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The story narrated in the film went like this: Narada, as usual, was
having fun. (Narada is a demigod with a divine position - that is, he
can communicate with man and with the gods as he pleases, and he serves
as an intermediary, but then he likes to have fun!) So he was
quarrelling with one of the goddesses, I no longer recall which one, and
he told her ... (Ah, yes! The quarrel was with Saraswati.) Saraswati
was telling him that knowledge is much greater than love (much greater
in that it is much more powerful than love), and he replied to her, 'You
don't know what you're talking about! (Mother laughs) Love is
much more powerful than knowledge.' So she challenged him, saying, 'Well
then, prove it to me.' - 'I shall prove it to you,' he replied. And the
whole story starts there. He began creating a whole imbroglio on earth
just to prove his point.
It was only a film story, but anyway, the goddesses, the three
wives of the Trimurti - that is, the consort of Brahma, the consort of
Vishnu and the consort of Shiva - joined forces (! ) and tried all kinds
of things to foil Narada. I no longer recall the details of the story
... Oh yes, the story begins like this: one of the three - I believe it
was Shiva's consort, Parvati (she was the worst one, by the way!) - was
doing her puja. Shiva was in meditation, and she began doing her puja in
front of him; she was using an oil lamp for the puja, and the lamp fell
down and burned her foot. She cried out because she had burned her
foot. So Shiva at once came out of his meditation and said to her, 'What
is it, Devi?' (laughter) She answered, 'I burned my foot!' Then Narada
said, 'Aren't you ashamed of what you have done? - to make Shiva come
out of his meditation simply because you have a little burn on your
foot, which cannot even hurt you since you are immortal!' She became
furious and snapped at him, 'Show me that it can be otherwise!' Narada
replied, 'I am going to show you what it is to really love one's husband
- you don't know anything about it!' page 216 , Mother's Agenda , volume 1 , 4th Nov. - 1958 |
To me, it's very simple. Narada was a demigod, as we know, and he belonged to the overmental world and was able to materialize - those beings don't have a psychic being. The gods don't have in themselves the divine spark which is the heart of the psychic being, since only ON THE EARTH (I am not even referring to the material universe), only on the earth was there the Descent of divine Love that was the origin of the divine Presence in the heart of Matter. And naturally, as they don't have a psychic being, they don't know, they have no knowledge of the psychic being. Some of those beings even decided to take on a physical body in order to experience the psychic being - not many. page 18 , Mother's Agenda , volume 6 , 12th Jan - 1965 |