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Namah Vol. 29, Issue 4, 15th January 2022

to the power of Mahakali only when you are to another dimension of Mahalakshmi. She is
ready to face the pain. Whenever you run not just abundance, She is beauty too.
from pain you close the door, so how can
she enter? Don’t say that first give me the We will go to the final dimension of Mahalakshmi,
power and then I will enter the process. No. for that you have to really dig deeper. A very
First you enter, then the power will come. common injury that we experience every day
Say, let there be pain, let it come. is that people don’t love me. Very rarely you
experience that you don’t love because in the
Then, we will make it slightly more subtle: ultimate analysis, everything is an extension
a sense of want, you always feel that I don’t of yourself. So when you are not capable of
have. A sense that ‘I don’t have.’ That gives love, you are cutting yourself away from
a lot of pain. That is an injury. So, experience yourself, at the level of ultimate truth of the
that pain; you need something and you don’t soul, the truth of the spirit. Instead of saying,
have it. So what do you do? Strive for it. Work ‘People don’t love me, I should say, I don’t
hard for it. If we work hard for it, then only love. I am dry.’ The power of Love, one of
we can open to the power of Mahalakshmi. A the highest in creation, happens if we open
dimension of Mahalakshmi, it is not the entirety to the power of Mahalakshmi — love, beauty,
of Mahalakshmi, She is very vast. If you are abundance. Can I make an effort to love? If
not working hard, you are not opening to you really make an effort to love, you are
the power of abundance, to Mahalakshmi’s opening to the power of Mahalakshmi.
Force. Let us accept the reality of matter, let
us accept the reality of material life. And as How do you do that? By saying sweet words?
Sri Aurobindo has said, this world is not an Yes, but not entirely. By caring for others?
illusion, it’s an absolute reality: Isavasyam Yes, but not entirely. The entirety is — see
Idam sarvam. If this world is a covering of everyone as you, there is nothing but you.
the Supreme, a dress of the Supreme, how When you accept everyone as a part of your
can it be unreal, how can it be an illusion? If being, when you say that they are mine, when
all this is Brahman, how can it be an illusion, you hold everybody within yourself, which
how can it be falsehood? It is truth and truth is the final phase of love. Identity; true love
alone. Matter is truth, this creation is truth. is identity. Can I get identified? We are
The Supreme resides here, we cannot run moving from sympathy to empathy. Keeping
away. We have to dance in tune with him. yourself in their position, experiencing them,
So, dancing with this injury of ‘want’, this understanding them, and from that plane,
injury of poverty, that is one dimension of attending to them.
opening to Mahalakshmi.
Don’t forget the words — consciousness
Another dimension is about ‘ugliness.’ Do and attention. Become aware of them, when
you get hurt by ugliness? Anything ugly we are discovering love, we are expanding
hurts you, injures you? Heal it by striving for ourselves. You have become conscious and
beauty. Make life beautiful. The moment you you are paying attention. Becoming one with
try to make things beautiful in all dimensions, them, experiencing them and from that point,
materially, emotionally, mentally, you open giving yourself. Love is essentially giving

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