Chapter 39Forms, Powers, Personalities and Appearances of the Mother · Mahalakshmi

and Voices1 was that the Ishwara and the Divine Shakti were one Person or Being in two aspects and it puts forward this union of them as Krishna-Mahakali as of great power for the manifestation.

20 October 1936 What is the essential difference between the Mahakali form as described in the Chandi and the Shyama form?

These — Kali, Shyama, etc. — are ordinary forms seen through the vital; the real Mahakali form whose origin is in the Overmind is not black or dark or terrible, but golden of colour and full of beauty, even when formidable to the Asuras.

10 February 1934

* Sometimes I see the Mother in the form of Mahakali or as the Transcendent and Universal Mother. But I see her in a white colour. I know that Kali is called Shyama because her colour is black, but I saw white. Why is this?

colour.

13 March 1934 While praying today I saw the image of Mother Kali. She was black and naked and standing with her foot on the back of Shiva. Why is Kali seen in such a form and on what plane is she seen like this?

It is in the vital. It is Kali as a destroying Force — a symbol of the pling and breaking everything in a blind struggle to get through till she finds herself standing with her foot on the Divine itself 1 By K. Amrita. Published in Amrita (Pondicherry: Sri Mira Trust, 1995), pp. 49–67.