'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 .

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