Who is Shakti?..... Allow her to answer for Herself....

[Guest guest]

I am Manifest, Unmanifest and Transcendent Divinity,

I am Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva

As well as Saraswati, Laksmi and Parvati

I am the Earth, The Sun and the Stars

And I am the also the Moon

I am all animal and birds,

And I am the outcast 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

 

 

In the Devi's Supreme Cosmic Form,

The Satyaloka is situated on the topmost of Her head;

The Sun and Moon are her eyes;

The quarters of the sky are Her ears;

The Vedas are Her words;

The Universe is Her heart;

The Earth is Her loins;

The space between earth and sky is Her navel;

The constellations are Her Thighs;

The Maharaloka is Her neck;

The Janarloka is Her face;

Indra and the Devas of the Svarloka are her arms;

Sound is the organ of Her ears;

Fire is within her Face;

Day and Night are Her wings;

The mountains are Her bones;

The rivers are Her veins,

And the trees are the hairs of Her body.

Childhood, youth, and old age are Her finest modes;

The two twilights are Her raiment;

And the Moon is the mind of the Mother of the Universe.

~ Devi Bhagavata Purana, VII.33.1-21

 

 

I travel with the Rudras and the Vasus, with the Adityas and All-Gods

I wander. I hold aloft both Varuna and Mitra, Indra and Agni, and the

Pair of Asvins.

 

I cherish and sustain high-swelling Soma, and Tvastar I support,

Pusan, and Bhaga. I load with wealth the zealous sacrificer who pours

the juice and offers his oblation

 

I am the Queen, the gatherer-up of treasures, most thoughtful, first

of those who merit worship. Thus Gods have stablished me in many

places with many homes to enter and abide in.

 

Through me alone all eat the food that feeds them,-each man who sees,

brewhes, hears the word outspoken. They know it not, but yet they

dwell beside me. Hear, one and all, the truth as I declare it.

 

I, verily, myself announce and utter the word that Gods and men alike

shall welcome. I make the man I love exceeding mighty, make him a

sage, a Rsi, and a Brahman.

 

I bend the bow for Rudra that his arrow may strike and slay the hater

of devotion. I rouse and order battle for the people, and I have

penetrated Earth and Heaven.

 

On the world's summit I bring forth the Father: my home is in the

waters, in the ocean. Thence I extend o'er all existing creatures,

and touch even yonder heaven with my forehead.

I breathe a strong breath like the wind and tempest, the while I hold

together all existence. Beyond this wide earth and beyond the heavens

I have become so mighty in my grandeur.

 

Devi suktha-Rigveda, mandala 1,suktha 125