... Personalities and Appearances of the Mother The Mother with Letters on the Mother Mahakali and Kali What is the essential difference between the Mahakali form as described in the Chandi and the Shyama form? These—Kali, Shyama, etc.—are ordinary forms seen through the vital; the real Mahakali form whose origin is in the Overmind is not black or dark... Sometimes I see the Mother in the form of Mahakali or as the Transcendent and Universal Mother. But I see her in a white colour. I know that Kali is called Shyama because her colour is black, but I saw white. Why is this? Mahakali and Kali are not the same, Kali is a lesser form. Mahakali in the higher planes appears usually with the golden colour. 13 March 1934 ...
... instance to a particular way of representing Shiva or Kali and I refuse to have any other. But the artist has nothing to do with my prejudices. He has to represent the essential truth of Shiva or Kali, that which makes their Shivahood or Kalihood, and he is under no obligation to copy the vision of others. If he has seen another vision of Shiva or Kali, it is that vision to which he must be faithful. The... an abiding place in the thought and imagination of the race, depends on its power to awake the deeper vision in the race. All that we can demand is that it shall be a real God, a real Shiva, a real Kali, and not a freak of his imagination or an outcome of some passing saṁskāra of his education or artistic upbringing. He must go to the fountainhead of knowledge within himself or his claim to freedom ...
... Sarvam Anantam Jnanam Anandam Brahma. 3) Karma Chatusthaya— Krishna, Kali, Karma, Kama 4) Shanti Chatusthaya— Samata, Shanti, Sukha, Hasya (Atmaprasada) 5) Shakti Chatusthaya— Virya, Shakti, Chandibhava, Sraddha. 6) Vijnana Chatusthaya— Jnana, Trikaladrishti, Ashtasiddhi ...
... कवे विलासिन् शृणु मातृवाक्यं कालीं करालीं भज पुत्र चण्डीम्। द्रष्टासि वै भारतमातरं तां घ्नतीमरातीन् भृशमाजिमध्ये ॥३०॥ O poet and sensualist, hear the word of the Mother: adore Kali the Terrible, my son, the fierce Chandi. Verily you shall see her, the mother of the Bharatas, striking down her foes mightily in the thick of the fight. सनातनान्याह्वय भारतानां कुलानि युद्धाय जयोऽस्तु मा भैः। भो ... stars and suns, O infinite in energy. आजौ यदा नृत्यसि चण्डि घोरे शृगालघुष्टे दधति त्रिशूलम्। स्पर्शेन कम्पन्त इवायुधस्य महान्ति तारानियुतानि नाके ॥५६॥ When, wielding the trident, thou dancest, O Chandi, on the gruesome battlefield noisy with jackals, the vast multitudes of stars seem to tremble in the firmament at the touch of thy weapon. दयार्द्रचित्ता रुदितेन पुंसां हंसि प्रजापीडकमस्तकेषु। ... चण्डीं तिष्ठन् प्रभामण्डलमूर्तिमग्रे ॥७१॥ I see currents of flame spewing from the mouth of the deadly weapon; but for all his inso-lence, and though he lies before her, he cannot reach the form of Chandi wrapped in an aura of splendour. प्रक्षिप्तखड्गस्तु विषाणमध्ये विष्टम्भयत्यन्तिमचेष्टितं तत्। समाप्तमेतत्तव तर्कयामि महाव्रतं देवि विशालवीर्ये ॥७२॥ A sword thrust between his horns paralyses ...
... 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 manifestations, Durga, Uma, Parvati, Chandi etc. The Gods are not limited to human forms—man also has not always seen them in human forms only. The Gods and the Overmind The natives of the Overmind are Gods. Naturally the Gods rule the... the Mother and Energy of the worlds. All powers are hers. Sometimes Devi-power may mean the power of the universal World-Force; but this is only one side of the Shakti. Mahakali and Kali are not the same, Kali is a lesser form. Mahakali in the higher planes appears usually with the golden colour. Ganesh is the Power that removes obstacles by the force of Knowledge—Kartikeya represents victory ...
... asraddha of the Adesha, the latter the result of insufficient prakasha, the former of the imperfect conquest of the physical being by the vijnanam. The manifestation of the Kalibhava, harmonising the bala, raudra (karali) & shiva Kali, has perfected the second chatusthaya in all but intensity. The remnants of general asraddha in God & swashakti are disappearing and the only province of asraddha is the... yet been no perfect satisfaction even to the Aniruddha element. Lipi (on Sultan's back, chitra formed by the hairs). Satisfaction to Brihaspati, not yet to the other deities. Satisfaction to Bala (due). N.B. Bala is the Titanic force from the Mahat which must eventually conquer & replace Rudra, though conquered by him in the Buddha, because descending into the Buddha he becomes a Daitya disturbing evolution... vijnanam unhampered, the clearing of the sraddha, increase of the dasyam, the steady progress of the arogyam and the rapid advance of the Ananda. Utthapana & bhautasiddhi have been strongly denied. The Kalibhava is gaining in completeness, firmness and permanence. 27 January 1912 Progress, unclouded resumed this morning. The results of the last few days, so far as yet ascertained, may now be summed ...
... memories to disappear. Sleep was reduced to four hours in the night. The promise was given during the day to confine it henceforth to a six hours maximum to be reduced successively to 4, 2½ and nil. The Kalibhava was developed in the terms of the second chatusthaya, Mahakali, Mahasaraswati with a previous return to Maheshwari & Mahakali. 17 July 1912 Programme 1) Renewal of the force of the siddhi... Ananda in the outside world are now perfectly established, but relics of asamata remain and momentary tendencies of mental revolt touch the prana & chitta & sometimes the buddhi, ॠत्वा विलीयन्ते. Kalibhava is strong, but has not taken possession of the speech where the old sanskar is powerful. Krishna seems sometimes to remove himself and look out from behind a veil. This presence & absence in myself... which it is intended only to colour without altering its character, afterwards it tended to bring the MahalaxmiMahasaraswati combinations, but eventually it has subordinated itself to the proper Chandibhava. The Mahakali bhava tends to be Page 101 weakened, but no longer blotted out by the old sanskaras in conversation & after sleep; but it is no longer replaced by MaheshwariMahasaraswati ...
... being eliminated. The first is practically complete in its armour of passive samata, almost complete in the active. The second is feebly besieged at times, but the completion of the dasya and the chandibhava is evident. The latter is only deficient in hasya. Continuity of ahaituka kamananda, when not suspended by exclusive vismarana, is confirmed. Sahaituka has been for long depressed and only occasional... surface of the physical mentality, they are at once stopped and either disappear or are transformed. The second chatusthaya is now complete in all its circumstances with the one fault that the Kali element in the Devibhava, which is constant, is not steady; the ordinary condition is that of the Mahasaraswati with a strong Mahaluxmi colouring and submerged Maheshwari basis. This is full of shama ...
... 4 Literally, 'the One with a severed head'. Page 240 everything then be offered to Thee in sacrifice." 1 We find the very same idea occurring in the following verse of Chandi Saptashati: "Mother Divine, this world has been created by Thee, is being maintained by Thee, but it is Thou again who art devouring it all the time." 2 Vadarayan Vyasa's Brahmasūtram suggests... dhāryate jāyamānam. Viśantu tvām-āhutayaśca sarvāḥ prajāḥ." (Maitri Upanishad, VI.9) 2 "Tvayaiva dhāryate viśvaṁ tvayaitat sṛjyate jagat. Tvayaitat pālyate devi tvamatsyante ca sarvadā." (Chandi, 53) 3 sthityadanābhyāñca. (Brahmasūtram, I.3.7) Also see: Purushottamananda Avadhuta, Brahmasutra, pp. 144-46. 4 "The Spirit pervades the universe as the Virat Purusha... the end we may dare exclaim with Ramprasad the famous saint of Bengal: "This time I shall devour Thee utterly, Mother Kali: Thou must devour me first, or I myself shall eat Thee up; One or the other it must be. To show to the world that Ramprasad is Kali's rightful son, Come what may, I shall eat Thee up—Thee and Thy retinue— Or lose my life attempting it." 1 It is the same ...
