Like Shiva, Durga is also referred to as “Triyambake” meaning the three eyed Goddess. This suggests that she protects the devotees from all directions. These represent eight quadrants or ten directions in Hinduism. The consort of Lord Shiva is depicted as having eight or ten hands. When the Demonic forces create imbalance, all the Gods unite to one Divine force called Shakti or Durga or Mahishasurmardini, to abolish all evil. The Demonic forces are self-destructive but very powerful while the Divine forces are constructive but slow and efficient. Goddess Durga, hence, rose to power and killed the dangerous demon Mahish and all his great commanders.
She also obtained very powerful weapons, such as the Chakra from Lord Vishnu and the Trishul (trident) from Lord Shiva. To destroy these demons, all Gods offered their radiance to her creation and each formed different parts of Durga’s body. The Hindu Goddess Durga is a unified symbol of all divine forces and is said to have manifested when evil forces threatened the very existence of the Gods. The ‘r’ refers to diseases and the ‘ga’ is the destroyer of sins, injustice, irreligion, cruelty and laziness. The syllable ‘du’ is synonymous with the 4 devils namely poverty, sufferings, famine and evil habits. The name ‘Durga’ in Sanskrit means ‘invincible’. Believed as the root cause of creation, sustenance and annihilation, Durga is the principal form of the Mother Goddess in Hinduism.
0 kommentar(er)
