Devi Gita

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Start of chapter 33.

 

The Devi said: "O Giriraja ! This

whole universe, moving and unmoving is created by My maya shakti. This maya is

conceived in Me. It is not, in reality, different or separate from Me. So I am

the only Chit, Intelligence. There is no other Intelligence other than Me.

Viewed practically, it is known variously as Maya, avidya; but viewed from the

point of Brahman, there is no such thing as Maya. only one Brahman exists,

I am

that Brahma, of the nature of Intelligence. I create this whole world on this

Unchangeable eternal Brahma and enter first as Prana within it in the form of

chidabhasa. O Mountain ! Unless I enter as Breath, how can this birth and

death

and leaving and retaking bodies after bodies be accounted for ! As one

akasa is

denominated variouslty as Ghatakas, patakas, so too I appear variously by

acknowledging this prana in various places due to avidya and various

antahkaranas.

 

As the sun rays are never defiled when they illumine various objects on earth,

so too, I am not defiled in entering thus into various high and low

antahkaranas. The ignorant people attach buddhi and other things of

activity on

Me and say that the Atman is the doer. The intelligent people do not say that.

I remain as the Witness in the hearts of all men, not as the Doer."