... story of a head which comes out of the sand, buried up to the neck… It is a form of Kali—there are countless forms of Kali. Each believer has his image, has his particular relation with a certain Kali. Sometimes it is their own Kali: there are family Kalis—lots of family Kalis. I knew families that had very dangerous Kalis. If what they wanted was not done, some misfortune always befell the family. There... reached the Kali temple in Virampattinam and entered She understood that the dark figure She had met was in fact the deity of this temple. One day someone asked the Mother: “What plane does this Kali belong to?” The Mother answered: “The most material vital plane.” Then someone else asked: “Why is she called Kali?” The Mother continued: I don’t know. It is one of the Kalis—I have a vague... was a very strong formation. I suppose it was the family who were still more responsible than their Kali. And I knew people who when the misfortune came, a real misfortune in the family… someone’s death—took the image of Kali and went and threw it into the Ganges. Then someone enquired: “This Kali has no connection with Mahakali, has she?” The Mother’s answer: No. She has a very close connection ...
... relations, mental, sentimental, restricted, with the boy Krishna. Page 701 The Bhaya Anandamaya once promised is now also manifesting and takes the form of the same relation, Bala-Kali at play with the Bala-Krishna. All this can now be reestablished in the cadre of the satyam ritam brihat. Therefore the Affirmations are taking their greater, deeper & fuller form.—to begin with... eternal Bala-Kishora-bhava & the Kautuka-krida. The difficulty Page 700 that remains is on the side of the Jiva in the grave importance it attaches still to satya, mangala & siddhi. This importance is real, as it is necessary to develop the Vyaya-lakshmi. But it will develop more rapidly when the samata of the Tapas is effected. At the same time even in the Adhara the Bala-Kishore-bhava... Person who is the Tat. The normalisation of the perception of Many in One is beginning. Here the ego in the mind of others is the obstacle The Master of the Yoga remanifests as well as the Kalibhava— Lipi 1) aspire 2) [ no notation ] Swapna-Samadhi. Struggle at night to develop entire & coherent lipi in deep samadhi. The scenes, rupas etc remain as before. There is an intermittent ...
... Maheshwari & assert the violent Asuric Kali bhava. For this reason the combination MahasaraswatiMaheshwari has been constantly strengthened against this assertion & each time it has thus been strengthened, it has absorbed more & more of the Kalibhava which it denied. Tonight the combination Mahalaxmi-Mahakali was effected & held steady against the Asuric Kali tendency which it then took into itself... Brahman. In the person Kali is organised in the Maheshwari-Mahaluxmi-Mahasaraswati combination, the second element as yet insufficient, but the dominant Mahakali is occasional only, the normal bhava being the contained and dominated Mahakali. This again is due to the gulf that still remains between the Purusha & the Shakti. The Purusha is the dominant Krishna, bala, Balarama-Aniruddha; but the... right continent and the right pratistha. All that has now to be effected is the strengthening of the Kali tejas & virya till it reaches the right intensity without disturbing the other elements of the harmony. The intensification is already proceeding. The result is the divinised Asuro-Rakshasi Kali with the Pisachi, Pramatheswari & Pashavi contained in the Rakshasi element. Mahalaxmi-Mahasaraswati ...
... this period, we went from Calcutta to Berhampore. On entering the Chandi-mandapa (an altar to Mother Chandi) I noticed that in place of Mother Kali's statue photographs of Mother and Sri Aurobindo had been placed. I was furious when I saw this. How was this possible? To keep Mother's and Sri Aurobindo's photo graphs in Mother Kali's place? They may be great yogis, advanced souls, spiritually realised... saurol bala bhanshey ekakini - What a strange song it was, with all kinds of voices, shrill and base, young and old, singing together. The word "bhanshey" used to be sung with such a flourish and with so much "gamak" that we used to laugh a lot. And eagerly we would wait for "bhanshey" to be sung again. Cheyey dekho ma jaugotjaunoni, abola, saurol bala bhanshey... from my sports. Two other boys were with me. Night had almost fallen. We could hear the sound of conches from the surrounding houses. We were coming through a mango-grove. Suddenly I saw a statue of Kali in front of me, holding a glistening sickle in one hand and a garland of human skulls in the other. Her bright red tongue flashing out. Dark, long, luxurious hair. A red glow beneath the eyes and another ...
... another one in which he says, "I did not know whom I loved more. Kali or Krishna..." (I am commenting, not quoting exactly), "...till I realized that to love Kali was to love myself, while to love Krishna was to love myself and someone else too...." 427—I did not know for some time whether I loved Krishna best or Kali; when I loved Kali, it was loving myself, but when I loved Krishna, I loved another... years apart? Nolini seems to say it was at the beginning. Yes, it was at the beginning. At a time when he used to sign his letters "Kali" [around 1912]. Oh, there was a time when he used to sign "Kali".... He always signed his letters "Kali": the letters to Motilal, 2 for instance. Oh, I never saw that, I didn't know. So it was at that time. ( silence ) It was certainly... another, and still it was myself with whom I was in love. Therefore I came to love Krishna better even than Kali. Page 133 What exactly does he mean? I don't understand.... He writes as if he felt identified with Kali more than with Krishna. Yet (and he told me so) there was something of Krishna in him. So I would have liked to know if all those things were written at the same time, ...
... knowledge, a kendra of vision, a kendra of enjoyment. In this kendra Kali receives Page 307 the will of God, thinks it out in the idea, fulfils it in action, watches its fulfilment and sends up the bhoga to God, becoming herself the will, the action, the vision, the bhoga, the knowledge. The two have now to be harmonised, the Kalibhava & the Krishnabhava in the one Brahman. The dissolution of the... destroyed. 22 November 1913 The touches on the second chatusthaya still continue, but have no power or permanence—except in the imperfection of the faith and the consequent quiescence of the Chandibhava—. On the whole, the first chatusthaya is finally secure; the second & in the third jnana & prakamyavyapti are firm in spite of waverings & temporary eclipses, to a less extent the trikaldrishti;... double possibility. Premananda reestablished on a basis of firm finality; only the shadow of the negative bhava, udasinata, affects its completeness, by denying it to men, especially of the strong Kali-type. On objects, children, animals, women etc it is fixed. The source of this denial is the old virakti with the mean & the sordid. This must now disappear. The action of the vijnana in details ...
... forms Page 67 of Kali. Each believer has his image, has his particular relation with a certain Kali. Sometimes it is their own Kali: there are family Kalis—lots of family Kalis. I knew families who had very dangerous Kalis. If what they wanted was not done, always some misfortune befell the family members. There was a very strong formations. I suppose it was the family members who were... Why is she called Kali? I don't know. It is one of the Kalis—I have a vague impression that her head was cut off or that she was buried up to the neck or I don't know what. Something like that. There is a story of a head which comes out of the sand, buried up to the neck. But that, anyone in this country will tell you the story, I don't remember it. It is a form of Kali—there are countless forms... were still more responsible than their Kali. And I knew people who, when the misfortune came, a real misfortune in the family—someone's death—took the image of Kali and went and threw it into the Ganges. This Kali has no connection with Mahakali, has she? No. She has a very close connection with the human mind. I believe these are almost exclusively constructions of the human mind.... But I have ...
... The Mother with Letters on the Mother Kali While praying today I saw the image of Mother Kali. She was black and naked and standing with her foot on the back of Shiva. Why is Kali seen in such a form and on what plane is she seen like this? It is in the vital. It is Kali as a destroying Force—a symbol of the Nature Force in the ignorance surrounded ...
... there. There is one Kali temple and when I looked at the image I saw the living presence there. For the first time I believed in the presence of God. 5.12.1939 Sri Aurobindo The idol of Mahakali, Karnali situated on the northern bank of river Narmada, near Chandod in Gujarat. When Sri Aurobindo visited this shrine in 1906. He realised the living Presence of Kali in the image. The... and invariable union with the divine Will. The Mother, Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): Happiness Once when Sri Aurobindo was on a visit to Chandod he went to one of the temples of Kali on the bank of the Narmada. He went there because of the company. He never had felt attracted to image worship — if anything, till then he was averse to it. Now when he went to the temple he found a... The poem which he wrote later. The Stone Goddess , is reproduced here. "You stand before a temple of Kali beside a sacred river and see what? — a sculpture, a gracious piece of architecture, but in a moment mysteriously, unexpectedly there is instead a Presence, a Power, a Face that looks into yours, an inner sight in you has regarded the World-Mother..." Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I: ...
... name of Kali? What need has one of rituals, if all the three holy hours one utters the name of Kali? The rituals pursue him in vain and find him not. Neither charity nor benevolence nor rites have any room in his consciousness. He has done the sacrifice of the passions at the golden feet of the Divine Mother. Who can know the infinite power of the name, Kali? The God ...
