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Sri Aurobindo's Light
Krishna is not the supramental light. The descent of Krishna
would mean the descent of the Overmind Godhead preparing,
though not itself actually bringing, the descent of Supermind and
Ananda. Krishna is the Anandamaya, he supports the evolution
through the Overmind leading it towards his Ananda.
(CWSA 28:499)

We speak here also of Krishna’s light — Krishna’s light in the mind,
Krishna’s light in the vital; but it is a special light — in the mind it
brings clarity, freedom from obscurity, mental error and perver-
sion; in the vital it clears out all perilous stuff and where it is there
is a pure and divine happiness and gladness.
(CWSA 28:490) Sri Aurobindo

Stories about Images of Kali
Are the stories told about the image of Mahakali true?

What stories? Hundreds of stories are told, my child. Which sto-
ries are you speaking of? Which Mahakali ? The images made of
her, the statues? This is the human way of seeing things. She is
not like that.
I believe I have already told you once that there are the origi-
nal beings in their higher reality and these are of a particular kind;
then, as they manifest in more and more material regions, nearer
and nearer the earth, they assume different forms and also multi-
ply in a strange way. If you like, the beings Sri Aurobindo speaks
of here belong to regions quite close to the Supermind, they are
still in quite a clear and conscious contact with the supramental
origin. These beings manifest also in what Sri Aurobindo calls the
Overmind and there the form becomes as it were more marked, a
little more precise and at the same time reduced in power and ca-
pacity. Then, from the Overmind they come down into the human
mind, the terrestrial mind and there... Take for instance this poor

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