A Quest for Community
Thursday, October 09, 2003
In his letters, Sri Aurobindo too has clarified:
"These four Powers are the Mother's cosmic Godheads, permanent in
the world-play; they stand among the greater cosmic Godheads to whom
allusion is made when it is said that the Mother as the Mahashakti of
this triple world 'stands there (in the Overmind plane) above the
Gods.' "
"In a sense the four Powers of the Mother may be called, because
of their origin, her Emanations, just as the Gods may be called
Emanations of the Divine, but they have a more permanent and fixed
character; they are at once independent beings allowed their play by
the Adya Shakti and yet portions of the Mother, the Mahashakti, and she
can always either manifest through them as separate beings or draw them
together as her own various Personalities and hold them in herself,
sometimes kept back, sometimes at play, according to her will. In the
supramental plane they are always in her and do not act independently
but as intimate portions of the supramental Mahashakti and in close
union and harmony with each other."
