"It is a lack of respect for the feminine aspects of manifestation that has lead to the condition of the world today. It has lead to excessive aggression, war, political dominance and economic greed. Because the feminine aspect has not been brought forward, love and the nurturance of living beings has come to be considered of secondary importance. And when the welfare of living beings is not considered of primary importance, what happens? Today so many species of living beings are being eradicated from the world and human beings are suffering in mass numbers without care. In today’s world those who are caretakers, who would nurture and care for others, are not given proper respect, while those who would push forward aggressively for political and economic dominance or for corporate power are given free reign and respected. This is due to the great imbalance, which lies within the human society between the feminine and masculine aspects. Women suppressing their feminine nature and learning to only assert their masculine qualities furthers the difficulty."

"When the qualities of the feminine face of God are again recognized and expressed with momentum, it is then the society will turn around and many of the most troubling problems in the world find resolve. The loving kindness and compassionate care which is expressed naturally by a mother for her children, which emanates from the hearth of the divine Feminine, brings with it the aspects of creation needed to heal today’s world."

"If women return to their power, their motherly qualities, their connectedness with creation, nurturance and preservation, if they accept their own sexuality, their cyclical nature, their womanli­ness, then they will find strength they have not known for ages. The women have adopted this patri­archal view. They are disconnected from themselves, so they think to accept this understanding of their feminine nature will diminish their status. But they are incorrect. It will make them aware of themselves. From this awareness they can become harmonious with their psycho-physical yearnings and they will find a different kind of power. Not one based upon dominance, but one based upon creation and nurturance."

"You see, it is a mistake for women to compete with men. When this is done they forget them­selves and lose sight of their real power. To do the Dharma of another is never as good as to re­alize one's own Dharma and express it to the fullest extent. All are capable of greatness, only the path for those in masculine form and those in feminine form may not be identical due to physical differ­ences and resulting psychological variation."

Shrii Shrii Anandamurti by Anandamaetreyii

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Shakti Samgha

Shakti Samgha is the women’s branch of Ananda Seva.
Its aims given by Shrii Shrii Anandamurti are
To heal the wounded feminine in the society, to help to develop women
emotionally and spiritually and re­store the balance between male and female.

Here are some proposals to meet these aims:

Healing the wounded feminine, helping women to develop emotionally

- creating women’s circles, a safe place for women to express their feelings
- promoting women’s physical and psychic health: counceling, education, diet, yoga, meditation
- setting up homes and shelters for abused women and girls

Women’s spiritual development – Feminine Mysticism

- appreciation of one’s feminine qualities, one’s beauty as a woman, a mother
- harnessing women’s qualities and characteristics in spiritual practices
- cultivating women’s ceremonies, tantric and transitional
- observing women’s cycle in spiritual practices, listening to one’s body
- cultivating motherly qualities, the Archetypal Mother; nurturance of all living beings,
- cultivating devotional aspect; meditation, devotional poetry, songs and music

Restore the balance between male and female

- awaken the social awareness of women: study circles for women’s history and Prout
- helping women become economically independent
- bringing the women’s cycle into the working life
- promoting "women’s culture": art, music, literature, poetry, dance, drama by women