Chapter 42Forms, Powers, Personalities and Appearances of the Mother · The Mother’s Vibhutis

Mahalakshmi, and the second was the traditional one. About the third, the Mother did not speak fully. The form was three-faced with something like a crown on top. Is there any tradition in India or outside of a three-faced form of Mahalakshmi? And what is the significance of the same goddess-personality of forms?

it disappeared almost immediately. The first form was the true one, that which she wears on the Overmind Plane which is the home of the greater Gods — as soon as it touched your mind, it took the traditional form which is the one with which your mind is familiar. The third shape must be a symbolic one (not traditional) — it would seem to be a correspondent one on the Shakti side to the Trimurti, indicating the unity in difference of three powers in the Cosmic Consciousness — in it is the same manifestation in different forms, — the Overmind Power, the traditional Lakshmi and the One Power in the Mother here.

3 September 1936 Today, immersed in deep meditation, I saw a beautiful chakra opening above my head, and on that chakra two lotuses were blooming and on those lotuses you and the Mother were sitting. After that, I invoked the Mother in my entire being and then I saw Mahasaraswati descending. Why did open above my head?

It is Mahasaraswati’s work to use the power and light and experiences that come in from above so as to change in detail the whole outer nature.

24 April 1933

* Is it mostly the Mahasaraswati aspect of the Mother that works in our sadhana here?