Conditions of the Action of the Mahasaraswati Aspect of the Divine Mother

While the other powers of the Mother simply do not abide in conditions that are inconsistent to them, Mahasaraswati works to raise up and resolve all the incompatible movements in the nature. Thus, she is with us in our sincere efforts during both the best and the worst of times. Sri Aurobindo describes it thus: “Therefore of all the Mother’s powers she is the most long-suffering with man and his thousand imperfections. Kind, smiling, close and helpful, not easily turned away or discouraged, insistent even after repeated failure, her hand sustains our every step on condition that we are single in our will and straightforward and sincere; for a double mind she will not tolerate and her revealing irony is merciless to drama and histrionics and self-deceit and pretence. A mother to our wants, a friend in our difficulties, a persistent and tranquil counsellor and mentor, chasing away with her radiant smile the clouds of gloom and fretfulness and depression, reminding us always of the ever-present help, pointing to the eternal sunshine, she is firm, quiet and persevering in the deep and continuous urge that drives us towards the integrality of the higher nature.”

The character of Mahasaraswati’s work is one of perfection in detail. “Moulding and remoulding she labours each part till it has attained its true form, is put in its exact place in the whole and fulfils its precise purpose. In her constant and diligent arrangement and rearrangement of things her eye is on all needs at once and the way to meet them and her intuition knows what is to be chosen and what rejected and successfully determines the right instrument, the right time, the right conditions and the right process. Carelessness and negligence and indolence she abhors; all scamped and hasty and shuffling work, all clumsiness and a `peu pr`es and misfire, all false adaptation and misuse of instruments and faculties and leaving of things undone or half done is offensive and foreign to her temper. When her work is finished, nothing has been forgotten, no part has been misplaced or omitted or left in a faulty condition; all is solid, accurate, complete, admirable. Nothing short of a perfect perfection satisfies her and she is ready to face an eternity of toil if that is needed for the fullness of her creation.”

This power is necessary for the fulfillment of the other aspects and powers of the Mother, as they “…lean on her for its completeness; for she assures the material foundation, elaborates the stuff of detail and erects and rivets the armour of the structure.”

Sri Aurobindo,