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There is a higher consciousness above you, not in the body, so
above the head, which we call the higher, spiritual or divine con-
sciousness, or the Mother’s consciousness.
(CWSA 30: 385)

“Is there any relation between the Mother’s descent into the physi-
cal parts and the descent of the forces that are working in me?

Certainly. In a sense, the descent of the higher forces is the
Mother’s own descent — for it is she who comes down in them.
(CWSA 32: 204)

Yoga Shakti
There is a force which accompanies the growth of the new
consciousness and at once grows with it and helps it to come
about and to perfect itself. This force is the Yoga shakti. It is here
asleep and coiled up in all the centres of our inner being (chakras)
and is at the base what is called in the Tantras the Kundalini shakti.
But it is also above us, above our head as the Divine Force — not
there coiled up, involved, asleep, but awake, scient [most knowl-
edgeable], potent, extended and wide; it is there waiting for mani-
festation and to this Force we have to open ourselves — to the
power of the Mother. In the mind it manifests itself as a divine
mind-force or a universal mind-force and it can do everything
that the personal mind cannot do; it is then the Yogic mind force.
When it manifests and works in the vital or physical in the same
way, it is then apparent as a Yogic life-force or a Yogic body-force.
It can awake in all these forms, bursting outwards and upwards,
extending itself into wideness from below; or it can descend and
become there a definite power for things; it can pour downwards
into the body, working, establishing its reign, extending into wide-
ness from above, link the lowest in us with the highest above us,
release the individual into a cosmic universality or into absolute-
ness and transcendence.
(CWSA 30: 422)

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