** Our Devi of the Week ** SARVAMBIKESHA

[Guest guest]

The complete Goddess. This title is made up of three Sanskrit terms :

terms -- sarva (complete), ambika (mother), isha (god);. thus

identifying Her as the Complete Deity

from whom both Feminine and Masculine forms of divinity arise.

 

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Who is Shakti?

 

Allow Her to answer for Herself:

 

"I am Manifest, Unmanifest, and Transcendent Divinity;

I am Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva,

As well as Saraswati, Lakshmi and Parvati.

I am the Earth, the Sun and the Stars,

And I am also the Moon.

I am all animals and birds,

And I am the outcaste as well, and the thief.

I am the low person of dreadful deeds,

And the great person of excellent deeds.

I am Female, I am Male, and I am Neuter."

>From the Devi Bhagavatam Purana

 

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