The Universal Mother
Kusuma Kumari Devi
Krishna created Jivas after
His own image to reflect His own beauty, and Jivas
Always reflect it faithfully in their
Aprakrita bodies.When the consciousness or the
Heart of the Jiva becomes pure he sees at once
Sri Krishna reflected in it.
He
is so loving, beautiful, witty, so accomplished, so clever, so complete in all
the
Qualifications
which human intellect has been able to conceive.
Sri Radha is the manifestation of Hladini
Sakti of the Lord. It is for Her and Her only
That Prakrita and Aprakrita spheres exist. Only She can make Sri Krishna manifest
Or known – without Her He is unknowable.
Sri Krishna is the essence of life
(Chit) and Sri Radha the Vitality in it.
When the Lord
manifests Himself in the kingdom of Prakriti, Prakriti Devi and Sri Nityananda
are always with Him. Nityananda is in constant joy keeping His mind on Krishna’s
Lotosfeet. That joy is faultless, has no decrease or increase, in it weeping is
also happiness. He is the one and only purifier of Jivas from their state of
sin. Radha (Kusum Kumari Devi) is the container of bliss, containing Krishna
(Lord Haranath) in every part of Her in and out, and Krishna is the contained
bliss. She gives Him taste of His own bliss. All beings which people the
Aprakrita worlds are but Kusuma Kumari Devi’s manifestations, they live and move in Her. She
is the one tree of Prema and the various Jivas but the stem, twigs, leaves and
flowers on it. The beings have no independent realization of the Lord and cannot enjoy Him in any way except through
Her. If the universal Mother so wills, the Lord will reveal Himself to us and
we begin to weep and dance in a fit of mad love in ecstasy. In the Prakrita
worlds the Jivas exist in and through Lord Nityananda. The work of Kusuma
Kumari Devi and Nityananda is to keep the Lord always engaged in pleasure and
pastime. Lord Haranath said at the Monghyr Janmotsav “You can never know why I
have come to this world. Who says that I am present in this world only and not
in other worlds, doing some work there at the same time? At another time He
revealed: “This body has completely become the Lord’s body in which He now
resides. There is no difference between Him and the person whom you know as Haranath.
On account of Ravana Rama’s Avatar was necessary, on account of Kamsa Krishna’s
Avatar and on account of you all I had to come into this world. 450 years ago I
came as Gouranga, now you see me as Haranath. Don’t call me Haranath, say
Kusuma Haranath. I am nothing without Her. No one is able to know or reach the
Lord ignoring Her. She is the primary book of reference. Without Mother’s grace
it is hard to win the Lord. Through Her we must approach the Father.To me all
are equally near and dear. Whoever offers me love sees me standing at his door.
Love is the greatest force, the true object of pursuit in human life .”
In His manifestation as Gouranga He taught
renunciation of the world and devotion to Krishna in a form suitable only to
Vairagis or those who had given up all attachment to the forms of worldly life.
In the manifestation as Kusuma Haranath He taught how man, even though
remaining in the world, might attain
entry to the blissful realm of Vrindavan. (“before the grand Braja Lila Vedanta
all other topics are a mere child’s amusement” were Lord Haranath’s comments
about Braja Lila). The key to it lay in chanting of the Lord’s Name – any Name
that melts the heart.
The world is
unreal as world but real as solidified
love of God. It cannot be said to exist apart from the Self (Atman) even as
Haranath cannot be said to exist apart from Kusuma Kumari Devi. Of all objects
Lord Haranath is the form while Kusuma Kumari Devi is the expression. The
mingling and mixing of the two have decked the universe in all its beauty.
Kusuma Kumari is the Ichashakti and Hladini Shakti (embodiment of will and
illimitable Prema) of Lord Haranath. With this vast Prakriti (passive principle)
the Lord is eternally at grand play. This, His play has no beginning nor end –
it is called Maharasa. Its dramatic excitement constantly increases. It is
unlimited by time and space, but if the Lord so wills He can reveal it at
certain times, at certain places (so in Brindavan). His actions have no object
to achieve, they are expressions of pure delight. This perpetual hide and seek
is the Lila of the Lord, an activity, in which He ever delights to indulge and
to the great joy of all who have realized Him. All beings were called into
existence by the ocean-like Prakriti and advance towards Her – nothing can stop
it. Mathusree said: You can never know who I am unless I afford you a glimpse.
I am the power behind the universe, Purusha and Prakriti.” Mother is the
consciousness incarnate of the world, anyone She forgets is deprived of
consciousness, She is the primal energy in creating, sustaining and destroying
the universe, and again that energy in form of the Mother nourishes everything.
No Jiva can approach the Lord except through the.channel cut out for him by Her. We must worship our Mother to show us the way
to the place where the beloved of our
hearts resides. Lord Haranath and Mathusree are One in Two or
Two in One, the composite personality Kusum Haranath. On several occasions
Mathjusree showed Herself as Lord Haranath to devotees. She gave Her children to understand: “My love as Mother has brought me down this
time into the world. I desire that you, my children, become totally pure.When
you have taken once refuge in Me don’t get dejected should you don’t find time
to think of Me or fail to love me. Have no fear. I am always loving you in my mind and
that will be enough for you. Just as heat cannot be separated from fire so love
and compassion from Me. You have no separate existence from Me. I am always
with you, even if I leave this body. Give me a drop of your love and I shall
give you an ocean of my love. It is my permanent work to protect my
children and it delights my heart seing all of
you bound together by one bond of love. Don’t worry about anything material or
spiritual since you have your Mother as eternal savior and protector. Everything
is known to Mathusree, She is ever helping us with exactly what we need, and
cannot bear the slightest misery of Her devotees. But let no one be deceived by
Her human garb and outward actions. She fully hides Her innate glory from
mortal eyes. When once a devotee asked the Mother what She repeats on Her Mala,
Mother said: “what do I repeat except
all your names?”
