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

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MahaKali

Mahakali is of another nature.

 

Not of wideness but of height, not wisdom but force and strength are her

peculiar power. There is in her a overwhelming intensity, a mighty passion

of force to achieve, a divine violence rushing to shatter every limit and

obstacle.

 

All her divinity leaps out in a splendour of tempestuous action; she is

therefore swiftness, for the immediately effective process, the rapid and

direct stroke, the frontal assault that carries everything, before it.

 

Terrible is her face to the Asura, dangerous and ruthless her mood against

the haters of the Divine; for she is the Warrior of the Worlds who never

shrinks from the battle. Intolerant of imperfection, she deals roughly

with all in man that is unwilling and she is severe to all that is

obstinately ignorant and obscure; her wrath is immediate and dire against

treachery and falsehood and malignity, ill-will is smitten at once by her

scourage.

 

Indifference, negligence and sloth in the divine work she cannot bear and

she smites awake at once with sharp pain, if need be, the untimely

slumberer and the loiterer. The impulses that are swift and straight and

frank, the movements that are unreserved and absolute, the aspiration that

mounts in flame are the motion of Mahakali.

 

Her spirit is tameless, her vision and will are high and far-reaching like

the flight of an eagle, her feet are rapid on the upward way and her hands

are outstretched to strike and to succour.

 

For she too is the Mother and her love is as intense as her wrath and she

has a deep and passionate kindness. When she is allowed to intervene in

her strength , then in one moment are broken like things without

consistence the obstacles that immobilise or the enemies that assail the

seeker.

 

If her anger is dreadful to the hostile and the vehemence of her pressure

painful to the weak and timid, she is loved and worshipped by the great,

the strong and the noble; for they feel that her blows beat what is

rebellious in their material into strength and perfect truth, hammer

straight what is wry and perverse and expel what is impure or defective.

 

But for her what is done in a day might have taken centuries; without her

Ananda might be wide and grave or soft and sweet and beautiful but would

lose the flaming joy of its most absolute intensities. To knowledge she

gives a conquering might, brings to beauty and harmony a high and mounting

movement and imparts to the slow and difficult labour after perfection an

impetus that multiplies the power and shortens the long way.

 

Nothing can satisfy her that falls short of the supreme ecstasies, the

highest heights, the noblest aims, the largest vistas. Therefore with her

is the victorious force of the Divine and it is by grace of her fire and

passion and speed if he great achievement can be done now than hereafter.

 

Selection from " The Mother" By Sri Aurobindo