God as Mother

There are three principal ways of looking at God, religiously. God as one Supreme Self, of which we little selves are reflections, God as Father, God as Mother (of the whole creation). The first conception is not only impracticable for the common mass but is found, on minute observation, to be the achievement rather than the evolutionary remedy.

The world has seen what God as Father, with all the fears of His wrath and hell, has been able to do and has done. The world has, however, seldom thought of the motherhood of God. Perhaps because of man’s desire to maintain his superiority, motherhood has been neglected and the world has been unhappy. The head has run disproportionately in advance of the heart.

Mother’s love is none’s monopoly; none is disqualified; none has no claim to the lap of one’s mother. Mother worship has no particular form or ceremony and Mother has no particular name or form.

To the mother, the weakest child is the most cared for and dearest.

In the ocean of love alone, all differences sink.

Father is he whom mother introduces as father. With mother, the child is one, being under her protection, care, and nourishment even before its birth. None was born without a mother.

If we desire that the whole humanity may be religiously served by individuals, if we desire that spiritual evolution should proceed from love rather than the fear of society or hell, if we desire to be quickly forgiven for our daily repeated thousand faults, if we wish that our worthlessness may submerge itself in the divine love which God bears towards the creation, there is nothing on earth that can compare with the ideal of a mother’s love to her children, and God as Mother would be the first and most suitable ideal.

If we wish to establish God that considers the service of humanity as the first and foremost duty, that goal is most efficiently achieved by the mother’s conception; for it is the daily experience of common life that the mother is happy when the children are happy, and that daughter or son who is exerting herself or himself most for the well-being of her children-folk is her dearest child.

Love and mercy can be the only ideals as saviours when all equipment such as physical fitness, moral rectitude, right understanding, self-control, able, sincere and selfless guidance, and congenial social environments fail. There is no religion without religiosity, no religiosity without selflessness, and no greater teacher of selflessness, even for the hardest hearts, than love — “The Merciful Mother”.