Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

1. The Mother: Individual, Universal, Transcendent

Fragment ID: 18999

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 or terrible, but golden of colour and full of beauty, even when formidable to the Asuras.

10 February 1934