THE COSMIC MOTHER - One Aspect of God by Paramhansa Yogananda
(First Edition,1945 - The Original and Unaltered)

The Mother of the Universe, JAGADAMBA, with her gift bearing hands-one of the many forms under which the feminine aspect of God is worshiped in India.

I see that mother aspect in every woman. There is nothing equal to it-that pure unconditional sympathy of woman toward man. If a man will give that respect to every woman he meets, he will soon begin to see something in woman which he has never seen before. But those who look on woman as the object of lust encourage that same evil within themselves. Woman was given that motherly instinct to save man from the pitfalls of evil. That is the purpose of woman. She was not created for lust.

"Mother, I give Thee my soul-call.
Thou canst not remain hidden any¬more.
Come out of the silent...