... Superior Beings and Adverse Forces Words of the Mother - III Kali, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi, Mahasaraswati When people speak against you, I feel as if a big flame with many tongues is arising in me and the person in front becomes docile. It must be Kali's force which you evoke. I want to ask you a question concerned with my reaction to the inconsideration... personal aim or in any self-regarding way. 8 October 1950 Of all the aspects of the Mother, Kali most powerfully expresses vibrant and active love, and despite her sometimes terrible aspect, she carries in herself the golden splendour of an all-powerful love. 24 February 1965 Kali rarely acts in the mind. In the higher domains she is a power of love which pushes towards progress... force appears to be there which wants to destroy and which feels it has the power to destroy. Of course I would never think of using it for my own private ends. It is evidently the working of the Kali force that has lit and is directing this fire in you. There is nothing wrong in its action; it is not an anger personal to you but the wrath of a divine power and it must be allowed to act; in fact ...
... pregnant. O Life, be full, ready and buoyant; O Death, lead my steps from mansion to mansion. Harmonise all these, O Brahmanaspati. Let me not be subject to these gods, O Kali. Why does Sri Aurobindo give more importance to Kali? It is good and necessary to possess all the divine qualities that these gods represent and symbolise; that is why Sri Aurobindo invokes them and asks them to take... one who wants union with the Supreme, for one who Page 84 aspires for the supreme Realisation, this cannot be sufficient. This is why at the end he calls upon Kali to give him the power to go beyond them all. For Kali is the most powerful aspect of the universal Mother and her power is greater than that of all the gods in her creation. To unite with her means therefore to become more vast ...
... Aphorism - 428 428—I did not know for some time whether I loved Krishna best or Kali; when I loved Kali, it was loving myself, but when I loved Krishna, I loved another, and still it was myself with whom I was in love. Therefore I came to love Krishna better even than Kali. Sri Aurobindo always had his own way of saying things, always original and always unexpected. ...
... annamaya interference, only hampered in its speed. Fluency has been acquired, rapidity prepared and declared due at 8.[0]2 a.m. on the morrow.... ______________________________ Shakti, Chandibhava, Sraddha—pertaining to Shakti Chatushthaya; Jnana, Trikaladrishti, Ashtasiddhi, Samadhi—pertaining to Vijnana Chatushthaya; Arogya, Utthapana, Saundarya, Vividhananda—pertaining to Sharira... deathless memory I bore. Here is a description of a vision that Sri Aurobindo had during his Baroda period: Once when Sri Aurobindo was on a visit to Chandod he went to one of the temples of Kali on the bank of the Narmada. He went there because of the company. He never had felt attracted to image-worship—if anything, till then he was averse to it. Now when he went to the temple he found... that can be behind image-worship. Sri Aurobindo, in one of his letters written much later, seems to be referring to this experience in the following words: Or, you stand before a temple of Kali beside a sacred river and see what?—a sculpture, a gracious piece of architecture, but in a moment mysteriously, unexpectedly there is instead a Presence, a Power, a Face that looks into yours, an ...
... all of a sudden. Soon afterwards: I met V., he had a vision two or three days ago. He saw a peacock coming down, and on the peacock someone was sitting, erect, who wasn't Kali but like Kali (the naked Kali) and was holding in her hand the severed head of a man. Did he see whose head it was? No, I asked him if it was a Western head, or a Chinese one, anyway what it was. He told me... Truth"—a lovely story...). That's why Sri Aurobindo clearly and openly took the side of the Allies—it wasn't out of love for the British! ( long silence ) What was Kali sitting on? On the peacock. It wasn't Kali, but like Kali, and naked. It is clearly a victory through the disappearance of a man or a country. I don't know why, while you were speaking to me, I saw the twisted face of... one, which is FAR more serious. So when I said that ["the twisted face of a Chinese"], it seems to be beside the point, but that's because when those two things coincided, 2 Kali suddenly became furious—I saw Kali furious, as when Page 282 she decides that it will be "paid for." So V.'s vision adds a few landmarks. Oh, you know, when she goes into a fit of power... you really ...
... preservation that make up the līlā . The greatness of this teaching is for the great. Those who are commissioned to bring about mighty changes are full of the force of the Zeitgeist. Kali has entered into them and Kali when she enters into a man cares nothing for rationality and possibility. She is the force of Nature that whirls the stars in their orbits, lightly as a child might swing a ball, and... In all movements, in every great mass of human action it is the Spirit of the Time, that which Europe calls the Zeitgeist and India Kala, who expresses himself. The very names are deeply significant. Kali, the Mother of all and destroyer of all, is the Shakti that works in secret in the heart of humanity manifesting herself in the perpetual surge of men, institutions and movements, Mahakala the Spirit... refuge in egoism saying 'I will not fight,' this thy resolve is a vain thing; Nature will yoke thee to thy work." When a man seems to have rejected his work, it merely means that his work is over and Kali leaves him for another. When a man who has carried out a great work is destroyed, it is for the egoism by which he has misused the force within that the force itself breaks him to pieces, as it broke ...
... example, a being called Kali; there are many Kalis, of many varieties, installed in temples and houses. All of them almost are vital beings and forces, some are ugly and terrible. I have known people who had such a fear of Kali—their household Kali—that they trembled at the thought of offending her in any way, of committing the least fault that would displease her; for that means Kali's vengeance. I know ...
... a being called Kali; there are many Kalis, of many varieties, installed in temples and homes. All of them almost are vital beings and forces, some are ugly and terrible. I have known people who had such a fear of Kali – their household Kali – that they trembled at the thought of offending her in any way, of committing the least fault that would displease her; for that means Kali's vengeance. I know ...
... now clearly. He must have gone into that higher consciousness but not established a contact with the instruments, and so long as this contact is not there people behave incoherently; they have this Bala or Unmatta Bhava 1 because they allow any Force to take hold of their instrumental nature and their conduct looks like a want of balance to others. It is something like the Paramahamsa Bhava 2 ... as personal. SATYENDRA: I suppose he has the same idea as Ramakrishna once had. SRI AUROBINDO: What was that? SATYENDRA: When Ramakrishna wanted to go into the Nirvikalpa Samadhi the form of Kali used to come and intervene. So he took an inner sword, as it were, and clove the form in two, and then he was able to pass into that state of featureless and trance. SRI AUROBINDO: But Sen is not ...
... regions, they met Kali, the King of Darkness, and Dwapara, Spirit of Twilight, coming to the earth. And when they asked where they were going, Kali replied, "To Damayanti's Swayamvara. My heart is fixed on wedding with that damsel." Hearing this, Indra smiled and answered, "But her Swayamvara is already ended. In our sight she hath chosen Nala for her husband." To this said Kali, that vilest of the... forbearance and knowledge, and purity and self control, and perfect tranquility of soul. Whoever, O Kali, wisheth to curse this Nala, will end in cursing and destroying himself by his own act!" Having spoken thus solemnly, the gods turned, leaving Kali and Dwapara, and went to heaven. But when they had gone, Kali whispered to Dwapara, "I must be revenged! I must be revenged! I shall possess Nala, and deprive... shalt help me to do this!" Yet was it twelve long years ere* Kali, watching Nala, could find in his conduct any slightest flaw by which he might be able to enter in and possess him. At last, however, there came an evening when he performed his worship without having completed all his ablutions. Then, through this error, Kali took possession of Nala. Also he appeared before his brother, Pushkara ...
... 3.1965: Behind all destructions—the big destructions of Nature—earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, cyclones, etc.... or the human destructions—wars, revolutions, riots—there is always Kali's Power and upon earth Kali works for the hastening of the terrestrial progress. Whatever is Divine not only in its essence but also in its realisation is above these destructions and cannot be touched by them ...
... Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II The Power of Kali Behind all destructions, whether the immense destructions of Nature, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, cyclones, floods, etc., or the violent human destructions, wars, revolutions, revolts, I find the power of Kali, who is working in the earth-atmosphere, to hasten the progress of transformation. All ...
... on a Kali puja day. 1. Hatred into harmony 2. Jealousy into generosity 3. Ignorance into knowledge 4. Darkness into light 5. Falsehood into truth 6. Wickedness into goodness 7. War into peace 8. Fear into fearlessness 9. Uncertainty into certainty 10. Doubt into faith 11. Confusion into order 12. Defeat into victory 9.10.51 (Kali puja ...
