Mother, appealed to Her for Her grace in spite of all his shortcomings, on the ground that 'a perverse son there can be, but never a bad mother.' As a matter of fact a weak child is specially the pet of the mother, eliciting from her even a differential treatment denied to those who are meritorious and strong enough to stand on their own feet.
In grasping the nature of the Deity, anthropomorphism rises to its noblest achievement when it helps us discover that this unique feature of human psychology is a clue to the understanding of the Supreme Being as the Redeemer (Anugraha Sakti). The merits and demerits, the wisdom and ignorance, the strength and weakness of the little self-conscious individual ego (Jiva) loses all their quantitative or even qualitative significance before the Infinite Power and Excellence of the Supreme Divine. A grain of sand and a hillock both become equally small in the unfathomed depths of the mighty Pacific Ocean in spite of the differences that the human scale of observation finds in them. The Jiva (the individual spiritual seeker) needs have only one excellence, and that is to recognise that, like a mother, God as Redeemer is all love, before the blazing splendour of which all considerations of merit and demerit become insubstantial and irrelevant, provided the devotee recognises in Him his eternal Mother and puts himself entirely and unconditionally under the mercy and protection of that Mother love. It is this truth that is revealed in the Bhgavad Gita verse: 'I am equal to all, none being specially inimical or dear to Me. But He who surrenders with all devotion and depends on Me