VOLUME THREE
CONTENTS:
1. Devi reveals to the Trinities, her supreme power of Creation.
2. Further events which occurred after the destruction of Daksha Yajna.
3. The tragedies of the God World and the solutions created by Devi.
4. The happy ending.
SHAKTI
The serpent sacrifice was incomplete!
Serpent clan was saved by a child!
The curse of a child started all the mess!
The boon given to a child cleared all the mess!
A relief was in the air!
Janamejaya felt purified.
His mind had lost all the anger and vengeance.
He was now ready for philosophy.
And, he was full of questions.
What? Why? Wherefore? Who? By Whom? Who is Supreme?
Vyaasa answered!
“Yes! Yes! Wonderful questions! Even Naarada had these doubts! And Brahma had to answer him!
Good of you to think like this.”
A good teacher never demoralizes the student! But, all these questions had to be sorted out; without
hurting the student’s morale!
The two demons Madhu and Kaitabha were dead! Vishnu exhausted, sat on the serpent-bed!
Brahma heaved a sigh of relief!
The quarters rang with the laughter of Devi!
Who was She? Brahma wondered! Where will She be? He looked at Vishnu enquiringly.
Vishnu was in no mood for answering his questions! He closed his eyes and lost himself in pleasant dreams of his own!
His reverie was broken by the arrival of Rudra! Vishnu got up in reverence.
Rudra looked at Brahma who was eager for knowledge. He pointed upwards.
THERE SHE STOOD! THE QUEEN SUPREME!
The TRINITY welcomed her with prayers!
She smiled graciously! The three divinities had a problem!
They were all bereft of their spouses.
They had no SHAKTI to help them!
Brahma had more problems.
He wanted to create! But with what?
There was only water, water, water, everywhere!
No Gunas! No senses! No elements! Nor their essences!
What to do?
She smiled!
Jasmines blossomed!
Roses bloomed!
Lightning lost its sparkles!
A lustrous air-vehicle arose in front of the Trinities!
She commanded with her eyes.
They obediently sat in the Vehicle Divine!
What a vehicle!
Like a heaven on move!
Pearl garlands decorated the roof!
Small bells tinkled a pleasant tune!
A pleasant perfume pervaded the interiors!
Maids of unseen beauty stood in servitude!
The vehicle rose to unknown heights!
Vishnu’s eyes closed back in day dreams!
Some dream-girl was dancing in his mind!
Vishnu wished that the journey never ended.
But who heard his mind’s pleas?
They had arrived at the destination!
What would one like to see?
Every thing? Any thing?
Well! The Tri-Gods saw everything and anything!
Gardens filled with fruit trees!
Forests filled with various animals!
Huge mountains!
Expansive lands!
Men! Women!
Rivers! Streams! Ponds! Lakes!
Beautiful cities!
Tall buildings!
Sacrificial halls!
Some king hunting some animal somewhere!
Even he saw them!
Another place! Another vision!
A beautiful garden!
A cow resting under the Paarijaata tree!
An elephant with four husks was standing nearby!
Divine damsels walked around, piercing the hearts of all the Gods!
Even Beauty Queens like Menakaa were there!
Someone played a Veena!
Some young girl was just kissing a flute! And it sang in intoxication!
Some girls were practicing a different dance-stance!
Some were lying on the grass like pink serpents!
Some were biting the flower stalks instead of their lovers’ fingers!
Some were trying water-games in gurgling waters!
Nobody had any thought for modesty or shyness!
Clothes were just flying about them like kites rather than covering their shapely bodies!
They looked like butterflies spreading their wings when they ran helter-skelter chasing deer!
Some were trying to vie with the cuckoo birds in singing!
It was a noisy scene!
Anklets! Bangles! Giggles! Shouts! Screams!
Many Vidhyadharas and Gandharvas were watching these beauties from hidden corners!
And their condition? Only moths which fall in the fire will know!
Shatakratu was there! Poulomya was there with her Lord Indra!
