Mother Angali - Siddha Worship Procedure
Part 2
(Part 1)
To learn mathematics, you should consult an expert mathematician.
To learn phsics, you should consult an expert physicist.
To learn the secrets of the spiritual world, you should consult the Siddhas.
To learn how to worship Mother Angali, you should consult one who has had Her darshan and received Her Grace.
Such a one is the Sathguru, Guru Mangala Gandharva Venkataraman.
As mentioned elsewhere, the Sathguru used to meet his sathguru at the Mother Angali temple
in Royapuram. He used to circle the Mother's sanctum 1008 times before
before meeting with his teacher.
The result of such prayer and guru bhakti was Mother Angali's darshan and Her blessings.
Thus it is ideal to learn the Mother Angali worship procedure from the Sathguru,
Her true devotee, one who has seen Her.
The Sathguru has said, "Namakku ellamey Angaalamma thaan - For us, Mother Angali is Everything."
That's true surrender to Mother Angali; when She becomes Everything in a devotee's life and one sees
nothing but Mother Angali in Everything, then the devotee has indeed surrendered to the Mother.
How does one refer to the Mother?
The Sathguru refers to Her as Angaalamma.
Angaalamma literally means Mother Angali.
(Angali + amma = Angaalamma.
Amma = mother.)
So refer to the Mother lovingly as Angalamma or Mother Angali, just like the Sathguru, Her true devotee, does.
The full name of the Nameless Mother is Sri Angala Parameswari.
We know this from the Sathguru. While disciples and aspirants refer to Him as
Sathguru and Guru Mangala Gandharva, he has referred to himself for decades as
Sri Angala Parameswari Adimai (the loving slave of Mother Angali), the name given
to him by his Sathguru when the latter commanded him to take on the mantle of Maha Guru Agasthiar's
lineage of Sathgurus.
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| Mother Angaali as revealed to the Sathguru, |
| Guru Mangala Gandharva Venkataraman |
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The All Encompassing Mother
Mother Angali envelops the entire universe in Her all encompassing compassion.
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She's our beloved Mother - She's the Mother of all.
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She's the Mother of the Ashram, the Mother of the Sathguru and the Ashramites.
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But She's not just the Mother of the Ashram - She's the Mother of the entire world.
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But She's not just the Mother of the world - She's the Mother of the entire universe.
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She's the Creator, Protector and Destroyer.
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She's Everything - She's the blessor of even Brahma, Narayana and Siva.
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She's arul kadal - the Ocean of Grace - Dayaa Saagari
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She's karunaiyin ellai - the very limit of compassion, grace and mercy.
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Humans want to love and be loved.
If you want to learn about love, learn it from Mother Angali, the universal expert in the field of love -
not impermanent human love, but eternal, ever growing divine love -
the love that conquers all - the love that yields every possible spiritual gift.
If you want love, where else can you get it but from Mother Angali? She's the very definition of love -
the love that binds devotee and deity in timeless divine union.
Mother Angali Worship According to the Siddhas
How can one describe Mother Angalis's boundless compassion,
Her matchless grace,
Her all conquering love?
How does one worship such a One? Where does one start? And how does one progress on this
field of divine love that's Mother Angali? These details can only be learnt from Her true devotee.
For the sake of Her devotees, Sathguru Venkataraman composed the Sri Angala Parameswari Andhaadhi.
In the preface, the Sathguru has said that it was Maha Guru Agasthiar who composed this work from inside him.
Reading these 101 andhaadhi songs with love, singing it with love, thinking about it with love
- this is where worship of Mother Angali begins.
The andhaadhi song garland created by that great leader
of the Siddhas, Maha Guru Agasthiar, from inside Her true devotee Sathguru Venkataraman,
is an excellent instrument for learning about the Mother and worshipping her.
The Sathguru, having been blessed with Her darshan, composed
these songs in a state of spiritual ecstasy for the sake of devotess everywhere, as commanded by
the Mother. This work is a product of the Mother's boundless grace.
Her grace and compassion is in every one of the songs
in the andhaadhi song garland.
Every song is a prayer to the Mother who provides all. She's not just a provider of
spiritual wealth, but also of material wealth - whatever you want, you may get from Her.
