Living in a Mother’s Grace – A Mother’s Day Ode to India

Living in a Mother’s Grace – A Mother’s Day Ode to India

By Priyanka Gupta

The other day, my social media team was going around the office, asking everyone: What’s your favorite thing about India?
They never reached me for my answer – but it got me thinking.

If they had, I would’ve said: India is the land of dharma – of righteousness. It’s the land of love. We are a people raised in deep gratitude – taught to love anything that gives, nurtures, and protects – like a mother.

From childhood, we’re taught to bow our heads to Dharti Ma, Tulsi Ma, Ganga Ma, Gau Mata – because in everything that gives selflessly, we are told to see our mother. This is why Indians worship the sacred cow. 

And truly, is there a culture in the world that loves its mothers the way we do?
From Krishna’s playful bond with Yashoda Ma, to Lord Ram honoring even Kekai Ma with reverence, from Hanuman ji’s tears for Seeta Ma, to the stories of saints and sages (like my Guru Paramahansa Yogananda) broken by the loss of their mothers – and later, transformed by the divine mother’s grace – we are, at our core, a civilisation that bows before the feminine, the nurturing, the life-giving.

We are taught not just to love our mothers – but to see the mother in every woman, every giver, every drop of abundance.

This Mother’s Day, while we celebrate the beautiful women who raised us – let us also raise a toast to all the mothers that bless us every day:
To the soil beneath our feet.
To the food on our plates.
To the water that nourishes.
To the stranger who shows kindness.
To the teacher who guides.
To the land that raised us with this wisdom.

May we always walk in awareness of the many mothers who hold us.
And may we always live – gratefully, joyfully – in a mother’s grace.