Sound of Divine Mother: MA

(waves rolling) Namaste dear friends. I'm so looking forward to sharing this particular mantra with you. Again, a very simple sound. A sound that all of us are very familiar with from our baby days. It's the sound, ma.

It's one of the most basic sounds that the human being can produce. It doesn't require any effort. And the result also is that it helps to liberate us in an unbelievable manner. It is the sound of the divine mother again, and therefore , it has all the aspects of that feminine energy. It has a certain soothening, softening, nurturing quality.

The sound ma also helps to draw within us the feminine grace. It is a sound that helps to let go, to forgive all anger, all hatred, all of the negative emotions that restrict us and make us feel like abandon children actually. So the sound ma is an invocation of the mother within our own being, as well as, without in the universe to nurture us and to give us the strength to face whatever difficulty is there. So we are going to explore the sound ma. And then see what experience we have with it.

So, I invite you to first, just close your eyes. Take a deep breath and do the sound ma. Yes, let's start ... (breathing deep) mmmaaaahhhhhhhh What kind of action would come to you when you did this sound? We'll try it once more.

And pay attention to the space that it creates and how that space reflects itself in a particular movement in your body. So, close your eyes. Take a deep breath and do the sound ma. (breathing deep) mmmaaaaaaahhhhhh Very nice. I'm sure that, as you did the sound, you would have also noticed that there is a kind of a calming down of the mind.

The vibrations of the mind come to a rest because the sound, mmm, also has the experience of establishment. And followed by the, aahhh, which is expansion. So with the coming to the rest and expansion, the mind not only calms down, but the mind also then acquires a certain clarity from which thoughts become much more precise. And that in turn helps to build one's self-confidence when one's expression improves. So the calling out of the ma has many benefits at many levels of our being.

Let us do it a last time. And this time, I invite you to do it with the action of surrender. So from your heart, imagine that you're just putting your hands upwards in an oblique manner invoking this supreme energy to release you, to carry you, to support you. Yes. So close your eyes. Take a deep breath and let's do it together.

(breathing deep) mmmmaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh When I was growing up, there was one particular line that struck a deep chord in me. I grew up in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry. And there is a quotation by the mother which says, "If the grace of the divine mother is there with you, "what is there that can touch you or whom need you fear?" So feeling that presence of the divine mother in you. Go out and face the world and you will be safe. Take care.