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.

 

 

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