... Are not these the signs and do they not tell us that the great Avatar of all arrives to establish the first Satya Yuga of the Kali? For in the Kali too, say the secret & ancient traditions of the Yogins, there is a perpetual minor repetition of Satya-Treta-Dwapara-Kali sub-cycles, the subSatya a temporary & imperfect harmony which in the subTreta & subDwapara breaks down and disappears in the subKali... dumb fate & sorrowful annihilation. It is not, as we too often think in our attachment to the form, a melancholy law of decline & the vanity of all human achievements. If each Satya has its Kali, equally does each Kali prepare its Satya. That destruction was necessary for this creation, and the new harmony, when it is perfected, will be better than the old. But there is the weakness, there is the half... the future. The Pandits are therefore right when they make a difference between the practice of the Satya & the practice of the Kali. But in their application of this knowledge, they do not seem to me to be always wise or learned. They forget or do not know that Kali is the age for a destruction & rebirth, not for a desperate clinging to the old that can no longer be saved. They entrench themselves ...
... place. It is like the story X told me of his guru 2 who could command the coming of Kali (something which seems quite natural to me when one is sufficiently developed); well, not only could he commend the coming of Kali, but Kali with I don't know how many crores of her warriors! ... For me, Kali was Kali, after all, and Page 249 she did her work; but in the universal organization ...
... symbol of Shakti and devotion. Narada Narada stands for the expression of the Divine Love and Knowledge. Mahakali and Kali Mahakali and Kali are not the same, Kali is a lesser form. Mahakali in the higher planes appears usually with the golden colour. These—Kali, Shyama, etc.—are ordinary forms seen through the vital; the real Mahakali form whose origin is in the Overmind is not black ...
... in principle. 2 October 1957 ( Kali Puja 1959 ) We who have a common uplifting ideal, shall unite; and in this union and by this union we will face and overcome the attacks of all opposing forces of darkness and devastation. In union is Page 194 the strength, in union is the power, in union the certitude of Victory. Mother Kali will be with you on this day. 31 October... n which grows more and more integral, more and more constant, we turn to the Lord of the universe and to That which is beyond in a great aspiration towards the new Light. 31 October 1955 Kali Puja 1955 Long, long ago, in the dry land which is now Arabia, a divine being incarnated upon earth to awaken in it the supreme love. As expected it was persecuted by men, misunderstood, suspected ...
... 1927-1947) Three Sonnets Collected Poems The Cosmic Dance Know more > ( Dance of Krishna, Dance of Kali ) Two measures are there of the cosmic dance. Always we hear the tread of Kali's feet Measuring in rhythms of pain and grief and chance Life's game of hazard terrible and sweet. The ordeal of the veiled Initiate, The hero ...
... effective or (3) effective of a force or tendency intended ultimately to modify the present type of action or nature. Thus the sense of failure, error and misuse of energy which used to discourage the Chandibhava and bring back the merely calm or the discouraged passivity, now disappears in its causes and the basic elements of the bhava may be considered well-established, ie sauryam ugrata and yuddhalipsa... g are at least in established action. The sraddha alone is still deficient and liable, even in some of its efficient parts, to be discouraged. A fresh siddhi today is the finality of the Krishna-Kali relation in the personality; the personal activity of the Purushottam; the personal script; the personal vani; the personal guidance. The period of intermittent manifestation of guidance passed some... more definite. A third is preparing, but still indefinite. Page 237 9 February 1913 Today is marked mainly by the continuation of the movements of the eighth; development of the Krishna Kali relation, progress of the instruments of knowledge, a more general force of the Powers, a more settled action of the rupadrishti, a finally secure and easy action in the akash of the lipi, Kamananda ...
... Songs of Ramprasad ( I ) SAY what does it mean: the eyes drip with tears (when one takes the name of Kali) ? You have seen much, your. wisdom is great, say for certain what it is. One sense I make out: the body is but a sunken log! The name Kali is a fire burning .on the tongue, a fire that is flowing water, flooding water. I meditate also upon the Lord and close ...
... which is fourteen cubits in Treta, is reduced to seven cubits in Dwapara, and goes down to four and a half cubits in Kali. Sri Aurobindo 1.The Vishnu Purana, which was recorded in about the third century A.D., says many other interesting things about the Kali Yuga: "In the Kali Yuga, the kings will not take care of their subjects, and yet they will steal riches from their subjects on the pretext... caste will become almost like the Shudra [labourers]. . . . But notwithstanding all these defects, the great virtue of the Kali Yuga is that the spiritual progress man accomplishes with great, ascetic efforts in the Satya Yuga he can accomplish with very little effort in the Kali Yuga." 2.Some Puranas put the durations respectively as 4800, 3600, 2400, 3600, 2400 and 1200 years of the gods. One... when the degradation has begun and the age has lost one third of the Truth. It is followed by Dwapara, when Truth and Falsehood hold equal sway to begin with, but Truth continues to lose ground. The Kali, the Iron Age, throttles the remaining Truth, and the cycle is closed. The increasing twilight is finally a total Page 68 darkness. Darkness strangles earth's breast. It is stark ...
... November November Mother’s Agenda 1966 November 12, 1966 Yesterday was Kali puja, 1 and in English I would say, She has been outspoken . In the afternoon, she expressed... ( laughing ) her "view of things." She was displeased? ( Mother nods her head ) And it was amusing, because it wasn't just here, it wasn't just the earth, but it was a ... telegram: "We're dying of thirst, everything has dried up"! Quite symbolic. Yes, disorder—lack of equilibrium. × Kali represents the warrior aspect of the universal Mother. Ceremonies in honor of her take place every year around this time. ...
... out to Damayanti, "That my kingdom was lost and that I abandoned you was all the work of Kali, it was not my doing." Kali, adds Nala, was burnt by Damayanti's curse "like fire burnt by fire", and "was defeated by my endeavours and tapasya" What were Nala's efforts to defeat Kali and overcome the deep crisis in which he had been plunged? It would be too long to list all of them... in front of the gods or in front of Damayanti. In fact, he is so pure and sincere that Kali, after resolving to take possession of him, had to wait for twelve full years as he could not find any opening, any flaw that would allow him to sneak in. After twelve years, a minuscule fault was committed that gave Kali the opportunities he sought. From then onwards, Nala was not himself. However, in... crack appears in this beautiful picture widens more and more. ________ * Literally: "will get sons, grandsons, cattle, honour, health and happiness". Page 11 An evil being named Kali enters the king, clouds his judgement and leads him to all kinds of disasters, including the loss of his kingdom, exile, the separation from his children, the abandoning of his wife in the forest, ...
... the temple. Your brother also goes to the temple. Your brother is so handsome! —Aah... —He is a prince. —And you, little frog, who are you? He drew himself up to his full height: —I am Bala-Chandra, son of Bhaskar-Nath, the greatest sculptor in the country. —Aah... —My father is a hero, he added with an air of finality. And who are you? I was taken aback. —You don't want to... and sometimes, the tall pale green foliage of a tamarind tree or the fretted shadow of a banyan. Then a solitary rock over there, at the edge of the sands, like the colossus of Memnon. —That is Kali's rock. —But where are we? —To the north of the village. —But which country? —You didn't see the signpost at the entrance to the bridge? —The bridge... —But from where have you fallen... —You fled from them, eh, they are detestable. But I love them. Listen, brother, we'll work together, we shall discover the secret, I am going to introduce you to Guruji... His gaze was fixed on Kali's 7 rock, then he began to speak forcefully, slowly, as if he were seeing something: —The fact that you have come here this evening has a meaning, an object, no? But what meaning? What does this ...
... and pregnant. O Life, be full, ready and buoyant; O Death, lead my steps from mansion to mansion. Harmonise all these, O Brahmanaspati. Let me not be subject to these gods, O Kali. 1 So Sri Aurobindo makes Kali the great liberating power who ardently impels you towards progress and leaves no ties within you which would hinder you from progressing. I think this will be a good subject ...
... of a god, through an inner invocation—there is usually a whole ceremony in this connection—if the priest is someone having the power of evocation, then the thing succeeds (what Ramkrishna did in the Kali temple). But generally priests are people with the commonest ideas and the most traditional training and education; when they think of the gods they give them attributes and appearances which are popular... worshipped by the many are inhabited by beings who know only how to lead you to unhappiness and disaster. They are so far away from the divinity that one means to worship. There are certain family Kalis that are real monsters. I have even advised some to throw such an image into the Ganges to get rid of the evil influence emanating from it. But of course it is always the fault of man and not of the ...
