MOTHER AND SHAKTI

Dharmik tradition defines feminine power in many different ways. Many people propose that she is subordinate to men. Some present her as an embodiment of all refineness .Her shyness is described as an ornament that enhances her beauty and charm.  Some present her as a helpless victim of abuse or as if she  undergoes  continuous exploitation.  Some more present her as the ultimate representation of motherhood. Or her as an ultimate destination or some speak  of the success of her feminine position. These analysis are all true and real. The good definitions need be protected and her abuse and exploitation needs to be eliminated.
Dharmik wisdom presents another aspect of feminine diversity and that is her "SHAKTI" or she being  a source of energy.  The Vedic wisdom enumerates the source of everything as the personal God who is the energetic and his counter part as energy. They are inseparable, there is no energy without the energetic and vice versa . Motherhood is one aspect and not all the aspects.   Motherhood represents nourishment of what she brings to this world. But her main aspects should not be forgotten.

Srimati Laxmi, Srimati  Radha, Srimati Sitadevi are the  energies of the pleasure giving potency, pleasure through compassion. But the same Shakti can also be a power house of a different nature .In their justice dissemination they can empower women with the power of destruction of mother Kali  or Mother Rudrani or Durgadevi.

This Shakti's display of compassion and bring a cruel judge to us are her original aspects. Hence we need to deal with Shakti in a more sensitive way.
In her original form she is all good and magnanimous but in her administrative form, especially  towards those who tend to rebel against her see her disciplinarian side.
Draupadi the wife of Pandavas, who was born in fire was compassionate even to some one who killed her own son.  But the Kurus who tried to disrobe Druapadi were beyond forgiveness, therefore she was like a blazing fire who instigated the termination of the entire Kshatriyas race.

Mother Sita who is very compassionate, for Ravana ,and his army  became death personified  and therefore the great Mandodhari while wailing over the dead body of her husband, Ravana, spoke,"my dear husband, you are not dead by the arrows of Rama, but simply by the tears of mother Sita."

It is our choice whether we want  Shakti's compassion and grace or Shakti's passion and be trounced by her?