Varuna! Kubera! Yama! Surya! Vibhavasu! Many many Gods!
Meanwhile a chariot emerged from a nearby city.
A chariot equal to that of Indra! But, men were pulling it!
Before they could see what it was, the Vehicle of Three Gods traveled away fast!
Vishnu yawned!
Shiva was expressionless!
Brahma was wonder-stuck!
As he watched, a Brahma-Loka arose in front of them!
The Four Vedic-Deities were in attendance!
A Brahma was seated there! This Brahma was surprised!
Before he could understand anything, the vehicle flew up entering a warmer atmosphere!
Kailaasa Mount came into view!
And a Shiva was seen there sitting on a divine bull!
His two sons were in attendance!
The Seven Shaktis were also following him!
Soon they reached a Vaikunta also!
And saw another Vishnu with another Lakshmi serving him!
Vishnu woke up with a jerk!
Was that Lakshmi his dream girl? So...red; million hues of reds! So So beautiful; like a red red rose with countless red shades!
But before he could see properly, the vehicle was on the move!
Soon they reached the Ocean of Nectar!
Huge waves were dancing against the rocky shores!
Divine trees adorned the island in the middle of it!
The Paarijaata flowers covered the ground like a carpet!
For one single flower of that variety, the two wives of Krishna had fought once! Their husband had satisfied them with a tree brought from the heavens!
A Great Hero! But Here?
Nobody bothered about these flowers! Not even about the rare Mandaara Flowers!
Young girls of unparalleled beauty were walking over these flowers!
Even these flowers hurt their tender feet like thorns! Their feet almost bled in pain!
They were trying to pluck some flowers to make garlands!
Drops of sweat were making pearl-garlands on their foreheads!
Beautiful jeweled buildings shone like Suns in the midst of those trees!
The walls were covered with exotic designs!
Carpets of extreme softness adorned the floors!
Various jewels and pearls hung as canopies on the roof!
A network of beautiful lights emanated from those palaces!
The whole scene looked like a fairy land!
And in the centre of that island, there was a cot in the shape of Shiva!
Jewels unseen in any heavens adorned the cot!
Rainbows of different colors unknown even to Gods shone around it!
On that cot was resting a female of unparalleled beauty!
Her fair body was covered with reddish paste!
Red flowered garlands adorned her beautiful neck!
Her eyes were also red because of the intoxicating liquid she was sipping!
The luster from her person blinded the eyes like crores of lightning flashing together!
Her face shone like a red lotus made of light!
Her eyes were like deep lakes where two dark fish played around!
Her tender lips were wet with wine and red wine drops clung to the corner of her lips like dripping blood!
Her teeth also shone like red flashes of light!
Her tongue which was rolling the betel leaf was like a red serpent!
Crores of Lakshmis wouldn’t equal the beauty there!
Was she a Moon or Sun or a collection of stars?
Were those shining things on her person - ornaments or lights of different hues?
HREEM HREEM HREEM; some birds were humming these sounds!
She was so young! Vishnu felt he was an old man in her presence! It was a new sensation to him!
What huge breasts! Who were fortunate to play with them! So tender! So hard! So tempting! What were they filled with? Bliss! Nectar!
A mischievous smile played on her lips!
A shining colorful crown adorned her head!
Her hair was profusely falling out! Which fortunate male would bury his face in them?
There… She is getting up!
There… She is getting up!
There…She is walking on the flowers thrown by her maids!
Her tender feet are reddening by the effort!
Her tender waist is bending by the weight of the breasts!
Her hips are moving like a palanquin!
Her anklets are providing an orchestra for her rhythmic walk!
She stopped midway! Her face turned back to look at these Gods! She smiled!
Like hit by a lightning, they watched her unmoving!
She signaled them with her eyes and entered the huge palace there!
The three followed her mesmerized!
But the distance seemed enormous!
For her, it was just a few steps!
They climbed their vehicle and traveled to the gates of the palace!
She was standing near a creeper of unknown flowers!
