Amma's women's day message

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Mata Amritanandamayi Math, Amritapuri, Kollam, Kerala, India.

- updated Tuesday, 07-Mar-2006 6:12 PM India

 

Awaken to Universal Motherhood

Amma's women's day message

 

At present, most women are asleep. The awakening of the dormant power

of women is one of the most urgent needs of the age. Only when women

imbibe the eternal wisdom of spirituality, along with modern

education, will the power within them awaken, and they will rise to

action.

 

The love of awakened motherhood is a love and compassion felt not only

towards one's own children, but towards all people, animals and

plants, rocks and rivers--a love extended to all of nature, all

beings. Indeed, to a woman in whom the state of true motherhood has

awakened, all creatures are her children. This love, this motherhood,

is Divine Love--and that is God.

 

In general, today's women are living in a world fashioned by and for

men. Women have no need of that world; they should establish their own

identities, and thus recreate society. But they should remember the

real meaning of freedom. It is not a licence to live and behave any

way one likes, regardless of the consequences for others; it doesn't

mean that wives and mothers should run away from their family

responsibilities. A woman's freedom and rising has to begin within

herself.

 

In the process of striving to regain their rightful position in

society, women should never lose their essential nature. It is

impossible to attain real freedom by imitating men. If women

themselves turn their backs on the feminine principle, this will

culminate in the utter failure of women and society. Then the problems

of the world will not be resolved, but only aggravated. If women

reject their feminine qualities and try to become like men, the

imbalance in the world will only become greater. This is not the need

of the age. The real need is for women to contribute all they can to

society by developing universal motherhood.

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Praying and wishing that we all may become expressions of Divine Love.

In Amma,

sarama - Iceland

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