I was just wondering if anybody worshiped the mother goddess or mother earth. Being a bit disillusioned with the hypocrisy of modern religions as a child I started to make up my own and found later that it resembled this religion. I would love to know how, apart from loving and caring for the mother and everything she’s created how you have gone about worshiping her?
Worship of Gaia is older than Christianity and perhaps the oldest belief (some dispute Krishna being based in the arrival of Vedas 5000 years ago).
Yeah I've taken to that too Uh don't know about worship, just do the things you mentioned and that feels enough for now.
I have heard of many who worship both the mother and the father aspect of God... if you ever read anything by Paramahansa Yogananda ...he teaches both love for the Divine Mother and all her incarnations and the Holy Father and all his as well.... it is thought that the Mother is Divine Love and the Father Divine Wisdom... and worshiping Her is exactly as you've mentioned above, loving Her and caring for Her creations...
There is also the perspective that the earth is infinite in the spiritual realm, a subset of the greater infinite that is God.
Actually though - some of the earth is beautiful - some of it not so great from the human perspective. I mean things like earthquakes, tsunamis and so on.
It's hard for me to want to think this way only about the earth. The earth is dependant on a lot of things. The sun and moon are two major extraterrestrial players, but all the planets have some gravitational effect. Plus, the whole universe and it's laws are such as to create and support the Earth, and allow life to flourish. It's all one big beautiful system.
george carlin once did a skit where he talked about worshipping the sun as a god, it gives you everything you need, light, life, energy, food, and it shines on everything and loves everything unconditionally, makes sense to me....also once read an idea about the sun being the male aspect of creation and the earth being the female aspect, creating everything from the energy the sun gives it, hence the name, mother earth.
This is by Swami Vivekananda: Far too little is known about the Divine Mother of the Universe and what little of this is available comes to us in the form of either scriptural references couched in archaic language or contemporary representations of the Divine Mother emphasizing limited concepts which concern arcane metaphysics or the worship of nature and the elements. Whereas neither of these interpretations are objectionable, each presenting a portion of the picture of what She embodies, it is time, especially in this auspicious day and age when the Avatar of Durga/Kali, Sri Ramakrishna, has appeared in our midst, to offer up a more comprehensive rendering of Her all- pervasive presence and all-enthralling appearance. In such an undertaking, we must naturally part company with those who maintain that the infinite Mother of the Universe is merely an anthropomorphic goddess, merely a nature spirit, merely a universal power, merely a concept or a symbol for Reality, merely a feminine principle. Her appearance in form always springs from Her formless essence and the two are inseparable. "The calm sea is the Absolute; the same sea in waves is Divine Mother. She is time, space, and causation. God is Mother and has two natures, the conditioned and the unconditioned. As the former, She is God, nature, and soul (humanity). As the latter, She is unknown and unknowable. Out of the Unconditioned came the trinity god, nature, and soul, the triangle of existence... A bit of Mother, a drop, was Krishna, another was Buddha, another was Christ. The worship of even one spark of Mother in our earthly mother leads to greatness. Worship Her if you want love and wisdom." -- Swami Vivekananda, Inspired Talks, July, 1895.