Pollen from those flowers was sprinkling their yellow dust on her!
She looked like a creeper herself!
Golden red in hue!
The navel acting like a stem base!
The hair-line up to the breasts acting like a stem!
Two breasts looking like nectar filled fruits!
Her face shining like the Sun at dawn!
The three Gods entered the room!
Wow! All the three had turned into females!
Very Very beautiful women!
A woman with four faces!
A woman with blue hue!
A woman with serpent on her neck!
Looking at them, she laughed aloud!
But, it was not offending!
It was lovely!
Like the gurgling Ganga!
Like the cool drizzle!
Like music sweet!
They saluted in reverence!
Their heads touched her lotus-feet!
Their eyes saw the feet decorated with red paste!
They saw the toe-nails like lotus buds! Their eyes saw the toe nails shining like mirrors!
The little toe-nail; like a lotus bud! And inside it were mirrored -
Infinite creations!
Many Many Brahmas!
Many Many Vishnus!
Many Many Shivas!
Many Many Gods!
Many Many Worlds!
Many Many Events!
The three female Gods saw themselves inside it looking at themselves saluting the lotus-feet of DEVI!
They looked on and on!
Eyes stuck to the wondrous visions!
Their heads were still touching her tender feet!
Maybe a hundred divine years passed in that fraction of a second!
Even Vishnu was stunned by these visions!
They got up slowly.
They felt faint!
Shiva raised his voice in praise!
The other two followed!
Hymns and Praises flowed from their mouth incessantly!
DEVI was lost in her own thoughts!
Her eyes were stealing a look at Shiva who was now in a female form!
What a form!
What a dispassion!
Yes! Her own Creation; yet, he had stolen her heart; but, She had failed to move his heart!
She of course had implanted an equal amount of passion in him to balance the dispassion.
But passion could never imprison him!
Passion was a quality he used as a duty; when She called, he came!
Unions were there!
Linga was there!
Creations were there!
But was it enough?
He never entered Her Palace alone!
Always his mission was to help others!
Even now, before She had appeared before the threesome, he had prayed to Her to appear in front of Brahma and give him some knowledge!
She had acted accordingly and played this game of making female forms out of them!
This was Her idea! Not his!
She wanted to just surprise him!
Shiva was actually Her Master!
She was a slave to him!
Slave to his Dispassion!
But She wanted him to be passionate also!
As Daakshaayini She had failed!
As Uma She had failed!
She always did what He requested!
Now She had enacted this drama to please him!
Now? What more?
She looked at him enquiringly! Shiva smiled!
A Majestic Voice rose like the bell of a temple!
Shiva spoke; Devi listened attentively!
“O Mother Supreme!” Devi felt offended.
Shiva continued. His eyes were gleaming with some mischief!
“Why? What wonder is there in my calling You Mother?
This Vishnu came out of you!
This Brahma came out of you!
They are Your Sons!
I also came out of You!
Am I also not Your son?
Aren’t You the Mother of Creations?
Every cell in my body is you!
Every breath in my person is you!
Every thought in my mind is you!”
He paused. He looked at her. He had somehow managed to express His Love!
Devi’s face reddened a little more! She looked elsewhere to hide her excitement!
Her lips trembled a little! A smile just for him lingered there.
Shiva continued:
“O Supreme Mother! People speak of us as the three Great Gods! But whatever we do is by Your Command only! You WILL; Creations are there! Even the non-conscious objects exist as unconscious because YOU exist as the Conscious Principle in them!”
Devi wondered! She tried to decipher His Love-Code in those innocent-looking hymns!
Was he telling her that whatever he saw, even if it was an inanimate object he saw her only?
She threw a side-glance at him! His eyes smiled at her unseen by his companions.
Devi sighed in intoxication! Her heavy bosom heaved in love pangs! The ashes on the wide forehead of Shiva slightly melted in the sweat drops that started to form! He continued his praises undaunted.
“You have Complete Free will! You take various forms and play around us as You like! A minute piece of the pollen sticking to your lotus-feet gives all three of us the Power to do our duties!’
