MAI-ISM

 A popular religion to suit the modern world should have the following characteristics 

(1 ) Religion must have a definite form and should not be an idealistic, incomprehensible, chaos-creating, airy and hazy something. 

(2) Religion should not be a source of superstition.

 (3) Relation of man to man must be hundred times much better. Be we first a man, then a brother and thereafter alone, a religious man.

(4) Religion should be recognised to mean the essence and the experience of life lived.

(5) Everyone should be and should be considered under the direct protection and guidance of God.

(6) Preachers should be witnesses and not lawyers and professors.

(7)  As few limitations as possible should be set on the conception of God and on the innocent harmless and free latitude and living of men.

(8) All adornments and adjuncts should be gradually slackened and even removed, as soon as,  at the stage when they are found to be obstructive, is reached.

(9) Religion should be accommodative, constructive and progressive. Religion must provide for pruning from age to age.

(A) Mai-ism is the psychological religion for one and all of any religion or no religion without caste, creed or colour. There can be a Hindu Mai-ist, a Mohamedan-Mai-ist, a Christian Mai-ist and so on. With full reverence to and while following one’s own religion, one can be a Mai-ist. Mai-ism is one’s own personal religion to be adopted after the age of discretion and not one’s ancestral religion of one’s birth.

( B ) Under Mai-ism, there is no place, by its very postulates, for the condemnation of Harijans as ‘ Untouchables, Woman’s subjugation by Man or condemnation by routine religion as ” Narakasya Dwaram “( Hell’s Gate ) has no room, as every Mai-ist is expected to look upon every woman ( except his own wife )  as representative form of Mother and as under Mai-ism the co-operation of man and woman in the Mother worship is the highest spiritualising force. The spirit underlying the words ” Heathen “, ” Kafir “, ” Mlechcha ” ” Durvan “, etc., has no existence under Mai-ism.

(C) One who does not believe in God, but who do believe in the common-tie of Humanity and practises service and extends Love to all, is a ” Mai-ist “,

 

(D) The six tenets of Mai-ism are:–

1) God is more merciful when approached as Mother;

2) Mother is mother of all, without caste, creed or colour;

3) Mother smiles, on one’s trying to love All, to one’s best;

4) Mother saves, on one’s trying to serve All, with one’s best;

5) Mother showers Her Grace, on one’s devotion to Her.

6) Mother serves, on one’s living the life of universal Love and Service, with Devotion to Her and Unconditional Cheerful Self-Surrender to Mother’s Divine Will.

 

(E) BASIC BELIEFS OF A MAI-IST ARE : – 

(1) Unity of all Religions.

(2) Universal relation of all human beings as members of One Family.

(3) No Communalism. No Provincialism. No Nationalism and No Racialism.

(4) For Mother’s Love, Grace, Devotion and Mercy, the daily practice of universal sisterhood and brotherhood, is an indispensable requirement.

(5) Everyone must have the right of selecting one’s own line of evolution.

(6) Precise evaluation of essentials and non-essentials of one’s religiosity, with test-stones of fundamental and eternal truths.

(7) Religion not to be permitted being made a cause for disunion, domination, prejudice, exploitation or superstition, and not to fail respecting science, reason, conscience, experience, human psychology and individual merits and demerits.

(8) One’s superiority to be least thought of, being trivial, transitory, circumstantial and not single-handedly earned.

(9) Not making most of the little differences of high and low, which are often prejudicial, and sometimes even imaginary.

(10) One’s cheerfulness never to be lost as nothing is irreparable or unachievable under Mother’s Grace.

(11) Be ever optimistic. The highest difference between man and man is nothing compared to what Mother’s Grace can make in a moment. A sinner can be a saint at the second moment and a saint may turn out to be a devil after a day.

(12) Destruction is for re-construction, doubting for believing, evil for good,  sinfulness for sinlessness.

(13) Rise above all superstitions. There is no ‘Choo-Mantar'(magic) for a true Mai-ist, except the repetition of  ‘ Jai Mai’, Guru’s Grace, Mother’s Mercy, one’s own highest exertion, and the world’s sympathy.

(14) Mai-ist’s highest initial grounding – Motherhood of God, Universality.

Mai-ist’s highest life-maxims – Love, Service, Devotion, unconditional and cheerful self- Surrender to Mother’s Divine Will.

Some of the practical measures for practical Mai-ists are :

– (1) Holding common prayers, Bhajans or Kirtans of God in any name or form and of any saints or devotees, holding classes, delivering lectures and undertaking tours for the general spiritual uplift.

(2) Introducing common prayers in Schools, Colleges and in masses.

(3) Holding Mother worship, personal or impersonal in any form, as may be agreed upon by one and all.

(4) Convening social of sisters or brothers or combined or of families, without caste, creed or colour.

(5) Promulgation of common religious and allied literature and encouragement of studies of all religions by individuals of different religions. Publication of extracts from sacred books of all religions.

(6) Helping poor or bereaved families, deserving students, orphanages, opening celibate Mai-ist Schools, starting widow-homes, offering medical aid to the needy, guiding wedded pairs to-wards spiritual matrimonial living, praying for the peace of the departing or departed souls etc.

(7) Promotion of immensely practical universal sisterhood and brotherhood in daily life.

(8) Abolition of racial, national, provincial, social and religious prejudices and intercession for bringing about honourable peace and equitable compromise.

(9)  Constructing, opening or encouraging to open Mother’s Lodges, temples, Homes and Colonies under any denomination religious, national or communal, of any people, in any place.

The process of evolution of Mother’s followers on attainment of Guru’s Grace and Mother’s Mercy is as under : – 

(1) Acquisition of merit ( Punya ) by doing religious acts , Japa, worship, charity, services etc. which will lead in the first instance to the fulfillment of all legitimate and moral desires, next to patience and proofness, and then to the appreciation of the virtuous, religious and saintly people and their ways of living.

(2)  The actions and qualities of Love, Service, Devotion and Self-surrender having fairly matured by practice, Mother will so bring about circumstances and opportunities that the follower will be lifted up from his routine and worldly life and will be ushered into the company of virtuous, religious, devotional and saintly people.

(3) Constant contact of religious people and their Service, their Imitation and their Grace will create a proper understanding of good and evil, truth and untruth, righteousness and unrighteousness etc. , and these will introduce one to Godliness after sufficient practice and disciplinary training in goodness, virtue etc.

(4) This introduction to godliness will ultimately result in the great liking for godliness, virtuous, devotional, unselfish and higher living and finally in the germination of Love towards God.

(5) Devotion to and Love of God will perfect the true understanding about soul-knowledge and will bring the Supreme Self of God and the individual self of the follower much nearer, through faith and conviction strengthened by Mother, often through miraculous Grace.

(6) Love of God will result in the Love to God’s creation.

(7) Feeling the finger or hand of God in all arrangements, getting the sight of God occasionally, feeling oneness with God on self-surrender and the inward satisfaction of  ‘ having been accepted ‘.

(8) Establishing a perpetual relation with God and helping God in all grand work with the Power and Love which God is pleased to confer.

(9) Merging in Mother.

UNIVERSAL DIVINE MOTHER BLESS US ALL

AUTHOR : MAI SWARUP MAI MARKAND