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The Divine Shakti in Its Various Forms · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  When we recognize that the world is an actual manifestation of
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  the Divine, we can begin to appreciate the Divine in all
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  things that we experience, all things that we see, all that we
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  hear, all that we feel or touch or smell.
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  The Divine manifests through His power Shakti, which takes
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  various forms depending on the intention and the specific plane
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  on which that manifestation is taking place.
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  We can identify a number of planes that go to make up our
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  world, including a mental plane, the domain of mind where thought
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  and its operations are the controlling force, a vital
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  plane, the domain of the life energy, where force and movement
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  rule. The physical plane, the domain
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  of forms that take shape and express the divine through form,
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  and the psychic plane, the domain of the soul that supports
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  the development and expression of the psychic being.
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  Each of these planes is manifested as the result of the
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  action of one of the four great powers of the Divine.
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  Shakti Maheshwari embodies the power of wisdom and knowledge
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  and rules the mental plane. Mahakali embodies the power of
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  force in action and thus rules the vital plane.
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  Mahalakshmi embodies the power of beauty and harmony and thus
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  rules the physical plane. Mahasaraswati is the power that
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  overseas the growth and development of the Divine
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  Presence in the soul and is the embodiment of love in action,
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  ruling over the psychic plane. In his book the Mother, Sri
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  Aurobindo describes these 4 great powers in detail in the
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  6th chapter, known by many as the Matri Upanishad, the
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  Upanishad of the Mother, the Divine Shakti, who manifests the
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  divine intention in the creation through the operation of these
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  various powers on their respective planes of action.
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  The Mother notes quote on the physical plane the divine
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  expresses himself through beauty, on the mental plane
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  through knowledge, on the vital plane through power, and on the
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  psychic plane through love and quote reference Sri Aurobindo
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  and the mother powers within chapter 17 The vital page 132.