... Streaming upon me and the hills around Shook with the feet of the descending power. I did the Rájayoga in three days, Which men with care and accuracy minute Ceaselessly follow for an age in vain— Not Kali's Rájayoga, but the means Of perfect knowledge, purity and force Bali the Titan learned and gave to men, The Yoga of the old Atlantic Kings. I came to Vyása, shining like a sun. He smiled and said... him all that thou knowst and art. For thou art he, elect from mortal men To guard the Knowledge,—yet an easy task While the third Age preserves man's godlike force,— But when thou seest the iron Kali come, And he from Dwarca leaves the earth, know then The time of trial, help endangered Man, Preserve the knowledge that preserves the world, Until Sri Krishna utterly returns. Then art thou from... I gather knowledge here, Then to my human frame awhile descend And walk mid men, choosing my instruments, Testing, rejecting and confirming souls, Vessels of the Spirit; for the golden age In Kali comes, the iron lined with gold. The Yoga shall be given back to men, The sects shall cease, the grim debates die out, And Atheism perish from the earth Blasted with knowledge, love and brotherhood ...
... come forward disappeared. That is receptivity. No one knew why they withdrew! On the Indian side a few were touched and they told me of terrible conditions. Since World War II, I have been keeping Kali 2 quiet, but she is restless! Times are critical, anything may happen. If people will only give up their ego! (B.) I shall suggest a simpler way—to turn to you. Perhaps the time has come... was pouring into Bengal, sparking off numerous reprisals against the Muslim communities there. × Kali : the warrior aspect of the supreme Mother. ...
... sixfold indriya and the thoughtpower in the mind. Their meaning is clear. For the full sense of vishuddhata, refer to the explanation of shuddhi in the seventh chatusthaya. Chandibhava Chandibhavah is the force of Kali manifest in the temperament. 1 Sraddha Sraddha is necessary in two things:— शक्त्यां भगवति चेति श्रद्धा । Shaktyam Bhagawati cha, iti sraddha. Page 12 ... itself and fulfil itself in dasyalipsa and atmasamarpana, in the surrender of himself to God and to God in man and the selfless service of God and of God in man. The Shudra is the master-spirit of the Kali, as is the Vaishya of the Dwapara, the Kshatriya of the Treta and the Brahmana of the Satya. Shakti Shakti is that perfection of the different parts of the system which enables them to do their... unable to hold these things perfectly. In extreme cases the physical brain is so disturbed by the shock from above as to lead to madness, but this is only in entirely unfit & impure adharas or when Kali descends angrily & violently avenging the attempt of the Asura to seize on her and force her to serve his foul & impure desires. Ordinarily, the incapacity of the body, the nervous system and the physical ...
... the incarnation of the Treta; it is full of great wars and mighty sacrifices. The Dwapara is full of Pradyumna; He prepares in the Dwapara the love which supports men through the Kali. Aniruddha, the Sudra, reigns in the Kali; He breaks the ancient moulds, He shatters to pieces the achar; He questions everything, destroys everything, levels everything, rebuilds everything. He is a Sudra and has the passion ...
... stopped him from coming near by touching his shoulders.... But that was clearly Kali. Sri Aurobindo came and I told him what had happened. (The boy had got back to his feet and was climbing the stairs again; when he saw Sri Aurobindo, he scampered off!... He never did it again, of course.) But that was clearly Kali: when Kali wants to, she can be very strong, but that still belongs to the realm of terrestrial... letter in which I was told... in short, that it had become impossible, intolerable, that Page 362 he could not be kept here. So I concentrated for a minute and Kali arrived—Kali in her battling mood, a black, dancing Kali. I told her, "Why don't you go on his head?" ( Laughing ) She went and did her dance on his head—the next day, he wrote he was leaving the Ashram. In this case, it was very... lost his balance and fell all the way down the stairs, he rolled right down the stairs. So I thought it was Sri Aurobindo who had made Kali intervene (he had heard that demented boy shout, you see). It's not the same thing. Long ago, when Sri Aurobindo was here, Kali used to come from time to time—but it still belongs to this world, it's not the same thing [as the supramental Power]. Another time ...
... latter progress in vijnana, sharira ananda and drishti of other planes. 17 + 5. Lilamaya Ananda Brahman with full fivefold subjective Ananda perfectly organised. 115 . 11 + 5 preparing (Kalibhava on five planes). The action of the divine Prakriti must centre in the Vijnana and flow from it and work itself out through a passive receptive channel of mind, a passive enjoying Prana, a passive... etc still strives to emerge into distinctness, stability & variety. Growth of the Kali permanence. The second chatusthaya increases in power. Tertiary dasya emphasised in action & thought. 3) 1 Telepathic trikaldrishti of movements of the child in the opposite house. 26 April 1915 Krishna-Kali now generalising itself at its lowest pitch. It alternates with the Anandam Brahma also... April 1915 The Krishna Kali as the all containing one (An. Br [Anantam or Anandam Brahma]) & everything as its expression in the terms of Purusha Prakriti. The Ishwara begins to take final possession. Truth continues to grow in the trikaldrishti telepathy, effectivity in the power. Rupa advances, but is still seriously obstructed. 30 April 1915 Krishna Kali in all, but not in the intensity ...
... invocation – there is usually a whole ceremony in this connection – if the priest is someone having the power Page 382 of evocation, then the thing succeeds (what Ramakrishna did in the Kali temple). But generally priests are people with the commonest ideas and the most traditional training and education; when they think of the gods they give them attributes and appearances which are popular... worshipped by the many are inhabited by beings who know only how to lead you to unhappiness and disaster. They are so far away from the divinity that one means to worship. There are certain family Kalis that are real monsters. I have even advised some to throw such an image into the Ganges to get rid of the evil influence emanating from it. But of course it is always the fault of man and not of the ...
... brotherhood. They built according to their knowledge, but the triangle has to be reversed before it can stand permanently. The action of the French Revolution was the vehement death-dance of Kali trampling blindly, furiously on the ruins She made, mad with pity for the world and therefore utterly pitiless. She called the Yatudhani in her to her aid and summoned up the Rakshasi. The Yatudhani... mantra, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, the stern and terrible addition "or Death." Death to the Asura, death to all who oppose God's evolution, that was the meaning. With these two terrible Shaktis Kali did Her work. She veiled Her divine knowledge with the darkness of wrath and passion, She drank blood as wine, naked of tradition and convention She danced over all Europe and the whole continent was... have heard in his demand the voice of the Revolution calling on him to stay his sanguinary course. But he was full of his own blind faith and would not hear. Danton died because he resisted the hand of Kali, but his mighty disembodied spirit triumphed and imposed his last thought on the country. The Page 516 Terror ceased; Mercy took its place. Robespierre, however, has his place of honour ...
... innumerable images and have known many people who had in their homes a Kali they worshipped and to whom, sometimes, quite dreadful things had happened. I always put them on their guard, I told them, "Don't think at all that Mahakali is responsible for your misfortunes, for she is not responsible for them. But it is likely that the Kali you have in your home must be harbouring some vindictive being, probably... same time reduced in power and capacity. Then, from the Overmind they come down into the human mind, the terrestrial mind and there... Take for instance this poor Mahakali; you have a multitude of Kalis, one more horrible than another; some are absolutely terrifying and horrifying, and they sometimes become quite repulsive beings who are exclusively human formations, that is, the outer form is given... their authority and power, and that really is the evil behind all religious institutions. Anyway, this is a digression. Let us come back to our subject. In the earth atmosphere there is indeed a Kali who deals with earthly things and is somewhat, one cannot say independent, yet not quite the expression of Mahakali; but she is altogether obedient to her and has her major qualities. They are diminished ...
... from Him. If you believe the Divine to be distant and cruel, He will be distant and cruel, because it may be necessary for your supreme wellbeing to feel the wrath of God. He will be Kali 1 for the worshippers of Kali, and bliss for the bhakta 2 He will be the All-Knowledge of seekers after Knowledge, the Transcendent Impersonal of the illusionist. He will be an atheist for the atheist, and the... the Divine, He will Page 118 come and uplift you, and He will be there, very near, nearer and nearer. × Kali : the warrior (or destroyer) aspect of the Divine. × Bhakta : one who follows the path of love. ...
