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Mahalakshmi Aspect of the Supreme Mother

(Sri Aurobindo speaks of four great Aspects of the Mother, four of
her leading Powers and Personalities, viz. Maheshwari, Mahakali,
Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati. We give his statement on Mahal-
akshmi in the following five pages. -ed.)

I
Wisdom and Force are not the only manifestations of the
supreme Mother; there is a subtler mystery of her nature and
without it Wisdom and Force would be incomplete things
and without it perfection would not be perfect. Above
them is the miracle of eternal beauty, an unseizable secret
of divine harmonies, the compelling magic of an irresist-
ible universal charm and attraction that draws and holds
things and forces and beings together and obliges them
to meet and unite that a hidden Ananda may play from be-
hind the veil and make of them its rhythms and its figures.
This is the power of MAHALAKSHMI and there is no aspect
of the Divine Shakti more attractive to the heart of em-
bodied beings. Maheshwari can appear too calm and great
and distant for the littleness of earthly nature to approach
or contain her, Mahakali too swift and formidable for its
weakness to bear; but all turn with joy and longing to
Mahalakshmi.
II

... she throws the spell of the intoxicating sweetness of the
Divine: to be close to her is a profound happiness and to feel
her within the heart is to make existence a rapture and a mar-

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