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or cares little to pour her riches.
If she finds herself in men’s
hearts surrounded with selfish-
ness and hatred and jealousy
and malignance and envy and
strife, if treachery and greed
and ingratitude are mixed in
the sacred chalice, if grossness
of passion and unrefined de-
sire degrade devotion, in such Integral Wealth of
hearts the gracious and beau- Mahalakshmi
tiful Goddess will not linger. A Wealth in all domains and all activities,
divine disgust seizes upon her intellectual, psychological, material,
and she withdraws, for she is in feeling and action.
not one who insists or strives; (Spiritual Significance and Explanation
given by the Mother)
or, veiling her face, she waits for Botanical name: Nymphaea
this bitter and poisonous devil’s
stuff to be rejected and disappear before she will found anew her
happy influence. Ascetic bareness and harshness are not pleasing
to her nor the suppression of the heart’s deeper emotions and the
rigid repression of the soul’s and the life’s parts of beauty. For it is
through love and beauty that she lays on men the yoke of the Di-
vine. Life is turned in her supreme creations into a rich work of celes-
tial art and all existence into a poem of sacred delight; the world’s
riches are brought together and concerted for a supreme order and
even the simplest and commonest things are made wonderful by
her intuition of unity and the breath of her spirit. Admitted to the
heart she lifts wisdom to pinnacles of wonder and reveals to it the
mystic secrets of the ecstasy that surpasses all knowledge, meets
devotion with the passionate attraction of the Divine, teaches to
strength and force the rhythm that keeps the might of their acts
harmonious and in measure and casts on perfection the charm that
makes it endure for ever.

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