Each year, reading Gurumayi’s poem in honor of Mother’s Day feels deeply special. To me, every word of the poem gently reveals the boundless love, care, and compassion that a mother showers upon her child. The poems have always touched my heart, but this year the experience felt even more profound and personal.
For the first time, I was able to experience the poem from two sacred perspectives—as a child who is receiving her mother’s unconditional love and also as a mother who is learning the depth, tenderness, and selflessness that naturally flows from herself toward her own child. Each verse seemed to awaken gratitude, love, and a deeper understanding within me.
Gurumayi’s words often have a unique way of expressing emotions that are beyond description. This poem became not just something to read but something to truly experience and to feel within my heart. It reminded me of the quiet sacrifices, endless patience, nurturing strength, and divine love that motherhood embodies.
Thane, India
Gurumayi’s Mother’s Day poems are like an initiation for me every year. For many years I wanted to be kinder to my mother, to understand my relationship with her better. As I have studied Gurumayi’s Mother’s Day poems, everything within my being has become rearranged and transformed. A few years ago, I actually moved back to my family home so I could be closer to my aging mother and help her.
This year another extraordinary teaching in Gurumayi’s poem brought me deeper into my heart. I don’t have children, but I have recently adopted a cat, so I loved the reference to the person who saved all his money for his beloved cat.
I am also deeply inspired to include ongoing “reconciliation” with my mother as an important part of my sadhana.
Warrnambool, Australia
I find it inspiring that Gurumayi describes “reconciliation” as something we can do to honor Mother’s Day. For me the process of “reconciliation” has been a very long journey. For decades I made many practical efforts to improve my relationship with my mother, and I offered many prayers. The relationship continued to be difficult. Finally, I let go of my focus on improving the relationship and just let it be as it was. With this shift, I felt much better and more at ease.
Eventually, as my mother’s outer circumstances shifted, she became much more positive toward me. Recently, a very challenging circumstance arose for her, and I was able to be present for her in a way that was helpful to her while still being true to myself.
For me “reconciliation” has involved accepting my relationship with my mother—as it is—and trusting that grace is with me, with my mother, and with our relationship.
California, United States
Reading Gurumayi’s poem, “The Magnetism of Motherhood,” reminded me of a wondrous interaction between my mom and Gurumayi.
My mother first encountered the Siddha Yoga path when Baba married my wife and me at the Siddha Yoga Ashram in Oakland. Years later my mother came with me to Shree Muktananda Ashram to participate in her first Siddha Yoga Shaktipat Intensive. During the Intensive, Gurumayi gave darshan. When I introduced my mom, Gurumayi said to her, “You are very beautiful.” Then she turned to me and said, “Did you know your mother is very beautiful?” I said “Yes!”
My mother had always believed she was plain and ordinary. She was incredibly moved and touched by how Gurumayi saw her.
To have my dear mother receive shaktipat, and to hear Gurumayi express so emphatically how my family and I have always seen her, is something I will always remember and for which I am profoundly grateful.
California, United States