With gritting teeth you bore that excruciating pain During labour when I was born For a year you remained without feeling any taste With weakening body and wet beds You carried my burden in your womb with all patience The greatest of the children cannot redeem Your sufferings, but can only bow down at your feet, O Mother.. Aasthaam taavadeeyam prasooti samaye Durvaara shoola vythhaa, Nairuchyam tanushoshanam, malamayee Shayyaa cha saamvatsaree Ekasyaapi na garbha bhaara bharana kleshasya yasya kshamo Yaadum nishkrithimunnathopi tanayastasyai jananyai namah ~ Jagatguru Adi Shankara in Mathru Panchakam. He broke his vows of sanyasin to come and meet his mother at her deathbed when he composed this panchakam. All our scriptures and Puranas extoll Mother as equivalent to God. Upanishads say Matru Devo Bhava. The first nama (name of God) in Lalita Sahasranama is Sri Mata. She is revered as Dhatri (one who bears us), Janani (one who gives birth to us), Amba (one who nourishes us), Veerasu (one who makes us a hero) and Shushru (one who protects and takes care of us). There is no other being who is given the same pedestal or stature as the Mother. The most beautiful word in all languages is mother and its equivalents - J.S. Mill A big _/\_ to all Mothers on this day and every day... Kishore
Posted on: Sun, 11 May 2014 03:09:43 +0000
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