Shiva looked at her tender feet looking like lotuses. He wanted to hold them to his bosom and kiss all the pollen sticking to them! His ashes melted more! He shook himself a little to normalize his behavior! He was losing all his dispassion and becoming powerless against the love-darts shooting out from her eyes!
Shiva continued:
“Why did you make me different? Why all three of us are different? Why do we think differently? Why we have different Gunas? You must have made us for different purposes! You are actually the Moving Force behind us! Yet, we are spoken of as Gods with different functions!
You are compassionate! Nobody knows about You, the Supreme Cause of Causes!
We three are just created beings! How can we equal You in anything?
Only merits of immense quantity must have resulted in having Your Vision like this!”
Shiva again paused! He looked crestfallen! Did he think that she was too high in powers to act as his beloved?
Shiva spoke:
“You have made us into female forms now! Another Play of Yours, I suppose!”
Shiva paused and looked at her enquiringly! He knew very well what her intentions were.
As soon as they entered the Palace they had turned into female forms! DEVI had rushed towards them and embraced all three of them! She had kissed Brahma on the forehead! He was the ‘Son’! She had kissed Vishnu on the cheeks! He was the ‘Brother’! And, coming to Shiva, She had hesitated! Her red face had become redder! Shiva as a woman had taken the liberty to embrace her himself and kissed her gently on the apple like cheeks!
Brahma had been in Divine Stupor! Vishnu had looked the other way! And, Shiva just managed to brush her tender lips with his rough lips quickly! She had gone back to her seat as if drunk! What was her relation to Him? Was She a flower waiting for the bee?
The Female disguise was for the best! The Lovers could meet unknown to anybody! She bent her head, shy at the thought of that stealthy embrace! His voice broke her day dreams! She threw a side-glance at him. He was smiling mischievously at Her now! He spoke again:
“What your intention was, we do not know O Goddess! But, the play of yours has caused us to get the extreme bliss ever possible! In male forms we would never have been able to approach You at all!
We have had the good fortune now of having the glimpse of Your lotus-feet! Who wants the male form and rule the Creations? I would prefer to remain as a female and serve You day and night!”
Shiva smiled again. Devi felt he was teasing her again! Would she be foolish enough to have him as a female, in privacy? This is to fool others! Soon he will have his own form! The Supreme Man Ever Born!
And, She will somehow appease him and unite with him! They would be forever together! No separation at all! He and She! She and He! No one else! Nothing else! Just Love! Just Passion! Just them both! For the first time in eternity she won’t be alone anymore! The formless ONE will be TWO as ONE bound by LOVE! Her dreams were again broken by Shiva’s voice!
“Even penance and contemplation cannot give this Vision of Yours O Queen! Only those who worship your lotus-feet are blessed by Complete Liberation! Why don’t You teach me the Mantra that leads to Your Presence? The nine-lettered word, I have forgotten though I had got it in my first birth! Let me recite that Mantra so that I will be freed from this worldly existence!”
Devi slowly walked towards him.
She whispered something in his ear.
He smiled and accepted it with reverence.
He moved away and started chanting that Mantra!
What Mantra was it?
How can She give Her Beloved Lord, an ordinary Mantra?
Was it a Mantra to increase the Passion?
Was it a Mantra to increase Love?
Was it a Mantra to make them unite soon?
Who can understand the MIND of the SUPREME QUEEN?
But let us chant this sacred Mantra of Devi to attain the Ultimate Freedom!
OM AIM HREEM KLEEM CHAMUNDAYAI VICCHE
Salutations! Salutations! Salutations!
Brahma was pensive!
He was the Master of the Vedas!
He had so far believed that he was the only one endowed with Creative Powers!
He felt all his knowledge has turned into zero!
‘What was the use of Ashtaanga Yoga, the method of Eight-fold Discipline?
If by just taking Her name one got liberation, then what was the value of Vedas?
What is the use of going behind Taattvas (Principles) counting their Sankhya (numbers)?
