Equal, patient, unalterable in her will she deals with men according to their nature and with things and happenings according to their Force and 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 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 them according to their blindness.
Not damned. Nobody is damned and none forever. If the Divine. If the Divine damns forever then those things will cease to exist not finding support in the One Existence. Even darkness is a veil of the Divine. He is everywhere, even in the densest darkness of the Inconscient as Sri Aurobindo reveals in several places including Savitri.
‘All here is a mystery of contraries:Darkness a magic of self-hidden Light,
Suffering some secret rapture’s tragic mask
And death an instrument of perpetual life.’
In the description of Maheswari, Sri Aurobindo is describing one particular action of the Divine Wisdom that sometimes casts down some (not damned) into the darkness since they need the taste and experience of the darkness before they are ready for the ascension. This too is an act of Compassion since some need to learn by experience and the consequences of the choices one makes. But the moment one has learnt or even before that, as soon as there is a cry for help, the same Divine Compassion leans and lifts us out of that dark state. Very simply it means that the Divine Compassion is one with Wisdom.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