The Lord and
His Name are not two separate things, but only one. He is where His Name is. Who takes
His Name will be merged with its vibrations, absorbed in the current of divine
ecstasy which its repetition engenders, mounting to the most exalted form of
divine love. Lord Haranath did not ask His devotees to chant His own name but
raised no objections. On one occasion He said before a gathering of devotees
“after I pass away you will realize what immense power the Lord has placed in
the Name KUSUMA HARANATH. When Sri P.C. Ganguly asked Kusuma Kumari Devi if it
is enough to repeat the Name Kusuma Hara. She replied “it is quite enough”. The
five letter word KUSUMA HARA (the Panchakshari) is all-powerful. By repeating
the combined Name Kusum Hara we are in effect invoking the Lord’s Shakti, without Her the Lord would
remain unknown. Constant Japa of Lord’s Name creates in us a liking for the
Lord which in course of time develops into love, pure, transcendental love leading
to divine Bhava in our hearts .Faith in the divine Name arises as result of
penance and austerities. It is our priceless treasure. When taken only once
Vishnu’s discuss guards us on all sides. A
moments life with Kusum Hara Name on our lips is to be valued more than a million
years without it. All sins fly far away if one incessantly chants His Name.
Chanting His Yugal Name awakens PREMA – the Summum Bonum of human existence.
Prema is the particular property of the Lord and His Shakti, no other Gods or
Goddesses can know or possess it without their grace. By its very nature it overleaps
all bounds and reaches Jivas to the feet of the Lord. Once Prema reigns supreme in the heart all distinctions
between God and man are altogether effaced. We are infinite nothingness filled
with divine consciousness. The Lord is no longer considered as God but as most
intimate, as our very own. He wants only love from us, nothing else. When we
return to Him He takes us into His embrace, forgetting all our iniquities. To
understand this play we have to rise above our bodies and intellect and go to
the Heart Plane, the plane of love. Once the Ego (identification with the body)
is gone we are no longer a person, but consciousness, formless. The Ego is the
material that gives name and form, once destroyed, name and form disappear.
Prakriti (material force) is the
Guru of the Universe, her mother, receptacle of love and the main stay and
shelter of worlds seen and unseen. She is the source of various sorts of grace and beauty.
Without Her this creation cannot exist. Does She ever allow anyone to know Her
fully. She always conceals Her true aspects and appears in false garbs to
enchant the world. She is the gate keeper of Rashmandal. Lord Haranath revealed
in His letters to Her who She is: “You are the fullest manifestation of energy
and love, the world so replete with trials and tribulations you filled with
joy. You are the consciousness of the universe. When you forget anyone he
becomes unconscious. In this world you are the cause of bondage and
liberation.The world would come to an end if your powers remain suspended even
for a moment. Only by virtue of your tenderness have you kept the fierce energy
of males neutralized, thus maintaining
harmony of the universe. Those who have realized your nature are rare indeed.
One who understood you has realized God. No one is capable of understanding the
play you are playing. You are the Jamuna with her ordinary and opposite
currents. Those who are not favored by you can never run against the current.
It is you who throws down into immense depths and who lifts high up. You are the sovereign of
the realm of created beings, you are their Brahma, Vishnu and Siva. You give
birth, nourish and destroy in the shape of
the dreadful destroyer. You are many-sides:
willful, merciful, awful and dreadful. You are the basic foundation of
the world. Your primal energy is creating, sustaining and destroying the
universe, and that energy again in the shape of the Mother is nourishing
everybody. No Jiva can approach the Lord except through the channel cut out for
him by you. All are born of you, you are the rope that has let us down from our
home above into the creation below. If we cut the rope there is no chance for
us of ever returning to our true home. Show us the way to the place where the
Beloved of our hearts resides.”Lord Haranath charmed His hearers with sweet
discourses on religious topics whereas Mother preferred to remain absolutely
mute.
He revealed
that he is nothing without Kusuma Kumari as he is in Her and She in Him, ever
inseparable and indivisible. If Lord Haranath’s life was concealed, that of Mother
Kusuma Kumari Devi was hidden beyond comprehension. She had chosen to remain in
the background up to May 1927 - Lord Haranath’s departure- afterwards the two
have simply merged into ONE WHOLE. The depth of Her love for Her children is
indescribable. Like the Lord She took upon Herself diseases of Her children.
She immured Herself in obscurity, drew around Herself an impenetrable veil. Very few
could get an infinitesimal fraction of Her glory. She seemed an ordinary woman
engaged in household duties and rearing children. Only to a chosen few She revealed something about Herself. The Lord
in Her is not visible to our eyes but He is there all the same. Whatever She
says or does is the action of the composite personality Kusum Haranath. About
30 years after Lord Haranath’s demise – on the 14.8.1956 at 2:15 pm Mother
departed at Tatanagar.
When an Avatar exits the world He takes care to leave all his power and
glory, all his grace and sweetness concentrated in His Name. The Name therefore
has no earthly limitation and is in comparison to the Avatar an even greater
force.
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