ID23576 - Chương : Bà Ðen (Linh Sơn Thánh Mẫu)
dictionaryEN : ENCYCLOPEDIA of CAODAISM - B
Tác Giả : Lê Kim Liên - Từ Chơn
Bà Ðen (Linh Sơn Thánh Mẫu)
Note :
In Tây Ninh, Việt Nam, rises the highest mount in the South of the country called Mount Điện Bà or Mount Bà Đen, so called because there is a temple to worship Bà Đen (Lady Đen).
Bà Đen was officially deified as Linh Sơn Thánh Mẫu by King Gia Long. In late 1953, Mr. Bùi Trung Phẩm made a request for Bà Đen's bronze statue to be temporarily relocated in Báo Ân Từ in Tây Ninh Temple.
His Holiness Hộ Pháp approved and made a comment: "I approved this to return Her favor. When I was imprisoned in a French jail, She came to visit, console and support me."
When His Holiness Hộ Pháp, together with five other dignitaries, was forced into exile in Madagascar by the French government, Linh Sơn Thánh Mẫu frequently communicated with Him by psychography (automatic writing).
She did not say who She was, but simply said Her Master, Thất Nương (the Seventh Female Buddha), told Her to visit His Holiness Hộ Pháp.
However, after the talk, the gemstone in His ring, which was found on Mount Bà Đen by Lễ Sanh Võ văn Đợi, and then offered up to His Holiness Hộ Pháp, flashed several times. Thanks to this signal He knew that Linh Sơn Thánh Mẫu had come.
One of the poems Bà Đen wrote (through automatic writing), which precisely predicted the French government in Việt Nam would be overthrown by the Japanese later, is:
Vietnamese :
Ngày nay làm khám khảo thầy tu.
Quả như oan nghiệt vay rồi trả,
Thì lũ Tây man Nhựt Bổn trừ.
English :
But now it challenges honest people.
If it's true that there are karmic principles ,
Then the Japanese will kill the barbaric French all.