... dread of me; NALA shall guard from KALI, if so now Thou spare to curse me, seeking grace of thee." Thus supplicated, Nala stayed his wrath, Acceding; and the direful Kali fled Into the Wounded tree, possessing it. But of no eyes, save Nala's, was he seen, Nor heard of any other; and the Prince, His sorrows shaking off, when Kali passed, After that numbering of... Nala's too. But wonderful! So soon as Nala knew That hidden gift, the accursed Kali leapt Page 89 Forth from his breast, the evil spirit's mouth Spewing the poison of Karkotaka Even as he issued. From the afflicted Prince That bitter plague of Kali passed away; And for a space Prince Nala lost himself, Rent by the agony. But... story. Nala's loss of his throne, his vicissitudes and separation from Damayanti upto his final reunion with her and his reinstatement are absent. The fault of Nala, which gives the opportunity for Kali to enter him and wreck his life and happiness, never occurs. The poem has only kept the "fairy tale" aspect and the sringar rasa is the dominating flavour all throughout. The poet describes at great ...
... ar which was around eight kilometres from Calcutta. There she built temples and temple gardens. On 31 May 1855, the temple was dedicated, and Ram Kumar was appointed the first priest of the Kali temple. Kali here is known as Bhavatarini—the Deliverer of the world. Gadadhar also was a frequent visitor, and after some time he too became a priest at the Bhavatarini temple of Rani Rasmoni. Next year... six kilometres away from Kamarpukur. Page 5670 After the marriage Gadadhar returned to Dakshineswar. From this time onward his 'state' changed. While worshipping the image of Mother Kali, he began to see Her divine forms. People thought he had gone mad. Complaints began to reach Mathuranath, the son-in-law of Rani Rasmoni, who in effect ran her estate. He came to see for himself. Seeing... then only shall I accept it." Such friendship developed between this couple of Mother and son! It was the most intimate relationship there could ever be. Like a little child he always asked Mother Kali whether he should do something or not. For example, when the Vedantist Totapuri wanted to initiate him in Vedanta —"I'll give you Nirvikalpa samadhi, 1 will you take it?"—he replied, "I don't know ...
... 1967 November 4, 1967 ( Regarding the storm that coincided with Kali Puja. ) Your home isn't flooded, is it? In the room over there, water fell on the table beside my chair, so I put a flower pot and gave people all the wet flowers! Has Kali calmed down? ( Laughing ) Maybe she got dampened! She laughed.... She can laugh, too! ( The c ...
... ineffective physical touches of their opposites, but not yet energetically active. With the same qualification the fourfold state of shakti is well established, but still uncertain in the bodily force. Chandibhava is limited as yet by the saumya character of the tejas which is full of dhairya and hatha, but not yet fierce & ardent except at intervals. Vali is there always, but Narasinha intermittently. This... rupadrishti, very bright in colours and numerous in forms and groups, mostly crude, in the prana akasha; this was under stimulus. In the afternoon the depression of the tejas parted and the Krishna Kali emerged with the Rudra personality of Krishna; the kamananda more continuous & persistent while walking. There is a throwback in the saundarya. The continuity and intensity of sharira Page 276 ... being expelled still appear momentarily or in isolated touches as external intrusions appearing with or without provocation. Exposure to cold is still effective in assisting this kind of uneasiness. The Kali consciousness aware of Krishna as the Iswara attached itself to all the acts & experiences; but the Krishna personality was held back & the anna given over to other influences. This last movement ...
... This handwritten note bore only this word and the date. Kalki is the name of the last Avatar who comes on a white winged horse to destroy the 'barbarians' ( yavan ) at the end of the Iron Age or the Kali Yuga , which is the period we are now passing through. His appearance marks the return of the Age of Truth, or the Satya Yuga . 9.7.59 Kalki Page 323 ...
... joyous indifference to all things in the world. He must be not un-mundane but supramundane, not inhuman but superhuman. In all his acts he must have in his soul the loud laughter, the attahasyam, of Kali. He must love with that inner laughter, slay with that laughter, save with that laughter, himself perish or reign, take joy or take torture with that secret & divine laughter. For he knows that the... Pure Blissful,—not anyone, no person or individual, for He alone is, but still neither a mere abstraction or state of Being. Entering into world existence, He is All-being, God, Shiva, Vishnu, Krishna, Kali, Allah, the Mighty One, the Humble, the Loving, the Merciful, the Ruthless. These things are aspects of Himself to His own consciousness. Just as Sacchidananda is Triune,—not three, but One,—for when... are false. Neither is one greater than the other, the Impersonal than the Personal, just as in the Personal, Shiva is not greater than Vishnu, nor Vishnu than Shiva, nor the All-Being than Krishna or Kali. Such exaggerated distinctions are the errors of partial or selective Yoga fastening on aspects & ignoring the true being of God in His self-manifestation. We must accept, for our perfection's sake ...
... India have a dark god and a dark goddess—Krishna and Kali. Krishna is dark, his is the deep blue of the sky. Kali is dark, hers is the blackness of the earthly night. The Vaishnava poet and saint sang: Oh, I love black, For black is the tamal tree, black is Krishna, Oh , how I love black. Ramprasad the Bhakta thus speaks of Kali, his dark Mother: the poem itself is very dark, that ...
... have a dark god and a dark goddess— Krishna and Kali. Krishna is dark, his is the deep blue of the sky. Kali is dark, hers is the blackness of the earthly night. The Vaishnava poet and saint sang: Oh, I love black, For black is the tamal tree, black is Krishna, Oh, how I love black. Ramprasad the Bhakta thus speaks of Kali, his dark Mother: the poem itself is very dark ...
... have a dark god and a dark goddess - Krishna and Kali. Krishna is dark, his is the deep blue of the sky. Kali is dark, hers is the blackness ofthe earthly night. The Vaishnava poet and saint sang: Oh, I love black, For black is the tamal tree, black is Krishna, Oh, how I love black. Ramprasad the Bhakta thus speaks of Kali, his dark Mother: the poem itself is very dark, ...
... legend 2 which you have written any relation with Kali Puja? Yes, my child, because on Kali Puja day I always distribute the flowers of "Divine's Love"; for Kali is the most loving of all the aspects of the Mahashakti; hers is the most active and most powerful Love. And that is why every year I distribute the petals of "Divine's Love" on Kali's Day. And so naturally this explanation of why these... beyond words, beyond systems, beyond languages; it is in a silent identity. It is in fact the only one which does not err. What else? Page 364 In the prayer you gave us this time for Kali Puja, you have written something in Sanskrit. It is Sri Aurobindo who has written a mantra. 1 Then why has he written like this? Why has he written this? Why don't you ask him? Perhaps ...
... am told that Babu Kali Prasunna Ghose has set his shoulder. However that may be, the works of this distinguished prose-writer are a remarkable proof of what I have just been saying. Not long ago anyone moving in that province of the mind which Babu Kali Prasunna has annexed, would have held it beneath the dignity of his subject to write in any medium but English. Work like Babu Kali Prasunna's marks ...
... with devotion) always attract an emanation or a representation, a representative form, which is present at the puja and responds: it responds to the puja. Every family that worships Kali, for instance, has its own Kali. And it's true, they are little entities that aren't quite independent, but have their own lives. And in Durga's case, it was very clear. So when I say it makes a big difference, it's ...
... when he came to Pondicherry [in 1910]. At the very beginning.... But then, what does he mean when he says, "When I knew that God was a woman"! (Nolini:) He always used to say that Krishna and Kali were one Page 110 and the same being. Ramakrishna, too, once became a woman: God was Krishna and he became a woman; for a long time he had that impression. Naturally, for me, the answer... that way?..." It depends on the date when it was written. (Satprem:) It looks like the same experience as Ramakrishna's. (Nolini:) At the time he used to sign letters not "Sri Aurobindo" but "Kali." Oh! (Nolini:) Yes, always.... All the letters he wrote to Motilal were signed that way. But the way he puts it!... ( general laughter ) Soon afterwards This morning, for HOURS ...
... might take Dr. X's treatment and call for the Divine's help. 5 August 1962 Will you ask Kali to burn me with a fire of fever? I have become rather desperate. Shall I take simple ayurvedic medicines? Before being so desperate, try ayurvedic treatment and take it with a concentration on Kali's Force. Blessings. 6 May 1965 Page 157 In every case, it is the Force that ...
