Mai - Universal Divine Mother

‘MAI’ means Universal Divine Mother, that is, the Mother of all, propitiable through universal love, service, devotion, and self-surrender.

‘MAI’ is the ultimate infinite power that creates, sustains, and transforms universes. She is the source from whom everything with a name originates, in whom it exists, and to whom it ultimately returns.

‘MAI’ is a word coined by Mai herself when she commanded Founder Maiji to install her as “MAI” — the Universal Divine Mother.

Mother is essentially the ocean of infinite love and mercy. She is like a human mother, but endowed with omnipresence, omniscience, and omnipotence, elevated to infinity and divinity. MAI is to a Mai-ist what a human mother is to her child — nothing less than the God of all nations, all religions, and all humanity, but conceived as Mother.

Mai is worshipped through the practice of:

1. Motherhood of God

2. Universality

3. Love

4. Service

5. Devotion

6. Unconditional cheerful self-surrender

7. Spiritual co-equal status of man and woman

These principles are to be practiced in daily life.

The final and ultimate Mother is called ‘MAI’ because she has no other limiting name. As mentioned earlier, the word ‘MAI’ was given by Mai herself when she instructed Mai Swarupa to install her.