Mother Meera

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Mother Meera
Mother Meera
Personal
Born
Kamala Reddy

(1960-12-26) 26 December 1960 (age 63)
Chandepalle, Telangana, India
ReligionHinduism

Mother Meera, born Kamala Reddy (born 26 December 1960) is believed by her devotees to be an embodiment (

Divine Mother (Shakti or Devi).[1]

Life account

Mother Meera Ashram, Madanapalle, A.P., India

Born in

samādhi, a state of complete spiritual absorption, at the age of six, which lasted for a whole day.[2] When she was 12 her uncle Bulgur Venkat Reddy met her for the first time, and was convinced that the girl had already appeared to him in the form of visions. He came to believe that she is the Divine Mother and started to take care of her, allowing her to unfold her inner experiences. Her parents Antamma and Veera Reddy live in Madanapalle, Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh.[3]

In 1974, uncle Reddy brought Mother Meera to the

darshan
. She is however not associated with the Sri Aurobindo Ashram today. In 1979 she was invited by her first devotees to Canada, where she went several times. Meanwhile, uncle Reddy's health started to deteriorate.

In 1981 she made her first trip to

, a small town in Germany. Previously, in the early 1990s, she gave darshan in a house in the town of Thalheim, some 5 km northwest of Hadamar in Germany. She also visits the United States on a regular basis (see links below).

Activities

Mother Meera receives thousands of visitors of all religions for darshan which she conducts in total silence. Her darshan consists of a ritual, where she will touch a person's head, and then look into their eyes. During this process, she reportedly 'unties knots' in the person's subtle system and permeates them with light.

Self) in collaboration with other saints and divine beings, as she says, making spiritual progress on earth easier.[7]
About this light she says:

Like electricity, the Light is everywhere, but one must know how to activate it. I have come for that.[8]

Through Japa, the mental remembrance of any Divine Name or Mantra, which may be done informally, and whenever convenient, people could open themselves up to this Light.[9] She does not claim to be a guru or have followers. To be connected to her work, people do not have to recognise her. Her teaching is mainly related to Bhakti, that is devotion to God, and in that she accepts all denominations.

Mother Meera does not belong to any particular tradition, except for a certain closeness to the work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother,[10] whom she was reported to have met in their subtle bodies, when she was a child, visiting their Samadhi (grave).[11] She teaches the unity of all religions. Everyone can go their own ways. It is only important to be connected with the light (the personal spiritual role model) every day by praying, reading or meditating.

Critics

After splitting from Mother Meera, the writer and former follower Andrew Harvey wrote The Sun at Midnight.[12] In it, Harvey accused Meera of homophobia, saying that Mother Meera disapproved of Harvey's marriage to another man. In his first book about her, Hidden Journey, Harvey had originally praised her as an avatar, attributing his own claimed enlightenment to her. Harvey's accusation of homophobia is disputed. One of Harvey's former lovers, the writer Mark Matousek (1997),[13] said that: "I do know that the idea that she's homophobic is completely ridiculous. For God's sake, we were served breakfast in bed together in her house."[14]

Books

  • Answers, Part I – by Mother Meera,
  • Answers, Part II – by Mother Meera,

Quotes

"One common mistake is to think that one reality is the reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one." – Answers, Part I

See also

  • Meera

Notes

  1. ^ Adilakshmi Olati, "The Mother", page 4
  2. ^ Adilakshmi, 'The Mother', page 9
  3. ^ Mother Meera, "Answers, part II", page 21 -23
  4. ^ Adilakshmi, 'The Mother', page 10
  5. ^ Adilakshmi, 'The Mother', page 7
  6. ^ Adilakshmi, "The Mother", pages 87 -88
  7. ^ Adilakshmi, "The Mother", pages 38 – 40
  8. ^ Answers, Part I
  9. ^ Mother Meera, "Answers, Part I", pages 89 -98
  10. ^ See 'Sri Aurobindo Research Academy' in Mother Meera, "Answers, Part II", pages 189 – 195
  11. ^ Adilakshmi, "The Mother", pages 10 – 12
  12. ^ Mark Matousek Homepage www.markmatousek.com, accessed 16 May 2021
  13. ^ Mark Matousek, "Sex, Death, Enlightenment"

Further reading

External links