MAHASARASWATI

MAHASARASWATI is the Mother’s Power of Work and her
spirit of perfection and order. The youngest of the Four, she is
the most skilful in executive faculty and the nearest to physical
Nature. Maheshwari lays down the large lines of the worldforces,
Mahakali drives their energy and impetus,Mahalakshmi
discovers their rhythms and measures, but Mahasaraswati presides
over their detail of organisation and execution, relation of
parts and effective combination of forces and unfailing exactitude
of result and fulfilment. The science and craft and technique
of things are Mahasaraswati’s province. Always she holds in
her nature and can give to those whom she has chosen the
intimate and precise knowledge, the subtlety and patience, the
accuracy of intuitive mind and conscious hand and discerning
eye of the perfect worker. This Power is the strong, the tireless,
the careful and efficient builder, organiser, administrator, technician,
artisan and classifier of the worlds. When she takes up
the transformation and new-building of the nature, her action
is laborious and minute and often seems to our impatience slow
and interminable, but it is persistent, integral and flawless. For
the will in her works is scrupulous, unsleeping, indefatigable;
leaning over us she notes and touches every little detail, finds out
every minute defect, gap, twist or incompleteness, considers and
weighs accurately all that has been done and all that remains still
to be done hereafter. Nothing is too small or apparently trivial
for her attention; nothing however impalpable or disguised or
latent can escape her. Moulding and remoulding she labours
each part till it has attained its true form, is put in its exact place
in the whole and fulfils its precise purpose. In her constant and
diligent arrangement and rearrangement of things her eye is on
all needs at once and the way to meet them and her intuition
knows what is to be chosen and what rejected and successfully
determines the right instrument, the right time, the right conditions
and the right process. Carelessness and negligence and
indolence she abhors; all scamped and hasty and shuffling work,
all clumsiness and `a peu pr`es and misfire, all false adaptation
and misuse of instruments and faculties and leaving of things
undone or half done is offensive and foreign to her temper.
When her work is finished, nothing has been forgotten, no part
has been misplaced or omitted or left in a faulty condition; all is
solid, accurate, complete, admirable. Nothing short of a perfect
perfection satisfies her and she is ready to face an eternity of toil
if that is needed for the fullness of her creation. Therefore of all
theMother’s powers she is themost long-suffering with man and
his thousand imperfections. Kind, smiling, close and helpful, not
easily turned away or discouraged, insistent even after repeated
failure, her hand sustains our every step on condition that we are
single in our will and straightforward and sincere; for a double
mind she will not tolerate and her revealing irony is merciless to
drama and histrionics and self-deceit and pretence. A mother to
our wants, a friend in our difficulties, a persistent and tranquil
counsellor and mentor, chasing away with her radiant smile
the clouds of gloom and fretfulness and depression, reminding
always of the ever-present help, pointing to the eternal sunshine,
she is firm, quiet and persevering in the deep and continuous urge
that drives us towards the integrality of the higher nature. All
the work of the other Powers leans on her for its completeness;
for she assures the material foundation, elaborates the stuff of
detail and erects and rivets the armour of the structure.-THE MOTHER-SRI AUROBINDO.