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What is the Source of the mesmerism of this name and personality?
Even a slight
acquaintance with her life will make us realize that this mesmerism does
not proceed from any aspects of her personality which the modern world
recognizes as significant in women. To all outward appearances the Holy
Mother was just ordinary, or even less than ordinary. Rustic in simplicity,
almost unlettered, and shy and modest, she was far removed from the educated,
self-conscious, active type of modern women. And yet her life finds powerful
responsive echoes from the hearts of all men and women, rustic and modern
alike. It is evident that she has captured in her life and being the fundamental
value which lies at the back of the womanliness of woman and which transcends
all distinctions based on mere sex and the attractions thereof. This fact
alone explains her universal appeal, representing, as she does, not a
mere national or racial type, but the fulfillment of woman as woman, the
realization in flesh and blood of the Eternal Feminine. Swami
Ranganathanandaji |
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