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and swiftness to the battle and the victory and the laughter, the
attahasya, that makes light of defeat and death and the powers of
the ignorance: she is Mahalakshmi, the goddess of the supreme
love and delight, and her gifts are the spirit’s grace and the charm
and beauty of the Ananda and protection and every divine and
human blessing: she is Mahasaraswati, the goddess of divine skill
and of the works of the Spirit, and hers is the Yoga that is skill in
works, yogah karmasu kausalam, and the utilities of divine knowl-
edge and the self-application of the spirit to life and the happiness
of its harmonies.
(CWSA 23-24:780-781) – Sri Aurobindo

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 obscu-
rity, mental error and perversion; in the vital it clears out
all perilous stuff and where it is there is a pure and divine
happiness and gladness.

(CWSA 29:490) Sri Aurobindo

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