10 points on Mother (Goddess/Devi)

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Few selected lines from The Mother - Swami Aurobindo

 

1. The four Powers of the Mother - Maheshwai, Mahakali,Mahalakshmi,Mahasaraswati

are four of her

outstanding Personalities, portions and embodiments of her

divinity through whom she acts on her creatures,orders

and harmonises her creations in the worlds and directs working out of her

thousand forces.

 

 

2.For the Mother is one but she comes before us with differing aspects; many are

her power and personalities, many her

emanations and Vibhutis that do her work in the universe.

 

3.The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine

Conscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yet many-sided

that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest mind and for the

freest and most vast intelligence.

 

4.The Mother is the consciousness and force of the

Supreme and far above all she creates. But something of her ways can

be seen and felt through her embodiments and the more

seizable because more defined and limited temperament and action of the goddess

forms in whom she consents to be manifest to her creatures.

 

5. She stands above the worlds and links the creation to the ever unmanifest

mystery of the Supreme. -Universal, the cosmic Mahashakti, she creates all these

beings and contains and enters, supports and conducts all these million

processes and forces. -

Individual, she embodies the power of these two vaster

ways of her existence, makes them living and near to us and

mediates between human personality and the divine Nature.

 

6.The one original transcendent Shakti, the Mother stands above all the worlds

and bears in her eternal consciousness the Supreme Divine. Alone, she harbours

the absolute Power and the ineffable Presence; containing or calling the Truths

that have to be manifested, she brings them down from the Mystery in which they

were

hidden into the light of her infinite consciousness and gives them a

form of force in her omnipotent power and her boundless life and a body in the

universe.

 

7.All is her play with the Supreme; all is her manifestation of the mysteries of

the Eternal, the miracles of the Infinite. All is she, for all are parcel and

portion of the divine Conscious-Force.

Nothing can be here or elsewhere but what she decides and the Supreme sanctions;

nothing can take shape except what she moved by the Supreme perceives and forms

after casting into seed in

her creating Ananda.

 

8.That which we call Nature or Prakriti is only her most outward executive

aspect; she marshals and arranges the harmony of her forces and processes,

impels the operations of Nature and moves among them secret or manifest in all

that can be seen or experienced or put into motion of life. Each of the worlds

is nothing but one play of the Mahashakti of that system of worlds or universe,

who

is there as the cosmic Soul and Personality of the transcendent Mother. Each is

something that she has in her vision, gathered into

her heart of beauty and power and created in her Ananda.

 

9. The Mother as the Mahashakti of this triple world of the Ignorance stands in

an intermediate plane between the

supramental Light, the Truth life, the Truth creation which has to be brought

down here and this mounting and descending hierarchy of planes of consciousness

that like a double ladder lapse into the nescience of Matter and climb back

again through the flowering of life and soul and mind into the infinity of the

Spirit.

 

Determining all that shall be done in the universe and

in the terrestrial evolution by what she sees and feels and

pours from her, she stands there above the Gods and all her Powers and

Personalities are put in front of her for the action and she sends down

emanations of them into these lower worlds to intervene, to govern, to battle

and conquer, to lead and turn their cycles, to direct the total and individual

lines of their forces.

These Emanations are the various divine forms and

personalities through which men have worshipped her under different

names throughout the ages.

But also she prepares and shapes through these Powers and their emanations the

minds and bodies of her Vibhuthis, even

as she prepares and shapes minds and bodies for the Vibhuthis

of the Ishwara, that she may manifest in the physical world

and in the disguise of the human consciousness some ray of her

power and quality and presence. All the scenes of the earth play have been like

a drama arranged and planned and staged by her with the cosmic Gods for her

assistants and herself as a veiled actor.

 

10.

But personally too she has stooped to descend here

into the darkness that she may lead it to the Light, into the Falsehood and

Error that she may convert it to the Truth, into this Death that she may turn it

to godlike Life, into this world-pain and its obstinate sorrow and suffering

that she may end it in the transforming ecstasy of her sublime Ananda.

 

In her deep and greater love for her children she has consented to

put on herself the cloak of this obscurity,condescended to bear the

attacks and torturing influences of the powers of Darkness and the

Falsehood, borne to pass through the portals of the birth that is a

death, taken upon herself the pangs and sorrows and sufferings of creation,

since it seemed that thus alone could it be lifted to the

Light and Joy and Truth and eternal Life. This is the great sacrifice of the

Purusha, but much more deeply the holocaust of Prakriti, the sacrifice of the

Divine Mother.