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Asuras, she strikes also at everything that has to be got rid of
or destroyed, at the obstacles to the sadhana etc. I may say that
the Mother never uses the Mahakali power in your case nor the
Mahakali pressure.
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About the Mother's Mahakali aspect it is said in The Mother:
"When she is allowed to intervene in her strength, then in one mo-
ment are broken like things without consistence the obstacles that
immobilise or the enemies that assail the seeker" [p. 44]. How is
this intervention of the Mahakali force felt?

It is felt as if something swift, sudden, decisive and imperative.
When it intervenes, it has a kind of divine or supramental sanction
behind it and is like a fiat against which there is no appeal. What
is done cannot be reversed or undone. The adverse forces may try,
may even touch or invade, but they retire baffled and it is seen as
soon as they withdraw that the past ground has remained intact—
it is felt even in the attack. Also the difficulties that were strong
before touched by this fiat lose their power, their verisimilitude
destroyed or are weak shadows that come only to flicker and fade
away. I say "allowed", because this supreme action of Mahakali is
comparatively rare, the action of the other Powers or a partial ac-
tion of Mahakali is more common.
CWSA 35: 114-16

Mahakali acts most naturally through the higher vital which is
the instrument of force and power.
(CWSA 32:66) Sri Aurobindo

Mahakali and the blows of life
Which is swifter for transformation: Divine Love or Mahakali's
force?

Kali's force is necessary only for those who are not yet open to

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