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more than any other the heart of the universal Mother. For her
compassion is endless and inexhaustible; all are to her eyes her
children and portions of the One, even the Asura and Rakshasa
and Pisacha and those that are revolted and hostile. Even her
rejections are only a postponement, even her punishments are a
grace. But her compassion does not blind her wisdom or turn her
action from the course decreed; for the Truth of things is her one
concern, knowledge her centre of power and to build our soul
and our nature into the divine Truth her mission and her labour.
CWSA 32: 18-19 Sri Aurobindo

Laying down the world
Q: Maheshwari lays down the large lines of the world-forc-
es...." What does this mean: "the large lines of the world-
forces"?

It means that she makes the plan of what the world ought
to be. So she lays down the large lines of the plan, of what the
world should be, of the universe. She has a vision of the whole, a
global creation; instead of seeing the details she sees the totality
of things, she lays down the large lines of the plan, and what the
creation should be like, towards what it ought to advance, and
then what the results will be. She has a universal vision, she is
less concerned with the details than with the whole.
CWM 6: 282-83 The Mother

All creation has the two sides, the formed and the formless;
the Gods too are formless and yet have forms, but a Godhead
can take many forms, here Maheshwari, there Pallas Athene.
Maheshwari herself has many forms in her lesser manifesta-
tions, Durga, Uma, Parvati, Chandi etc. The Gods are not limited
to human forms — man also has not always seen them in human
forms only. Sri Aurobindo, CWSA 28: 467

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