God as Divine Mother () von Paramhansa Yogananda

Contents

Introduction 3

Part One: Yogananda’s Teachings on Divine Mother

1 Who Is Divine Mother?

Human Motherhood vs the Divine Mother 9

The Mother-Instinct  10

God in Nature  11

Form vs Formless 11

2 Developing the Heart’s Natural Love

God Is Love 19

Reason and Feeling 20

Intuition 21

Feeling vs Emotion 22

3 Duality

Duality as Expressed in Man and Woman 25

Duality as Expressed in the Universe 27

Cosmic Vibration

God Is Always More 29

4 The Time for Knowing God Has Come

Balancing Masculine and Feminine Energies 37

The Age of Energy 40

What We Need Is Love

The Concept of Divine Mother 41

5 Attitudes That Draw Her Grace

You Are What You Think 45

Letting Go of Self-Definitions 46

Developing Right Attitudes

Responding with Love 47

6 How to Tune In to Divine Mother

The Mother Is Closer Than the Father 53

The Nearest and Dearest 54

Divine Mother Is on Your Side

Accept Where You Are 55

7 Raising Your Consciousness to Her Level

Expanding the Sense of Self 63

Choosing Happiness

Developing a Personal Relationship with God 64

Opening to Divine Grace 65

8 The Mother of Us All

Mother of East and West 69

AUM, TAT, SAT and the Holy Trinity

Communing with Divine Mother as AUM 70

Mary, the Mother of Jesus 71

Kali 73

Yogananda’s Vision of Kali 75

Ram Proshad’s Vision of Kali 77

Yogananda’s Mother 78

Ananda Moyi Ma (Joy-Permeated Mother) 80

Yogananda  84

Part Two: Inspiration of Divine Mother

9 Poems and Prayers to Divine Mother

Techniques for Healing at a Distance 91

Sinking in a Dream 93

Thou Mother of Flames, Show Thy Face, Too Long Hidden Behind the Veil of Thy Cosmic Motion Picture 94

The Lost Two Black Eyes 97

My Devotion 100

I Was Made for Thee 101

At Thy Feet of Immortality 102

Prayer Demands

I Will Be the Naughty Baby of the Divine Mother 103

Make Me Clean Again, Divine Mother

I Loved All Things That I Might Learn to Crave Only Thee

The Bee of My Mind Loves to Drink from Thy Blue Lotus Feet 104

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