SHE WAS THE ONLY ONE!
Devotion to Her lotus-feet is enough to get Mukti!
Even a Knower of Upanishads always chants only Her Name with devotion!
By just a side-glance of Hers She can create countless worlds!
She had just created him to act as Her puppet with the string in Her hand!
Even Vishnu seems powerless! Even Hara is submissive to Her!
Who is She? From where is She born? Nobody seems to know!
She seems to be the original Power House!
According to Saankhya philosophy Purusha is the Conscious Self and Prakriti is the Unconscious subordinate! There is no third person!
But Vedas cannot utter Untruth!
BRAHMAN IS ONE AND SECONDLESS - proclaim the Vedas!
Was SHE the Purusha actually?
But SHE looks like a female?
Then, SHE is not the Formless Brahman!
SHE has a form - Beauty Personified!
But Vedas say that the Supreme is FORMLESS and ONE!
Duality or Non-duality; what should one believe in?
Either Vedas must be untrue, or I do not understand them properly!
Form or Formless; which is to be sought?’
He was so much absorbed in his thoughts; he did not hear Her first.
She went inside his mind and woke him up.
Like rising from a deep sleep state he got up with a start.
She was looking at him. She spoke nectar-like words.
Brahma was bathed in True Knowledge!
DEVI SPOKE:
What confuses you, O Knower of Vedas’?
Vedas are not untrue. They proclaim that there is only one Brahman; and I AM THAT BRAHMAN!
There is no difference between ME and the BRAHMAN of the Upanishads.
THAT is I! I am THAT!
Only a fool will see the difference; but a wise man will know that there is no difference!
He immediately gets liberated!
The BRAHMAN is second-less, Eternal, Ancient; so say the Vedas!
I am ONE!
I am SECONDLESS!
I am ETERNAL!
I am ANCIENT!
I am the NON-DUAL ONE!
When I want to create Duality arises!
ONE becomes many like reflections in a mirror; like shadows of a person! So is the world to ME!
At the time of creation differentiation arises.
Differentiation is creation!
Seen and Unseen also arise!
Form and Formless also arise!
Purusha and Prakriti also arise!
When the Creation merges into Me, they also merge into ME!
At that time I am not a woman or man or a non-gender!
I AM WHAT I AM!
All THIS is My Imagination!
At My Will I create and destroy!
Nobody can know ME!
All arise out of ME!
I am SHAKTI!
All SHAKTIS are My Forms!
I am the Nerve-Centre of the Whole Creation!
I am the nerves running through the Whole Creation!
I am the Truth and I am the Untruth!
I am the Vision!
I am the Speech!
I am the Seer!
Tell me Brahma, What I am not?
Know that I AM EVERYTHING!
I PERVADE everything!
This world is My Very Form!
What else can be My Form?
I alone exist as All Gods!
I as Shakti’s forms show my prowess!
I am the power in all the actions.
I make Purusha stand as the Conscious Principle behind everything.
I am the coolness in water.
I am the heat in fire.
I am the light in the sun.
I am the nectar in the moon.
I am free to do as I want!
If I renounce anybody their very existence will be nil!
If Shakti is not there, Shankara cannot destroy any demon.
A person without Shakti is weak.
If anybody is to be condemned, he will be addressed as power less; not Vishnu less or Rudra less!
If anybody has fallen, slipped, frightened, quiet, or under the control of enemies, they call him powerless; not Rudra less!
I am the Power behind your Creations also.
So am I the Power in all the Gods.
I am the Power in the Earth, which bears so much weight.
I can drink off all waters!
I can remove the heat from the fire!
I can stop the wind from moving!”
She paused.
Brahma was in a stunned state. Vishnu had the look of a prisoner! Rudra smiled to himself!
He signaled with his eyes; ‘too much of herself; let not Brahma throw away the Vedas; she has to convince him of their truth!’
DEVI changed the topic. Philosophical truths flowed like a river drowning the Creator! He was lost!
