Selection from "The Mother" By Sri Auribindo (I) (http://www.searchforlight.org)

[Guest guest]

Maheshwari

Imperial Maheshwari is seated in the wideness above the thinking mind and

will and sublimates and greatens them into wisdom and largeness or floods

with a splendour beyond them.

For she is the mighty and wise One who opens us to supramental infinities

and the cosmic vastness, to the grandeur of the supreme Light, to a

treasure-house of miraculous knowledge, to the measureless movement of the

Mother's eternal forces. Tranquil is she and wonderful, great and calm for

ever.

 

Nothing can move her because all wisdom is in her; nothing is hidden from

her that she chooses to know; she comprehends all things and all beings

and their nature and what moves them and the law of the world and its

times and how all was and is and must be. A strength is in her that meets

everything and masters and none can prevail in the end against her vast

intangible wisdom and high tranquil power.

 

Equal, patient, unalterable in her will she deals with men according to

their nature and with things and happenings according to their Force and

truth that is in them.Partiality she has none, but she follows the decrees

of the Supreme and some she raises up and some she casts down or puts away

into the darkness. To the wise she gives a greater and more luminous

wisdom; those that have vision she admits to her counsels; on the hostile

she imposes the consequence of their hostility; the ignorant and foolish

she leads them according to their blindness.

 

In each man she answers and handles the different elements of his nature

according to their need and their urge and the return they call for, puts

on them the required pressure or leaves them to their cherished liberty to

prosper in the ways of the Ignorance and perish.

 

For she is above all, bound by nothing, attached to nothing in the

universe. Yet she has more than any other the heart of the universal

Mother. For her compassion is endless and inexhaustible; all are to her

eyes her children and portions of the One, even the Asura and Rakshasa and

Pisacha and those that are revolted and hostile. Even her rejections are

only a postponement, even her punishments are a grace. But her compassion

does not blind her wisdom or turn her action from the course decreed; for

the Truth of things is her one concern, knowledge her centre of power and

to build our soul and our nature into the divine Truth her mission and her

labour.