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Introducing
Mother Om Mission:
A Working Model For Peace, Health and Wellness
By Mother Maya
(Swamini Mayatitananda)
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Wars, conflicts,
violence, and disease are a few of the many faces of poverty with
which our people and countries must cope in the world today. The
way I see it, all forms of poverty -- physical, emotional, and
spiritual -- are rooted in our disregard for the Self and our
estrangement from nature. I believe that a solution to the current
epidemic of poverty in our societies and the world lies in restoring
individual and community health and well-being and the earth's
ecology. Early in life, I discovered for myself that all faces
of poverty can offer extraordinary opportunities for healing and
give insights us into our own powers of awareness. When I was
twenty-three-years-old I was diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
My illness forced me to see that all disease arises from physical,
emotional and spiritual impoverishment, that all pain is a reminder
that we have strayed from the natural rhythms of life and that
nature within and without is the central and perennial source
for health, wellness, prosperity and peace. Working everyday with
peoples devastated by disease, poverty and disharmony, I have
learnt that before we can spiritually serve humanity, we must
first learn to listen to the needs of the individual, family,
and community with every fiber of our being. Healing isn't about
doling out prescriptive medicine, holistic medicine or any other
kinds of medicine. It's about providing mentors for our women
and men and educators for our children. It's about knowing that
each and every being must be helped into wholeness. Only then
can we become whole in ourselves. Only then can we begin to nurture
the hope that we can reach a person in need and provide them with
the education and tools for healing. Every day, I witness miracles
of healing in the Mother Om Mission communities -- healing without
"medicine". A woman who was diagnosed with terminal cancer healed
almost instantly when she found a place of forgiveness within
herself; a twelve-year old boy who had suffered from severe asthma
since birth healed within a month through receiving caring attention
and learning how to breath properly; a dog became tumor-free within
one week after he was adopted by a loving family; an elderly man
with amnesia recovered his memory after three weeks of a wife's
prayers that God created her husband with perfect memory. As we
know, prayer is a powerful medium for healing. I believe that
the prayers of all faiths are necessary if we are to heal body,
mind, spirit -- in other words, the whole person. But I have also
seen how profoundly difficult it is for a hungry, angry, or diseased
person to hear and receive prayer or to pay attention to and abide
by the values set out in the scriptures. For the individual and
community to receive the blessing of prayer and gain the strength
of purpose, we must first restore the physical, emotional and
spiritual human ecology and therefore nature's ecology. For this
purpose, I have developed a comprehensive educational and practice
model (Mother Om Mission) to teach individual and community about
wholesome lifeways that are holistic, prevention-oriented, and
cost effective.
The United
Nations unprecedented Millennium World Peace Summit for prominent
religious and spiritual leaders is a paramount opportunity for
social and spiritual contemplatives to meet and establish a means
of cooperation and communication among ourselves and all peoples.
We live in a pivotal time in history when the implacable doctrines
that fetter the human spirit and boundaries that alienate one
people from another will rise and fall. At this time, I see that
we are all experiencing a pervasive disharmony; a forgetfulness
of our human and sacred nature; a loss of memory, a sort of cosmic
amnesia. Our civilizations are experiencing a progressive state
of disharmony because so many people have turned away from the
harmonious ways of living. Poverty, despair, and disease are evident
in virtually every world country; multi-national companies systematically
attempt to "own" the world's food resources through patents and
genetic manipulation; much of our land around the world has been
corrupted with hazardous chemicals, fertilizers, and pesticides;
our domestic animals have been hurt and compromised by hormones,
antibiotics, and rendered animal protein in their own feed; reproductive
technologies exploit women, their bodies and their fetuses; terrible
conflicts threaten the lives of large numbers of people in urban
areas and inner cities; violence of crime, poverty, drugs and
gangs are everywhere. These profound problems are not isolated
issues but an interrelated body of dysfunction that stems from
a primary source -- the ravaging of nature and impoverishment
of humanity's greater life force.
Fortunately,
the present time offers us opportunities for great transformation.
Each of us on this earth travels an individual path on the human
journey from birth to death. Each of us is also meant to learn
the truths that unite us to our families, our tribe, our human
race, our Mother Nature, and our universe as a whole. Now that
we're in this new century, we are aware of the immutable ties
that connect us to each other in the global village, it is time
for us to begin to reconnect to the source of health, peace and
unity within ourselves and with the essence of nature.
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