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vel; grace and charm and tenderness flow out from her like
light from the sun and wherever she fixes her wonderful gaze
or lets fall the loveliness of her smile, the soul is seized and
made captive and plunged into the depths of an unfathomable
bliss. Magnetic is the touch of her hands and their occult and
delicate influence refines mind and life and body and where she
presses her feet course miraculous streams of an entrancing
Ananda.

III

And yet it is not easy to meet the demand of this enchant-
ing Power or to keep her presence. Harmony and beauty of
the mind and soul, harmony and beauty of the thoughts and
feelings, harmony and beauty in every outward act and move-
ment, harmony and beauty of the life and surroundings, this
is the demand of Mahalakshmi. Where there is affinity to the
rhythms of the secret world-bliss and response to the call of
the All-Beautiful and concord and unity and the glad flow of
many lives turned towards the Divine, in that atmosphere she
consents to abide.

IV

… all that is ugly and mean and base, all that is poor and sor-
did and squalid, all that is brutal and coarse repels her advent.
Where love and beauty are not or are reluctant to be born, she
does not come; where they are mixed and disfigured with bas-
er things, she turns soon to depart or cares little to pour her
riches. If she finds herself in men’s hearts surrounded with self-

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