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

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MahaSaraswati

 

 

 

 

 

 

MahaSaraswati

Mahasaraswati is the Mother's Power of Work and her spirit of perfection

and order. The youngest of the Four, she is the most skillful in executive

faculty and the nearest to physical Nature.

 

Maheswari lays down the large lines of the world-forces, Mahakali drives

their energy and impetus, Mahalakshmi discovers their rhythms and

measures, but Mahasaraswati presides over their detail of organization and

execution, relation of parts and effective combination of forces and

unfailing exactitude of result and fulfilment.

 

The science and craft and technique of things are Mahasaraswati's

province. Always she holds in her nature and can give to those whom she

has chosen the intimate and precise knowledge, the subtlety and patience,

the accuracy of intuitive mind and conscious hand and discerning eye of

the perfect worker.

 

This Power is the strong, the tireless, the careful and efficient builder,

organiser, administrator, technician, artisan and classifier of the

worlds. When she takes up the transformation and new building of the

nature, her action is laborious and minute and often seems to our

impatience slow and interminable, but it is persistent, integral and

flawless.

 

For the will in her works is scrupulous, unsleeping, indefatigable;

leaning over us she notes and touches every little detail, finds out every

minute defect, gap, twist or incompleteness, considers and weighs

accurately all that has been done and all that remains still to be done

and all that remains still to be done hereafter. bNothing is too small or

apparently trivial for her attention; nothing however impalpable or

disguised or latent can escape her.

 

Moulding and remoulding she labours each part till it has attained its

true form, is put in its exact place in the whole and fulfils its precise

purpose. In her constant and diligent arrangement and rearrangement of

things her eye is on all needs at once and the way to meet them and her

intuition knows what is to be chosen and what rejected and successfully

determines the right instrument, the right time, the right conditions and

the right process.

 

Carelessness and negligence and indolence she abhors; all scamped and

hasty and shuffling work, all clumsiness and 'à peu près' and misfire, all

false adaptation and misuse of instruments and faculties and leaving of

things undone or half done is offensive and foreign to her temper. When

her work is finished, nothing has been forgotten, no part has been

misplaced or omitted or left in a faulty condition; all is solid,

accurate, complete, admirable.

 

Nothing short of a perfect perfection satisfies her and she is ready to

face an eternity of toil if that is needed for the fullness of her

creation. Therefore of all the Mother's powers she is the most

long-suffering with man and his thousand imperfections.

 

Kind, smiling, close and helpful, not easily turned away or discouraged,

insistent even after repeated failure, her hand sustains our every step on

condition that we are single in our will and straightforward and sincere;

for a double mind she will not tolerate and her revealing irony is

merciless to drama and histrionics and self-deceit and pretence.

 

A mother to our wants, a friend in our difficulties, a persistent and

tranquil counsellor and mentor, chasing away with her radiant smile the

clouds of gloom and fretfulness and depression, reminding always of the

ever-present help, pointing to the eternal sunshine, she is firm, quiet

and persevering in the deep and continuous urge that drives is towards the

integrality of the higher nature. All the work of the other Powers leans

on her for its completeness; for she assures the material foundation,

elaborates the stuff of detail and erects and rivets the armour of the

structure.