Today We Honor All the Mamas and Mama Mama

Today we honor all the mamas and mama mama with some poetry and a recording of the Sri Lalita Sahasranama (1000 Names of Divine Mother). May you and all the Mothers in your life be blessed!

We have a beautiful 

mother
Her hills
are buffaloes
Her buffaloes
hills.

We have a beautiful
mother
Her oceans
are wombs
Her wombs
oceans.

We have a beautiful
mother
Her teeth
the white stones
at the edge
of the water
the summer
grasses
her plentiful
hair.

We have a beautiful
mother
Her green lap
immense
Her brown embrace
eternal
Her blue body
everything we know.

--Alice Walker.

 

Shri Maha Lakshmi Ashtakam Stotram

It is said that anyone who recites the Mahalakshmiashtakam with sincerity and devotion will be rewarded with all material and spiritual bliss. By reciting it once during the day, all your sins will be destroyed; two times during the day, and it'll make you wealthy, and if it is recited a third time, there will be success in eliminating trials and overwhelming challenges, no matter how powerful they are. Sing and the Goddess blesses!

Here is another neat video we found on Youtube that also has translations and more information about Lakshmi herself: