Great Women Initiates (Rosicrucian Order, AMORC Kindle Editions) by Hélène Bernard

Author:Hélène Bernard
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: Rosicrucian Order, AMORC
Published: 2015-02-13T06:00:00+00:00

6 M ANANDA MOYÎ

(1896-1982)

IN TIPPERAH (BANGLA-DESH), a small village mostly Moslem, Srî Bipin Bihari Bhattâchârya and Srimatî Mokshadâ Sundarî Devî met, married, and under the high protection of “Shiva” gave birth to the most respectable figure of Hindu mysticism, the most revered of all the great contemporary sages—Nirmalâ Sundarî Devî, nicknamed Khushir (the happy one) and better known under the name of Mâ Ananda Moyî. Her birth, on April 30, 1896, just prior to sunrise, was exactly like her life—serene and tear less. Obedient, obliging, and kind toward everyone, Nirmalâ helped her mother in her daily chores and devoted more time to her brothers and sisters than to studying. Although she loved to intone sacred chants with her father when she accompanied him to mystical ceremonies, her religious education remained rudimentary. What did she learn from the god Shiva? That he depicted one of the principles of the Hindu Trinity; that he was the pure and the impure, the non-temporal and the absolute, the destroyer and the creator, the inevitable transition and the rebirth to the infinite; that he was the master of nature and life, of time passing and of procreative magic; that he was the whole being, harmonious and superior; that he was the cross and the lotus.

“Nature is magic, and the Lord Shiva is its master. All beings emanate from him, the Lord of Majesty, the Magician. In knowing him, one gains peace, he who rules over time, he who nestles in the hearts of beings, Shiva of a thousand forms. He is beyond the visible, none can see him; those who see him with the eye of the heart become immortal.”*

*Excerpt from a sacred Hindu text

At birth, Nirmalâ possessed her mystical personality and characteristics. Very often, while fully engrossed at work or in a game, her eyes would suddenly look far away and her features would stiffen into an inert mask. She thus meditated for a long time, and when her soul seemed to have reunited with her body and her face came back to life, her silence, respected by her companions, seemed to say: “I was far and yet so near. I was no longer here but I was everywhere.”

Early in 1909, without showing any sign of discontent or rebellion, always full of omnipresent joy and communicative, she married Ramani Mohan Chakravarty, a young man from an important Brahmin family, thus fulfilling her parents’ wish and that of the Supreme Deity. The wedding ceremony over, Nirmalâ returned to her childhood home where she resumed the imperturbable life she had led there for almost thirteen years because, according to custom, one year had to elapse before she could reunite with her husband and move into her new home.

Time marched on. For four years, Nirmalâ led, with Bholanâth (the name usually given to her husband) and her in-laws, the same life as at her parents’ home, in strict obedience and submission to her elders, without ever uttering a complaint or a wish. She amazed, she aroused, she soothed.

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