BLESSED ARE THEY WHO SERVE FOR THEY SHALL BE SERVED WITH VISION

It is hypocrisy to say 'Oh Mother, I love you so much, when will you give me vision?' and in the same breath allow this state of material misery of Mother's children to persist all around you without even caring to alleviate their misery a wee bit. Just imagine, O mothers on earth, if your own child were to starve or remain illiterate all his/her life and suffer from all sorts of material hardship, would you be happy with your devotees worshipping you with flowers and sandal paste while allowing the misery of your children to continue or would you die to see one such devotee who would feed your hungry child, nurse your sick child and educate your ignorant child? The answer, O mother, is known to you, yet, in total inconsideration of the plight of the poor who are your own children, you remain satisfied with a visit to a shrine or sitting at the feet of a holy one and feel a conceited contentment that your earthly duty as a devotee is over and Mother will be overjoyed to respond to your selfish chant and come at your bidding all the way from Her ethereal abode to give you vision. Far from it. Mother cannot be fooled with material prayers masquerading as piety pure. She can discern the intent of the heart and will not grace the one that remains a stone-heart to the piteous wails rising all around and does nothing to assuage the grief of others. In this age service to sentience beholding the divine in them is righteousness and he who neglects to serve will not be served either by the divine. Hence, it is a mighty myth that Mother can be fooled into granting vision by bribing Her with a few thousand chants and a few hundred offerings of worship at a temple. If Mother is to be pleased, Her children must be looked after just as an earthly mother would wish that her well-wisher would take care of her suffering children. So, give up all this vanity of prayers and petitions and pleas before the mighty Mother and set yourselves to the ennobling service of the divine in the human. In this lies righteousness and this, indeed, is the dharma of the age. And, if indeed you are craving for divine vision, this veritably is the way.