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by accepting and proceeding through them that we can arrive at
the greater concords of his supreme harmony, the summits and
thrilled vastnesses of his transcendent and his cosmic Ananda.
(CWSA 19:382)

Whatever comes from above can come like that in waves—wheth-
er it is Light or Force or Peace or Ananda. In your case it was the
Force working on the mind in waves. It is true also that when it
was like that, not in currents or as a rain or as a quiet flood, it is
Mahakali’s Force that is working. The first necessity when it is so,
is not to fear.
(CWSA 30:475)

Mahakali can work only when there is a calm inner being and a
resolute will facing without disturbance all the difficulties.
(CWSA 32:67)

Vedic gods and Kali
Be wide in me, O Varuna; be mighty in me, O Indra; O Sun, be
very bright and luminous; O Moon, be full of charm and sweet-
ness. Be fierce and terrible, O Rudra; be impetuous and swift, O
Maruts; be strong and bold, O Aryama; be voluptuous and pleasur-
able, O Bhaga; be tender and kind and loving and passionate, O
Mitra. Be bright and revealing, O Dawn; O Night, be solemn and
pregnant. O Life, be full, ready and buoyant; O Death, lead my
steps from mansion to mansion. Harmonise all these, O Brahman-
aspati. Let me not be subject to these gods, O Kali.
CWSA 12: 429 Sri Aurobindo

Q: Why does Sri Aurobindo give more importance to Kali?

The Mother: It is good and necessary to possess all the divine
qualities that these gods represent and symbolise; that is why Sri

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