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The Mother’s Fourfold Action

Yesterday night I saw Maheshwari above my head, Mahakali in
my vital being and Mahalakshmi seated in my mind and heart.
Each one radiated a different light from her body. Then I saw a
few subtle powers descending into my being.

Maheshwari's natural place is in the higher consciousness
above mind, for she is the wideness and largeness and wisdom
of the Divine. Mahakali acts most naturally through the higher
vital which is the instrument of force and power. Mahalakshmi
acts through the heart — in your case at present she is acting
through the mind also, though that is less usual — ordinarily it
is Mahasaraswati.
CWSA 32: 66

... she is Mahasaraswati, the goddess of divine skill and of
the works of the Spirit, and hers is the Yoga that is skill in works,
yogaU karmasu kauQalam, and the utilities of divine knowledge
and the self-application of the spirit to life and the happiness of
its harmonies. And in all her powers and forms she carries with
her the supreme sense of the masteries of the eternal Ishwari,
a rapid and divine capacity for all kinds of action that may
be demanded from the instrument, oneness, a participating
sympathy, a free identity, with all energies in all beings and
therefore a spontaneous and fruitful harmony with all the di-
vine will in the universe. The intimate feeling of her presence
and her powers and the satisfied assent of all our being to her
workings in and around it is the last perfection of faith in the
Shakti.
CWSA 24: 781 Sri Aurobindo

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