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Qualities of Mahakali

Height and swiftness
What is meant by "height" in the phrase "not wideness but height" ?

It is very much as we speak of high ideas, high feelings, high as-
pirations. In that sense Mahakali 's movement is a high, swift ac-
tion, very effective at the point touched, but not wide, patient,
comprehensive like Maheshwari's.

Presence of the Force
This morning, when I said that I thought that the Mother was put-
ting pressure on me, you wrote that the word "pressure" was "entirely
wrong". If that is so, what is the sense of the word "pressure" in this
passage from The Mother: "[Maheshwari] puts on them the required
pressure" [p. 41]? You wrote also, in regard to Mahakali, of "the vehe-
mence of her pressure" [p. 44].

I was speaking of your case only — it was not my intention to
say that the Mother never uses pressure. But pressure also can be
of various kinds. There is the pressure of the Force when it is enter-
ing the mind or vital or body — a pressure to go faster, a pressure
to build or form, a pressure to break and many more. In your case
if there is any pressure it is that of help or support or removal of
an attack, but it does not seem to me that that can properly be
called pressure.

Strike and succour
In the same book you say of Mahakali , "her hands are out-
stretched to strike and to succour" [p. 44]. What do you mean
here by "strike"?

It expresses her general action in the world. She strikes at the

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