Chapter 34Forms, Powers, Personalities and Appearances of the Mother · Mahakali

(2) Or should she think of Mother in her present form which she sees during Pranam, as separate from her physically and apart from her in her suite at the Ashram?

She has been brought up and moulded spiritually in the first way. She always cognises the Divine as Formless, Immanent and Omnipresent. But now if you advise it, she is willing to worship the Mother in her heart in a personal way.

To meditate on the Mother as the formless Divine is a good meditation and can be continued, but for the full effect in this Yoga it is not enough. To meditate on the personality of the Mother in the heart is also necessary — but whether she should do that now or not depends on the feeling in herself — whether she needs it or feels ready for it.

28 May 1935 I see the Mother in various forms but I am unable to understand their meaning. Is it true that she shows herself to us in different forms and aspects?

planes.

12 March 1933

* Sometimes when I see the Mother I feel as if she is the image of divine Ananda and her form looks like that of a young girl. Is there any truth in my feeling?

Ananda is not the only thing — there is Knowledge and Power and Love and many other powers of the Divine. As a special experience only it may stand.

30 April 1933

* I can see the Mother in different forms, on every level, in my ¯adh¯ara. I cannot understand what is the purpose of her taking different forms.

It is always so — the Mother manifests in many forms according to the need of what has to be done.

29 January 1934