By Her grace, every song is a wish fulfiller; every song is imbued with Her divine potency.
The wish fulfulling power of every one of these songs is listed in the last few pages of the work.
Her names occur repeatedly in the work - thus reciting it is like reciting Her namavali.
How exactly can one use the andhaadhi song garland in prayer?
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Read it everyday. Read it ten times a day.
Read it 100 times a day. Read it thousands of times a day... your choice.
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Sing these songs in your houses, in temples, in ashrams, in the streets, from your rooftops
and wherever else the Mother inspires you to do so.
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If you're looking for a wish to be fulfilled, recite the specific andhaadhi song
which fulfills that wish 108 or 1008 times daily for 21 consecutive days.
This is where the (wish fulfilling) sadhana begins. It should be continued from thereon.
(As pointed out before, the wish fulfulling power of every one of these songs
is listed in the last few pages of the andhaadhi book. Choose that song
which is imbued with the wish fulfilling power that you seek. However, see below for what you are given if you don't ask for anything.
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But reciting the andhaadhi songs or singing them without asking for anything in return,
purely out of bhakti (devotion) for Mother Angaali, is the best way.
This yields gnana (spiritual enlightenment).
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The true devotee does not ask for anything. He or she does not even think about the gnana that the Mother gives if one doesn't ask for anything.
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Without any thought to what they may get, the true bhakta devotees worship the Mother because they feel that that is their bounden duty. And they do this worship with pure devotion.
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The Mother gives you what you ask for - if you ask for wealth, she'll give you wealth;
if you ask for good health, she'll give you good health. But if you don't ask for anything, She'll give you "gnana" - immortal divine wisdom!
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Your wealth is not yours once you leave your physical body.
Your health is not yours once you leave your physical body.
But your "gnana" (given by the Mother) is always yours.
So what are you going to ask for?
This is the spiritual test in front of you.
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So are you going to ask for something transient, something that you will lose along with your physical body, or are you going to not seek anything and thus get the ultimate, immortal wealth of gnana and merger with the Mother's lotus feet? What is it going to be? That is the question.
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The Mother likes it best when a group of people join together and recite or sing the andhaadhi songs.
This group recitation is very powerful, say the Siddhas.
This is much better than individual recitation of the work.
Gather a group of people and recite it or sing it aloud.
This is the best way of using the andhaadhi song garland in prayer.
The Mother wants you to form prayer groups that will recite the andhaadhi songs as a group.
When the group recitation is complete, feed the poor and the needy.
Think about how a mother feels when her children don't have anything to eat.
Now think about how Mother Angali, the very definition of kindness, would feel if Her poor children
have nothing to eat. Can a devotee of the kindest Mother of all allow this to happen?
Feeding the poor is but a manifestation of Her kindness
and thus the perfect finalé for Her worship.
Reciting or singing the andhaadhi song garland while fasting the entire day
is a potent vrata pooja practice.
You may drink some thulasi water (water in which thulasi leaves have been placed) during this vrata pooja.
Seeing Mother Angali
The Mother Angaali painting of the Agasthiar Ashram was painted by Her divine command.
It shows the Mother exactly as She appeared when She gave darshan to Sathguru Venkataraman.
Clad in green and seated on a throne, the seven tongued jothi flame as Her halo,
sporting the most beautiful and unforgettable half smile ever known,
the unmatched, all conquering gaze of compassion -
that's Mother Angali as She appeared to Her true devotee.
But keep in mind that She's really beyond description.
You have to see Her; in fact, everyone must see Her.
How can one see Her? As the Sathguru has said often, chant Her name 130 million times
or recite any one of the andhaadhi songs 130 million times and you'll see Her.
But seeing the Mother is one thing; merging with Her is another!
So how does one merge with the Mother?
By perfect surrender to the Sathguru - that's the way, She says.
Follow this injunction of the Mother, your Mother, if you want to merge with Her.
Please share this information and this website with one and all.
This is gnaana-dhaanam (giving the gift of spiritual knowledge) for the 21st century.
May Mother Angaali, the Most Compassionate Mother, bless us all!
Click here to listen to selections from these 101 verses on Mother Angaali and have a darshan of the powerful Kal Mandapam Angali Temple - the site of the Great Sadhana of Sathguru Venkataraman.
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