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Namah Vol. 32, Issue 2, 15th July 2024

sought the meanings and Yahoo-search And so is completed the picture by these
reveals the affirmation that ‘wali’ in Hindi ‘Words’ received on this given Day...: that it
means governor, protector, guardian… and is She, as Mahakali, the Divine Mother, who
even the word, as name, ‘Deepa’ too implies can and does change and transform the
light, lamp…. So, had the word opened as habits, those and that in habit and thus, those
‘Deepa’ + ‘wali’, then too the Essence would troublesome and nagging inhabitants....
have been the same! cleansing and establishing the Temple,
within, where She can permanently stay....
To the receiving consciousness, all three Her ways shocking as well, in order to burn
coalesce: Mahakali, the Divine Mother, away those adamant refusals to change the
Carrier, Giver of Light, in Herself the movements of the lower Nature.
embodiment of Light, the ‘Truth-Light’.....
our Protector, Governor, Guardian. Likewise, it seems ‘inhabit’, its meaning and
usage in and by this consciousness, inhabited
Now to the ‘Words’, referred to above: for so long.... and still, till it wanted to stay
The Mother’s Words, Prayers for us: in habit! After all, no movement can escape
“Oh, let Light be poured on all the earth and the Light of consciousness, no usage of
Peace inhabit every heart.… (1) ” the faculties and gifts can be anything but
conscious. So, how can the speech be left
Then, Sri Aurobindo’s Words, on Mahakali: to its usual ways of functioning! How can
speech maintain its unconscious ways: ‘it has
“But for her what is done in a day might have been so, so shall it continue to be…. so has it
taken centuries.… (2) ” been in use, so it means what it means…?’ It too
has to make a beginning to become conscious,
And again, the Mother’s Words, the Same even if it falls and continues to falter for long.
ones, are received (apparently from and
through different physical mediums).... Inhibited we are, by these in habit, these
inhabitants. Even when we want to do away
The result of the received words with them, even if we abhor the restrictions,
yet we resist their removal and disappearance
The Word ‘inhabit’ opens.... reveals the Light for good: wanting Light, when it shines, want
in it: ‘in habit’. to run away from It, It refuse and deny....
seeking refuge again in the darkness.
Furthermore inflows:
“Our life is a paradox with God for key (3).”
We are slaves of habit, creatures of habit.... the
‘force of habit’ having its say most often.... and Paradox of life
so is maybe the Practice, on and in the Path
essential, to reform, re-form, consciously form Crying for Light, as It gives even a slim ray
new habits, in accord with Truth, and eliminate of Itself, given the measure of the opening
and transform the older ones....: that the Truth in us or creating that opening with the Force
may inhabit.... contained in Itself, we protest as we detest

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