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Transforming the Asuras within us

Monica Gulati

Abstract
The article is an exploration, recounting the story of Creation narrated by the Mother as its base. It
looks at the dark forces, the Asuras that manifested as a result of the conversion of the four Powers
manifested by the Divine Mother, Aditi in the process of the creation of the Universe. The Asuras are
present within us, and it is the yoga that each one of us must attempt if ready, to show all these four
powers their true light, their true Origin and their true face so that the seeming dualities merge in their
supernal essence.

The ‘Story of the Creation,’ as described by the
Mother goes something like this. In the beginning,
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there was the Supreme (Purusa), and to experience
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himself he manifested Sakti, Aditi (or Prakrti or
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Life-Force) or the Divine Mother, out of himself.
The Divine Mother then manifested, out of herself,
four powers — Consciousness, Bliss, Truth and
Life. She asked these four powers to manifest the
creation. When these powers went out to create
the manifestation, they became independent of
their Origin, of the Mother/the Supreme. In that
ignorance and in cutting themselves off from
their Origin, they turned into their opposites —
in the sense:

• Consciousness became unconsciousness to undo the mistake of the first creation, the
• Bliss became suffering Mother/the Supreme then manifested Herself/
• Truth became untruth or falsehood Himself in the creation directly, through the
and Life became death. building of a hierarchical creation, one with the
rungs of a ladder of consciousness (Supermind-
This was the first creation. And it is said that Overmind-Illumined mind- Higher mind-

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