Maheshwari
Imperial
MAHESHWARI is seated in the wideness above the thinking
mind and will and sublimates and greatens them into
wisdom and largeness or floods with a splendour beyond
them. For she is the mighty and wise One who opens us
to the supramental infinities and the cosmic vastness,
to the grandeur of the supreme Light, to a treasure-house
of miraculous knowledge, to the measureless movement
of the Mother's eternal forces. Tranquil is she and
wonderful, great and calm for ever. Nothing can move
her because all wisdom is in her; nothing is hidden
from her that she chooses to know; she comprehends all
things and all beings and their nature and what moves
them and the law of the world and its times and how
all was and is and must be. A strength is in her that
meets everything and masters and none can prevail in
the end against her vast intangible wisdom and high
tranquil power. Equal, patient and unalterable in her
will she deals with men according to their nature and
with things and happenings according to their Force
and the truth that is in them. Partiality she has none,
but she follows the decrees of the Supreme and some
she raises up and some she casts down or puts away from
her into the darkness. to the wise she gives a greater
and more luminous wisdom; those that have vision she
admits to her counsels; on the hostile she imposes the
consequence of their hostility; the ignorant and foolish
she leads according to their blindness. In each man
she answers and handles the different elements of his
nature according to their need and their urge and the
return they call for, puts on them the required pressure
or leaves them to their cherished liberty to prosper
in the ways of the Ignorance or to perish. For she is
above all, bound by nothing, attached to nothing in
the universe. Yet has she more than any other the heart
of the universal Mother. For her compassion is endless
and inexhaustible; all are to her eyes her children
and portions of the One, even the Asura and Rakshasa
and Pisacha and those that are revolted and hostile.
Even her rejections are only a postponement, even her
punishments are a grace. But her compassion does not
blind her wisdom or turn her action from the course
decreed; for the Truth of things is her one concern,
knowledge her centre of power and to build our soul
and our nature into the divine Truth her mission and
her labour.