... Fourth Period of commentaries (1969-1970) BHAKTI (Devotion): Fourth Period of commentaries (1969-1970) On Thoughts and Aphorisms Aphorism - 520 520—Kali is Krishna revealed as dreadful Power and wrathful Love. She slays with her furious blows the self in body, life and mind in order to liberate it as spirit eternal. Shall we complain when we see ...
... Indra Sen's Correspondence Indra Sen's Correspondence with The Mother 24 October 1946 On this Kali Puja day when you appear to us as Mahakali, my heart surges up with one prayer: May I realise that Mahakali's "blows beat what is rebellious in [our] material into strength and perfect truth, hammer straight what is wry and perverse and expel what is impure ...
... Mother said: “As if they are living for the Truth only and they are the people who will give the Truth to the world! There are people there who worship the Black Mary; I think it is a deformation of Kali. But they are not sincere in their adulation.” ...
... whole life: for years there has just been Sri Aurobindo, that's all, never anything else. The other day he came, and all of a sudden he had a vision: he saw Kali coming out of the Samadhi from the spot where Sri Aurobindo's head is—an all-blue Kali, covered with gold ornaments. On which day? Some four or five days ago. ( Mother remains silent for a long time, then a misunderstanding follows... feeling her in there. What surprised him was that instead of being naked, she was covered with gold. What? Oh, excuse me! You're speaking of Bharatidi! Never mind, what did you say about Kali? What surprised him was that she was covered with gold instead of being naked. She was coming out of the Samadhi? No, that doesn't surprise me. 6 But my reflection was regarding Bharatidi ...
... torture? Canst thou see Him in that which thou art slaying, see and love even while thou slayest? Thou hast thy hand on the supreme knowledge. How shall he attain to Krishna who has never worshipped Kali? All is the Divine and the Divine alone exists. 8 June 1970 Page 362 ...
... in the hearts of men. Dismissing the set ethical systems, defying conventional wisdom, he established in the Gita an inward and spiritual rule of conduct. He "prepared the work of the Kali," said Sri Aurobindo. Kali, the fourth Yuga, is the shortest time-wise. But, oh, how concentrated is the battle between the forces of purity and impurity, between the forces of light and darkness. It is horrible... into question. "The end of a stage of evolution is usually marked by a powerful recrudescence of all that has to go out of the evolution," to quote Sri Aurobindo. The battle is fiercest in Kali-yuga because Kali ushers in a new Satya Yuga. A new Age of Truth. "The seed of dawn sleeps in the heart of dusk." At any rate, although the system of the four castes was well established, it did not count... Manu—man comes from Manu. So there are fourteen Manus in one day of Brahma. The lifespan of each Manu is called a Manwantara. In each Manwantara there are seventy-one chaturyugas—Krita, Treta, Dwapara and Kali. One human Page 377 year is one day-night for the gods. Kritayoa lasts for 4,800 god-years, Tretayoga for 3,600 god-years, Dwapara lasts for 2,400 god-years, and Kaliyoga lasts for ...
... of commentaries (1969-1970) KARMA (Works): Fourth Period of commentaries (1969-1970) On Thoughts and Aphorisms Aphorism - 217 217—Who can bear Kali rushing into the system in her fierce force and burning godhead? Only the man whom Krishna already possesses. This is a charming and most expressive way of saying that only the conscious Divine ...
... Lord all this is a habitation whatsoever is moving thing in her that moves. Why dost thou say there is a world? There is no world, only One who moves. What thou callest world is the movement of Kali; as such embrace thy world-existence. In thy all-embracing stillness of vision thou art Purusha and inhabitest; in thy outward motion and action thou art Prakriti and the builder of the habitation.... being. There are many knots of the movement and each knot thy eyes look upon as an object; many currents and each current thy mind sees as force and tendency. Forces and objects are the forms of Kali. To each form of her we give a name. What is this name? It is word, it is sound, it is vibration of being, the child of infinity & the father of mental idea. Before form can be, name & idea must... unstable. No single rhythm can be eternally stable; therefore the universe is an ocean always in flow, and everything in it is mutable & transient. Each thing in Nature endures till the purpose of Kali in it is fulfilled; then it is dissolved and changed into a constituent of some other harmony. Prakriti is eternal, but every universe passes. The fact of universe endures for ever, but no particular ...
... 1960 1960 Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 October 19, 1960 ( The day before 'Kali Puja,' the ritual festival devoted each year in India to the goddess Kali, the warrior aspect of the universal Mother ) She has already been here for two days and ... Oh, yesterday especially, she was so ... in such a mood!—like a warrior. I said to her, 'But why not change ...
... The Spirit of Auroville Then I received a letter from Piero: Dear Huta, Today concreting in the Kali pillar is going well and we feel very strongly that the symbol of Mother and Her blessing is to be there. Therefore today I will prepare a hole 12x12x12 on top of the pillar, ready for the 21st. You will from the platform of meditation send up in ...
... static half of our work is done, but the active half remains. It is then that in the One we must see the Master and His Power,—Krishna and Kali as I name them using the terms of our Indian religions; the Power occupying the whole of myself and my nature which becomes Kali and ceases to be anything else, the Master using, directing, enjoying the Power to his ends, not mine, with that which I call myself only... only as a centre of his universal existence and responding to its workings as a soul to the Soul, taking upon itself his image until there is nothing left but Krishna and Kali. This is the stage I have reached in spite of all setbacks and recoils, imperfectly indeed in the secureness and intensity of the state, but well enough in the general type. When that has been done, then we may hope to found ...
... (1969-1970) BHAKTI (Devotion): Fourth Period of commentaries (1969-1970) On Thoughts and Aphorisms Aphorism - 519 519—Sumbha 1 first loved Kali with his heart and body, then was furious with her and fought her, at last prevailed against her, seized her by the hair and whirled her thrice round him in the heavens; the next moment he was slain ...
... the past (in Ashram) Pavitra-da was often addressed by many here as Ramakrishna. I gather that a portion of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa’s being had incarnated in him. It would seem once possessed by Kali, always possessed by Her. Who could have seen into this past life of Pavitra-da’s? Only one guess — our Lord Sri Aurobindo. My lover took away my robe of sin and I let it fall, rejoicing; then ...
... energy in the physical. It was for that the Kshatriyas did not give up meat in India. From Tamas you pass to Rajas and Vivekananda was not quite wrong. There came a Sanyasi who gave me a Stotra of Kali, – a very violent Stotra ending with "Jahi" "Jahi" – "kill", of securing Indian freedom. I used to repeat it but it did not give any results. Once I visited Ganganath (Chandod) after Brahmananda's... Keshwananda was there. With my Europeanized mind I had no faith in image-worship and I hardly believed in the presence of God. I went to Kernali where there are several temples. There is one of Kali and when I looked at the image I saw the living presence there. For the first time, I believed in the presence of God. At one time – in Sadhana – I used to try all sorts of experiments to see what ...
... Vast in Nature; then suddenly there comes the touch, a revelation, a flooding, the mental loses itself in the spiritual, one bears the first invasion of the Infinite. Or you stand before a temple of Kali beside a sacred river and see what? —a sculpture, a gracious piece of architecture, but in a moment mysteriously, unexpectedly there is instead a Presence, a Power, a Face that looks into yours, an... head. "With my Europeanised mind," said Sri Aurobindo, "I had no faith in image worship and I hardly believed in the presence of God. I went to Karnali where there are several temples. There is one of Kali. And when I looked at the image I saw the Living Presence there. For the first time I believed in the presence of God." Page 183 ...
... torture? Canst thou see Him in that which thou art slaying, see and love even while thou slayest? Thou hast thy hand on the supreme knowledge. How shall he attain to Krishna who has never worshipped Kali? You answer: "All is the Divine and the Divine alone exists." ( Mother goes into a contemplation ) ...
... The Radha-Power In the Chandi the names of the four Cosmic Powers of the Mother—Maheshwari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi, Mahasaraswati—are mentioned along with others, but the name Radha is not mentioned. This is a clear proof of the fact that when the Chandi was composed the Radha-Power was not manifested to the vision of the saints and that the Chandi mentions only the Cosmic Powers of the ...
... paragraph will appease his yearnings. Meanwhile we would suggest to him to put himself in communication with a Brahmin pundit and gather some information about the Amabasya and the worship of Raksha Kali. ...
