Appearance Day Celebration

Friday & Saturday, November 14 & 15

Dakini’s, Matrika’s, Sacred Mothers and Consorts. Wild Goddesses of transformation and guardian protectors of the tantric path. Shakti is all that is expressive of cosmic energy from the epic to the mundane. In the kitchen as Annapurna and in the cremation ground as Chamunda, every facet of life is cognized as the domain of the Great Goddess simply known as Shakti. Shakti is the essence of our life force, and this celebration we will be honoring Her presence through practice and play.

“Mother is the first manifestation of power and is considered a higher ideal than Father. The name of Mother brings the idea of Shakti, Divine Energy and Omnipotence; the baby believes its Mother to be all powerful, able to do anything. The Divine Mother is the Kundalini sleeping in us. Without worshipping Her we can never know ourselves.

All merciful, all powerful, omnipresent – these are the attributes of the Divine Mother. She is the sum total of the energy of the universe.

Every manifestation of power in the Universe is Mother. She is life, she is intelligence, she is love. She is a person and can be seen and known – as Sri Ramakrishna saw and knew Her. Established in the idea of Mother, we can do anything. She quickly answers prayer.

She can show Herself to us in any form at any moment. The Divine Mother can have form, rupa, and name, nama, or name without form; and as we worship Her in these various aspects, we can rise to Pure Being, having neither form nor name.

A bit of Mother, a drop, was Krishna; another was Buddha; another was Christ. The worship of even one spark of Mother in our earthly mother leads to greatness. Worship Her if you want love and wisdom.”

— Swami Vivekananda