Stories of the deities

It was the Ekadesha Rudra Puja in 1983 in New York. I was assigned to make the crown. I cut it out of cardboard, covered it with blue velvet and decorated it with five gold stars. In the puja Shri Mataji explained that the distinctive powers of the Ekadesha would now be used constructively and to transform.

After the puja we went into Shri Mataji’s room to take vibrations from Her body. Rustom Burjorgee was out in the living room watching a video of the puja, and I remember Shri Mataji saying, ‘No more mantras!’ as Her body was already overflowing with vibrations. So we placed our hands at various places on Her body. I had my hand on Her right hip and She began to tell us stories of the deities.

The one I remember was about the rakshasa Ravana and his burning desire to ‘possess’ the Adi Shakti, which was the reason he stole Shri Sita from Shri Rama. Prior to that, apparently, Ravana had earned a boon from Shri Shiva, and this rakshasa insisted that He hand over Shri Parvati. Shri Shiva could not say ‘No’, having already agreed to offer a boon, so he handed Her over but with the warning not to let Her touch the Mother Earth. Since that was Parvati’s mother, She would be rescued and swallowed up by the Bhumi Devi. So Ravana carried the Adi Shakti on his back and flew through the air with his prize. Shri Vishnu, seeing the plight of his sister, sent the sage Narada to thwart Ravana. Narada flew up beside the demon.

‘Why, oh why, are you carrying that old woman on your back?’ he asked.

‘Old woman? What do you mean? This is a very beautiful goddess I have here!’ Ravana replied.

‘Just look and see,’ Narada went on. So he turned his head around and saw Adi Shakti in an ancient aspect, as a wrinkled elderly woman, laughing at him through a toothless grin! Shocked, he dropped Her, and as She reached the Mother Earth, She was swallowed up by Her mother.

After the story, we asked about the false guru who is an incarnation of the demon Ravana, who Shri Mataji had visited at his so called ashram at his invitation, in 1970, just before opening the Sahasrara.

‘Why did he invite You, when he recognised You and knew You could destroy him?’ we asked Shri Mataji.

‘Aha!’ She said. ‘It was his old desire (to possess the Adi Shakti) manifesting again!’ He could not help himself.

Kristine Kirby


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