The Maha Kali Aspect of The Mother

The Maha Kali Aspect of The Mother.

SRI AUROBINDO SAYS......,

Q: About the Mother's Mahakali aspect it is said in ‘The Mother’: “When she is allowed to intervene in her strength, then in one moment are broken like things without consistence the obstacles that immobilise or the enemies that assail the seeker”. How is this intervention of the Mahakali force felt?

A: It is felt as if something swift, sudden, decisive and imperative. When it intervenes, it has a kind of divine or supramental sanction behind it and is like a fiat against which there is no appeal. What is done cannot be reversed or undone. The adverse forces may try, may even touch or invade, but they retire baffled and it is seen as soon as they withdraw that the past ground has remained intact ? it is felt even in the attack. Also the difficulties that were strong before it touched by this fiat lose their power, their verisimilitude destroyed or are weak shadows that come only to flicker and fade away. I say ‘allowed’, because this supreme action of Mahakali is comparatively rare, the action of the other Powers or a partial action of Mahakali is more common.

Sri Aurobindo. 24-8-1933.

SRI AUROBINDO SAYS...,

Q: While praying today I saw the image of Mother Kali. She was black and naked and was standing with her foot on the back of Shiva ? as she is traditionally described. Why is Kali seen in such a form and on what plane is she seen like this?

A: It is in the vital. It is Kali as a destroying Force — a symbol of the Nature Force in the ignorance surrounded by difficulties, wresting and breaking everything in a blind struggle to get through till she finds herself standing with her foot on the Divine itself — then she comes to herself and the struggle and destruction are over. That is the significance of the symbol.

9-2-1934.

To the sincere seeker, Mahakali is the divine warrior, protecting and aiding the ascent. To those who oppose, she is the implacable enemy. “Terrible is her face to the Asura, dangerous and ruthless her mood against the haters of the Divine; for she is the Warrior of the Worlds who never shrinks from the battle.”

Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, Chapter Six, pp. 42-45.

Kali’s Dance of Destruction

Ideas warring and fierce leaped upon life; 

A hard compression held down anarchy 

And liberty was only a phantom’s name: 

Creation and destruction waltzed inarmed 

On the bosom of a torn and quaking earth; 

All reeled into a world of Kali’s dance. ||68.83||

Soul-Force of Mother of Works and Force as Kali

I wear the face of Kali when I kill, 

I trample the corpses of the demon hordes. ||123.16||

I am charged by God to do his mighty work, 

Uncaring I serve his will who sent me forth, 

Reckless of peril and earthly consequence. ||123.17||

I reason not of virtue and of sin 

But do the deed he has put into my heart. ||123.18||

Kali Black

I have created all, all I devour; 

I am Death and the dark terrible Mother of life, 

I am Kali black and naked in the world, 

I am Maya and the universe is my cheat. ||128.24||

I lay waste human happiness with my breath 

And slay the will to live, the joy to be 

That all may pass back into nothingness 

And only abide the eternal and absolute. ||128.25||

For only the blank Eternal can be true. ||128.26||