DIVINE MOTHERHOOD.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 557, 12 July 1909, Page 5

DIVINE MOTHERHOOD.

AN ADDRESS

Bister Avabamia, representative of Vedanta of India and America, spoke to an interested audience .yesterday morning at the Masonic •HoH,- lioulcott; fitneot, .upon. \j Motherhood, as expressed-byVedanta; V'-lfo Mother ?,' n 01 ! 3 ' '' 'The speaker gaid, : inter alia i lita Onristmn recogmses .(.--od as ; oiirlieaveiuy ; Father; Vcdantiaris recoghiso God not only, as ■■ father but as.niother.as well;. They recognise Uod as that infinite and, all-pervading spirit incarnated in. all things, and'that divinity in all beings andJhinesjia.Expressedsaccording to degrees of;-unfotdment.: To.: Vedantfans there 15 no sex in isoul,: when'they,'prayV to God .as *Divme i Father' or v'Divine' Mother/ they recognise'tho l)lvine principle and not a personality God'is in all and'of all, and i a father, mother, and offspring;; ,One: of'the Diving saliiHtiojis;-u"scd-;'Ur> Yedantw.'to-rlaY, as we I as for;thousands of years in' tho past, • k> Jliou art my.rather,;Thoii'nrt.'niy'iMothor, Thou art my Fnend,;Thnu arVrayCompanioh, ThoVart my learning. Thou art my Wealth Thou art my All; Thou art my Lord.',' Vedantians recognise that they havo air the Divine potentialities of. God; their desire is to de-.flop Hint riivM'lfv i)ii!.nr fi,e expression 'Divine Mother,'; they recognise the higher, dmmly; attributes ..that.' the -term, mother represent tha.lore,'the endurance, the, tenderness, and; the .-■devotion,; Their object: in reco'insinf thesevatHbur** iis tbot' this moy be hrought forth.and manifested throngh tbV body. ;■';■;: ; ;};,-: }'\]: : . [:/■;/:■ ,v;-v ."•". ;:;;-;'