𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐀𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲
The Goddess Has Two Forms- One Auspicious and The Other Terrible, similar to Shiva’s terrible form as Rudra apart from His usual auspicious form. This
The Goddess Has Two Forms- One Auspicious and The Other Terrible, similar to Shiva’s terrible form as Rudra apart from His usual auspicious form. This
mahishasura’s episode from The Devi Mahatmya reveals that through active struggle with divine rajas, one can easily overcome enslavement to the indriyas and live righteously
Medhas, the sage who is one of the central characters in The Devi Mahatmya, helps to raise the awareness of the king (suratha) and merchant
The earth quaked and the mountains rocked in the wake of the Warrior Goddess, The Great Unity Of The Innate Powers (Saktis) of all the
Perplexed by the multiple names employed to refer to The Goddess- Maha Devi, Chandika, Ambika, Maha Kali, Ma Chamunda, Ma Brahmani, Devi Maheshwari, Ma Kaumari,
The combat between The Divine Mother and sumbha (in the final or third charita) symbolically represents battle between false-ego with the ‘True Self’, where the
This final victory represents the realization of the true Self, the end of all multiplicity, the steady experience of Oneness, and the passage from an
Perplexed by the multiple names invoked to refer to The Goddess- Devi, Chandika, Ambika, Kali, Ma Chamunda, Brahmani, Maheshwari, Kaumari, Vaishnavi, Varahi, Narasimhi, Aindri and
raktabija, who strides onto the battlefield after the death of Chanda and Munda, is none other than the citta vrttis. That raktabija is symbolic of
What do these two asuras denote? chanda means ‘fierce’ or ‘passionate’ while munda denotes a ‘shaved head’. Generally a shaved head is symbolic of vairagya