Mother & Child Relationship

In Mai-ism, there are no incomprehensible religious technicalities. You are not required to be knowing everything, or even anything. You are carried through every situation provided you become Mother’s child. Even a householder can be the highest religious person. Even the worst sinner and criminal has a right to look up to Mai for reform and redemption. “To the Mother, the weakest child is the most cared for and dearest.”

You have to imagine that you are a small child in relation to Mai, a child who can play with Mai, coax Mai, demand things from Mai, just as an ordinary child does with its mother. This child-likeness is important. Maiji says, “Practise feeling that you are a child, a child whom Mother could not but accept, however wicked. Be Mother’s child and Her lap shall be thrilling and throbbing to have you on it.”

A child has its greatest trust in the protection and forgiveness of the Mother. Mother’s love does not look for any return and is the last celestial thing on earth. The best way of attracting Mother’s love, as seen in daily life, is through service to, and love for, Her child. There is no weighing. A mother’s eyes refuse to see evil and sin in her child.

Our beloved Maiji gives a beautiful allegory of a parrot child confined in a cage. It has no idea or feeling of greater or lesser joy, or of joy or sorrow, based on whether the cage is of iron, brass, silver, or gold. It takes no notice of whether the cage is clean or not. It makes no distinction between fresh or stale food, or whether it is pleasant or corroded. It speaks nothing, answers nothing, learns nothing, and repeats nothing that is taught. It has only one idea that has permeated every atom of its heart, mind, and body. It speaks rarely, only waiting to send a message to its mother through anyone who may come and is capable of carrying that message and knowing its mother. And that message is:

“Mother, I make no difference of the cage, its cleanliness, or the food. I do not even mind confinement. Thou, the Ever Free, be just sitting on the opposite tree, so that with the vision of Thee, I may lose the very consciousness of myself, being absorbed in ecstasy and unified with Thee.”

None worthy of the name is unaware of either God or the meaning of a mother-and-child relationship. Mai-ism says, “Establish that relationship of a mother and child between yourself and your God, by whatever name you call your God.”

Mother swallows the faults and hides the crimes and sins of her children within herself. Who else will praise a deformed or deficient child except its own mother? It is only a mother who asks her child, “What ails thee, my child?”

Mai-ism says that universal evils can be set right through the grace of the Universal Mother alone. None knows the ailment of the child as the Mother does, even without a single word being spoken.