Chapter 16The Mother’s Universal Action and Her Embodied · The Transcendental Mother and the Embodied Mother

I am or was under the impression that Mother is the Cosmic and Supracosmic Mahashakti.

I don’t quite understand the question. I have explained in The Mother that there are three aspects, transcendent, universal and individual, of the Mother.

31 May 1933

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As I see it, there are two Shaktis in the world: the Cosmic Shakti and the individual Shakti — our Mother. I believe it is difficult to remain in direct connection with the Cosmic Shakti, while the individual Shakti is always here before us. I would like to know more about these Shaktis.

There is one divine Force which acts in the universe and in the individual and is also beyond the individual and the universe. the body to bring down something not yet expressed in this material world so as to transform life here — it is so that you should regard her as the Divine Shakti working here for that purpose. She is that in the body, but in her whole consciousness she is also identified with all the other aspects of the Divine Force.

16 June 1933 The universal and individual Mother are the same — these are two aspects of the Supreme Mother — but the differentiation is for the multiple action and play. So also one feels the self as one’s own self in an individual way but also that there is the same self