritual figures, Shri Radhe Maa, who rarely speaks, may come across as unusual. That is quite correct because She is not just unusual, She is extraordinary. When devotees present themselves for Her darshan, Her drishti takes on a special intensity. It turns even more powerful during days that are special to the Goddess and Lord Shiva.

The annual jagran that is being held on her birthday on March 3 to honour the Divine Feminine is one such event. The jagran, which is in its ninth year, is expected to attract devotees of Shri Radhe Maa across the world. Be there to experience Ma’s transforming drishti which grants peace, abundance and happiness to her devotees.   

   


As spoken to Satish Purohit

Call on 9820969020 for free passes to the Ma Jagadamba Jagran at the Goregaon Film City ground in Mumbai on March 3

Monday, February 20, 2012

Param Shradhey Shri Radhe Maa Gyan





















भजन और कीर्तन में आपकी सच्ची श्रद्धा भावना होनी चाहिए ,सारी चिंताएं छोड़ कर यदि आप किसी भजन संध्या,माता की चौकी-जागरण या सत्संग में जाएँ तो वहां आपने सच्चे मन से प्रभु की भक्ति करनी है और उनका गुणगान करना है ,उदाहरण के लिए जैसे तुलसीदस जी कहते हैं : 
                                       
 रामहि केवल प्रेम पियारा | जानि लेऊ जो जाननिहारा || 

                अर्थात प्रभु को केवल प्रेम ही प्यारा है,यह रहस्य की बात है की प्रभु को प्रेम के सामान न सीता जी प्यारी हैं,न लक्ष्मण जी और न भारत जी क्यूंकि जब भी कोई प्रभु को प्रेम से आर्त पुकार कर बुलाता है तो वे सबकुछ त्याग कर वहां पहुँच जाते हैं |  हमारे वेदों, पुराणों,शास्त्रों और उपनिषदों में भी वर्णन है की प्रभु भक्त की भक्ति के अधीन होते हैं, यदि भक्त की भक्ति में शक्ति हो तो,अपने भक्त से मिलने के लिए और उसकी रक्षा के लिए  वे भी आतुर रहते हैं,जैसे प्रभु श्री राम शबरी से कहते हैं :

   कह रघुपति सुनु भामिनी बाता |  मानऊँ एक भगति कर नाता ||   

प्रभु कहते हैं की मैं सबसे भक्ति का ही नाता रखता हूँ,जो भी सच्चे ह्रदय से मुझे ययद करता है  मैं सर्वस्व त्याग कर उसकी रक्षा को पहुँच जाता हूँ,.इसलिए प्रेमियों,सदा प्रेम से,श्रद्धा से ही भगवान् का भजन और ध्यान करना चाहिए |  इसलिए ही भजन-कीर्तन और जागरणों को महत्त्व दिया गया है जहाँ भगवत भक्ति के वातावरण में हम सच्चे भाव प्रभु के प्रति उनके पावन चरणों में रख पायें और अपना व् अपने परिवार का कल्याण व् उद्धार कर सकें | 


भगवत भक्ति की इस सुन्दर ,फलदायी और कल्याणकारी प्रथा को आगे बढाते हुए ममतामयी श्री राधे माँ जी के पावन सानिध्य में उनके ही जन्मोत्सव वाले दिन विश्वकल्याण और विश्व शांति के  लिए मुंबई में एक विराट माँ जगदम्बे जागरण का आयोजन किया जाता है , एक विशाल मंच पर माँ शेरावाली सहित अन्य कई भगवानो की ऊंची ,सजग और मनमोहक मूर्तियों का श्रिंगार किया जाता है ,जहाँ सारी रात भारत वर्ष के सुप्रसिद्ध कलाकार अपनी सुमधुर वाणी से महामाई का सुन्दर गुणगान कर माँ के चरणों में ध्यान लगाते हैं और भक्तिमय वातावरण से आये श्रद्धालुओं को भक्तिरस से सरभोर कर देते हैं | इस जागरण का विशेष आकर्षण होता है करुणामयी श्री राधे माँ के दिव्य-दुर्लभ और खुल्ले दर्शन ,जहाँ जागरण के मध्य में घंटों से प्रतीक्षा कर रहे अपने भक्तों की दर्शन की प्यास भुजाते हुए बड़े हर्शौल्ल्हास के साथ कृपालु श्री राधे माँ जी का भव्य स्वागत किया जाता है ,दरबार तक पहुँच कर सर्वप्रथम देवी माँ जी पवित्र ज्योत के और मूर्तियों के दर्शन कर अपने आसन पर विराजमान हो जाती हैं और भक्तों को अपनी कृपादृष्टि का अमृतपान कराती हैं ,जो भी श्रद्धालु सच्चे मन से करुणामयी श्री राधे माँ जी के दर्शन करता है उसकी मनवांछित इच्छा पूरी होती है ,देश विदेश जैसे,अमेरिका ,लन्दन ,हांगकांग ,दुबई, ऑस्ट्रेलिया ,नुजीलैंड आदि देशों से  से भक्त इस दिन माँ की सेवा और दर्शन प्राप्त करने मुंबई पधारते हैं  | हज़ारों लाखों की मात्र में भक्त देवी माँ जी के दिव्य-दुर्लभ दर्शन कर अक्षय पुन्य के भागी बनते हैं |  

         

भक्तों के लिए लंगर की व्यवस्था भी की जाती है ,सारी व्यवस्था सुचारू ढंग से चले इसलिए जागरण के करीब एक महीना पहले से ही निशुल्क पासेस का वितरण शुरू कर दिया जाता है ,जो की राधे माँ भवन , बोरीवली वेस्ट से ग्रहण किये जा सकते हैं,अधिक जानकारी के लिए आप टल्ली बाबा ( पंजाबी में मंदिर की घंटी को टल्ली कहा जाता है) जी से +919820969020 पर संपर्क कर सकते हैं |   

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