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The Devi Gita: Chapter Four

Posted by Madhu B. Wangu on December 20, 2010

INSTRUCTIONS IN THE YOGA OF KNOWLEDGE 4. 1-2 THE GODDESS’S REASON BEHIND THE REVELATIN OF HER COSMIC FORM The Goddess said: How distant you are, so humble, from this form of mine, so magnificent! Yet out of affection for my devotees, I have displayed such a form. Not by study of the Vedas, nor by [...]

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The Devi Gita: Chapter Three

Posted by Madhu B. Wangu on November 26, 2010

The Goddess Reveals her Cosmic Body (Viraj) 3. 1-4 THE MYSTERIES OF MAYA AND THE GODDESS’S ENTRY INTO THE CREATION I imagine into being the whole world, moving and unmoving, through the power of my Maya, Yet that same Maya is separate from me; this is the highest truth. From the practical point of view, [...]

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The Devi Gita: Chapter Two

Posted by Madhu B. Wangu on October 27, 2010

Chapter Two 2. 1-10 GODDESS AS PREEXISTING CAUSE OF THE UNIVERSE & MAYA The Goddess: May all the gods attend to what I have to say. By merely hearing these words of mine, one attains my essential nature. I alone existed in the beginning; there was nothing else at all, O Mountain King. My true [...]

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