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Krishna & Kali
with
the Mother & Sri Aurobindo

(The day before ‘Kali Puja,’ the ritual festival devoted
each year in India to the goddess Kali, the warrior aspect
of the universal Mother)

She has already been here for two days and ... Oh, yesterday
especially, she was so ... in such a mood! – like a warrior. I said to
her, ‘But why not change them through ... through an excess of
love?’
So then she answered (I remember how she put it), ‘First a
good punch in the chest (she didn’t say ‘in the nose’!), a good
punch in the chest, and then when they’re down, gasping for air,
they’re ready.’
That’s one opinion!
(The Mother: Conversation with a disciple, 19 October 1960)

My blessings are very dangerous. They cannot be for this one or
for that one or against this person or against that thing. It is for...
or, well, I will put it in a mystic way:
It is for the Will of the Lord to be done, with full force and
power. So it is not necessary that there should always be a suc-
cess. There might be a failure also, if such is the Will of the Lord.
And the Will is for the progress, I mean the inner progress. So
whatever will happen will be for the best.
(CWM:13:60-61) The Mother

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