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For Sri Aurobindo, the important thing was always the Mother.
As he explained it, the Mother has several aspects, and certain as-
pects are still unmanifest. So if he has represented the Mother by
Kali in particular, I believe it’s in relation to all those gods. Because,
as he wrote in The Mother, the aspects to be manifested depend
upon the time, the need, the thing to be done. And he always said
that unless one understands and profoundly feels the aspect of
Kali, one can never really participate in the Work in the world – he
felt that a sort of timid weakness makes people recoil before this
terrible aspect.
(The Mother, Conversation with a disciple, Feb-11, 1961)

Kali and World war
Since World War II, I have been keeping Kali quiet, but she
is restless! Times are critical, anything may happen. If people will
only give up their ego!
(The Mother, Conversation with a disciple, 28-Jan-1964)

God as destroyer
….sanatanam purusam puranam, this is he who for ever creates,
for Brahma the Creator is one of the Godheads seen in his body,
he who keeps the world always in existence, for he is the guardian
of the eternal laws, but who is always too destroying in order that
he may new-create, who is Time, who is Death, who is Rudra the
Dancer of the calm and awful dance, who is Kali with her garland
of skulls trampling naked in battle and flecked with the blood of
the slaughtered Titans, who is the cyclone and the fire and the
earthquake and pain and famine and revolution and ruin and the
swallowing ocean.
(CWSA 19:380-381) Sri Aurobindo

The weakness of the human heart wants only fair and comfort-
ing truths or in their absence pleasant fables; it will not have the

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