GOD AS MOTHER : BHARATIYA SANKALPAM OF THE DIVINE MOTHER -1. SRI SWAMI CHIDANANDA
10/05/2019 GOD AS MOTHER : SRI SWAMI CHIDANANDA 1. BHARATIYA SANKALPAM OF THE DIVINE MOTHER -1. POST-1. Since the dawn of civilisation, when the primitive man lived in a matriarchal society, the worship of the Divine Mother came into practice. Later on, as civilisation progressed, the matriarchal pattern gradually faded out, and the father became the head of the family unit, where he was treated as the man in authority and to whom everyone looked for guidance and approval. Consequently, there was a change in the concept of God as such; the Fatherhood of God was established. But Mother worship persisted simultaneously, since this concept was psychologically more appealing to the devotee, the mother being nearest in filial affection to the child. Subsequently, a synthetic harmony between the Motherhood and Fatherhood of God was developed by the Hindu religion; the people worshiped Sita and Rama, or Radha and Krishna together. The concept of the human mind is based on relative