... the United Nations has acted from a single motive, because they were dreadfully scared of a general war—of course, this blocks the vision. We'll see. But I believe in Kali, Mother. My only hope now is really in Kali: Kali's force striking. I can't imagine any other possibility. ( Silence ) This man who is heading Pakistan doesn't represent the whole of Pakistan. There is a whole part of Pakistan... do." It seems there was a sense of tremendous effort ( laughing ): "This is all I have managed to do." The world isn't ready. That's the worst part. The world isn't ready. So then, if it is Kali, it means everything back to the melting pot, and with the means at their disposal, that may mean having to start the whole civilization from scratch again—how many centuries wasted? What has come... But I mean that according to my vision (which I don't think is mine, it's not a personal vision), nights and days like yesterday (which aren't pleasant) obviously give you a knowledge, and upheaval [Kali] still belongs to the old method—it's accepting that the world hasn't changed. While this sort of Page 256 apparent shrinking is in fact perhaps the proof that the earth consciousness has ...
... Aphorism - 477, 478, 479 477—When will the world change into the model of heaven? When all mankind becomes boys and girls together with God revealed as Krishna and Kali, the happiest boy and strongest girl of the crowd, playing together in the gardens of Paradise. The Semitic Eden was well enough, but Adam and Eve were too grown up and its God Himself too old and stern ...
... felt I was near the Vast Realm of Light which is the Home of Mother Bala who has manifested to me in Her splendour of Light. The ascending path to the Home of Grace and Peace was seen. The Golden Door opened. I trod the interior path to the Heaven of Mother Bala and quickly entered into the vast Realm of Truth-Knowledge. I saw Mother Bala seated in Her Form of dynamic and vibrating golden Light in Her... my own room on my sixty-fourth birthday (24-7-76) at 12 noon, the Grace of our Divine Mother descended and entered into the depth of my mid-forehead. She came in the form of a Luminous Young Child Bala, in the same form as when She had been about seven years old-and opened the "chakra" on the top of the head, the Sahasrara, giving rise to wonderful visions and experiences. I feel that these... blossomed and expanded in that profound silence. In lonely silence again, I realised the Divine Mother, the Consciousness of all consciousnesses, manifesting Herself as a luminous young child-Bala. I became one with Her in consciousness. My uvula curved upwards' and tasted the oozing Amrita (Nectar) of Grace. The thousand-petalled lotus opened itself. I sensed its subtle 'fragrance full ...
... expects of Him. If you believe that the Divine is far and cruel, He will be far and cruel, because it will be necessary for your ultimate good that you feel the wrath of God; He will be Kali for the worshippers of Kali, and Beatitude for the Bhakta. And He will be the All- Knowledge of the seekers of Knowledge, the transcendent Impersonal of the illusionists; He will be atheist with the atheist and the ...
... 11. Page 106 himself Ekarāt, sole monarch, and he is designated by the Matsya as "a portion of Kali". Perhaps it is these words of the Matsya that clinched the misreading of "Nanda" for "Chanda" in the Vishnu's and Bhāghavata's phrase ending with: "....Kali age will attain its magnitude." And possibly the 1015 years after 3138 B.C. are meant to suggest that in the 15th of... Yugas or Ages breaks down. The Purānas speak of a recurring cycle of Four Ages, Chaturyuga - Krita, Tretā, Dvāpara and Kali - whose lengths progressively diminish in the ratio of 4:3:2:1. The Kri-tayuga is alloted 1,728,000 years, the Tretā 1,296,000, the Dvāpara 864,000, the Kali 432,000 years. The total or Mahāyuga is 4,320,000 years. The sum of the first 3 Yugas is 3,888,000 years. If the Kaliyuga... the Kali Age, p. 75. 2.A History of Sanskrit Literature, p. 411. 3. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1911, p. 486, fn. 1. 4. The Hymns of the Atharvaveda (Benares, 1916), I, p. 390. Page 128 fairly ancient too. The Aitareya Brāhmana (VII.15.4), describing the merits of exertion, has the picturesque phrases: "A man while lying is the Kali; moving ...
... taken by energy in this eternal work of creation, preservation and destruction. This is the work of Chit-Shakti, the conscious Power of the Divine. Shiva and Kali are one, not two. When at rest, it is Shiva and when creating, it becomes Kali. These phenomenal creations of trillions of names and forms are not outside itself for there is nothing except this sole abiding one Existence or the Existent ...
... fell, just at the hour I enter into contact with X, I called for his help—whereupon he sent me this little Kali whom he had already sent once before. So I went to your house, I took you in my arms and pressed you tightly to my heart to keep you as sheltered as possible from blows, and I let Kali do her warrior dance against this titan who is always trying to possess you, creating this rebelliousness ...
... it is the instrument of my rapture. 427) I did not know for some time whether I loved Krishna best or Kali; when I loved Kali, it was loving myself, but when I loved Krishna, I loved another, and still it was my Self with whom I was in love. Therefore I came to love Krishna better even than Kali. 428) What is the use of admiring Nature or worshipping her as a Power, a Presence and a goddess? What... from thee. 518) Sumbha first loved Kali with his heart & body, then was furious with her and fought her, at last prevailed against her, seized her by the hair & whirled her thrice round him in the heavens; the next moment he was slain by her. These are the Titan's four strides to immortality and of them all the last is the longest and mightiest. 519) Kali is Krishna revealed as dreadful Power... heaven and thou exceedest the emancipation of the Adwaitin. 476) When will the world change into the model of heaven? When all mankind becomes boys & girls together with God revealed as Krishna & Kali, the happiest boy & strongest girl of the crowd, playing together in the gardens of Paradise. The Semitic Eden was well enough, but Adam & Eve were too grown up and its God himself too old & stern & ...
... materials it studied, three books in particular drew its attention. Bhawani Mandir was the first. "The Bhawani Mandir Page 264 (temple to Bhawani, one of the manifestations of Goddess Kali)" ran the Report, "exalt Bhawani as the manifestation of Sakti. Indians must acquire mental, physical, moral and spiritual strength.... They must draw strength from religion. How this is to be done... Com-mitee's Report again refers to Bhawani Mandir. "The central idea as to a given religious order is taken from the well-known novel Ananda Math of Bankim Chandra. We find the glorification of Kali, under the names of Sakti and Bhawani (two of her numerous names) and the preaching of the gospel of Force and Strength as the necessary condition for political freedom. 1 The necessity for Indians... Each aspect creates and marks an age. Sometimes She is Love, sometimes She is Knowledge, sometimes She is Renunciation, sometimes She is Pity. This Infinite Energy is Bhawani, She also is Durga, She is Kali, She is Radha the Beloved, She is Page 266 Lakshmi, She is our Mother and the Creatress of us all. Bhawani is Shakti In the present age, the Mother is manifested as the ...
... this tendency in this way so long as it does not drop from them. Useless and therefore inadvisable [ to sacrifice animals to Kali ]. External sacrifices of this kind have no longer any meaning—as so many saints have said, sacrifice ego, anger, lust etc. to Kali, not goats or cocks. Page 414 Religious Fanaticism There is nothing noble in fanaticism—there is no nobility of motive ...
... Behind all the destructions—the big destructions of Nature—earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, cyclones, floods, etc., or the human destructions—wars, revolutions, riots—there is always Kali's power and upon earth Kali works for the hastening of the terrestrial progress. Whatever is Divine not only in its essence but also in its realisation is above these destructions and cannot be touched by them ...
... certain gods who stand behind these planets. Behind the Sun & Moon is Vishnu, behind Mangal and Shani Rudra, behind Shukra, Rahou & Ketou is Kali, behind Budha Lakshmi, and behind Brihaspati Durga. Vishnu gives royalty & victory, Rudra force and fortune, Kali subversive genius & destructive energy, Lakshmi wealth & ease, Durga wisdom, protection and glory. Page 764 ...
... discontinued. 2) The samata has now to be based no longer on udasinata but on nati with chanda samánanda (Vani); the sukham is not to be shanta sukham, but chanda sukham, centred therefore in Chandibhava of Mahakali, not in its own chatusthaya, nor on the Maheshwari pratistha. (thought-perception sruti-smriti). Last night the vijnana-buddhi made a preliminary self-arrangement, which has been disturbed... about sudden powerful results, is that it establishes only a momentary force in the Akasha, instead of a permanently growing Power of Nature in the material ether which will form a dominant centre of Kali always responsive to the Purusha in this Adhara. It is noticeable that when this Shakti fails in its effort, the object after executing a contrary or different movement, returns to fulfil the original ...
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