SHE spoke:
“Do not ever question the authority of Vedas! O Brahma! Do not have doubts about the Truths mentioned there! Brahman is Existence! Non-existence is of many kinds; non-existence before creation like a pot is non-existent in clay; non-existence after destruction like a broken pot. Where was the pot before creation and where did the pot go after the destruction? The pot was existent in the atomic state. Existence is always there; only it is an unmanifested state! A pot is un-manifest before creation and goes back to its original state after destruction. So are the human bodies before and after death!”
Shiva gave an approval with his eyes.
SHE continued:
SHE explained in detail the twenty four principles.
SHE told him that he will be getting the MAHAT TATVA from Her. So he can create as he likes.
SHE produced a SARASVATI out of Her.
SHE told him that he will not lack any knowledge now.
SHE commanded the newly created Goddess to live with Brahma.
SHE commanded Brahma never to insult the Goddess in any way.
SHE commanded him to always honor and respect Shiva.
SHE commanded him to honor Vishnu.
And, SHE said:
“Now go and create worlds with four types of seeds. Already souls exist with subtle forms of gender and actions. Now you make them manifest by the power I have given you. Make them as before. Create beings with forms according to their causal bodies bound by time and action. Whenever you have trouble in your Creations Vishnu will descend down into the Creations and set right everything. He will destroy all the demons. You create YAJNAS suited to all different types of people. Take My Name in all Sacrifices. Everything will be successful. Shiva should be honored in all Sacrifices. Hari will be there to kill all the demons.”
SHE gave Brahma the ‘nine-lettered Mantra’. SHE assured Hari that he will soon be united with the girl of his heart. SHE praised him saying that he was equal to Shiva in status. Nobody should ever differentiate between them both. Both were equally worthy of worship. If any one anywhere insults either one of these Supreme Gods by taking recourse of fanaticism, he is surely bound for hell. SHE gave Hari a Special Mantra to get Powers. SHE told him that penance performed chanting that mantra will empower him to come to her.
SHE produced GOWRI out of her own person and gave her to Shiva asking him to continue the work in the world. SHE bid them farewell. They got their original forms after they left the Palace. They climbed the Air-vehicle and returned to their abodes.
VYAASA EXPLAINS:
BRAHMAN with attributes is SAGUNA.
BRAHMAN without attributes is NIRGUNA.
NIRGUNA cannot be seen.
NIRGUNA has no form.
That which is seen is perishable.
NIRGUNA is imperishable.
NIRGUNA is formless and cannot be seen.
SHAKTI who is formless is difficult to attain.
PARABRAHMAN who is formless is also difficult to comprehend!
They can be attained only through Knowledge and contemplation.
Faith is very very important.
The formless has no beginning, no end!
The awareness in everybody is Brahman.
The HE of the Upanishads and the SHE, the QUEEN of ALL - both are all pervading.
Without These Two nothing exits.
HE and SHE are always the SAME.
They appear like TWO but are ONE!
Contemplate on both of them as the Same Principle.
BRAHMAN is DEVI. DEVI is BRAHMAN.
There is a very subtle difference between both principles.
Studies and arguments will not reveal that subtle difference.
Dispassion will surely reveal the Truth.
A person who is attached to the form can never understand the Formless.
Like a man with jaundice he cannot have a clear perception.
As long as ‘I’ exists, how can you reach the Highest?
First know the BRAHMAN with attributes. Then you will know the BRAHMAN without attributes.
SHIVA EXPLAINS:
SHE is Supreme!
SHE becomes the formless BRAHMAN!
SHE again takes forms, varied and countless.
SAGUNA BRAHMAN is the Highest!
DEVI is the SUPREME!
SHE is with form!
SHE is the ‘I’ of everybody!
SHE is the power in everybody!
SHE is the SUPREME QUEEN.
SHE can be reached only through dispassion!
Have dispassion to everything. You are saved!
SALUTATIONS TO THE SUPREME BRAHMAN CALLED DEVI!
SALUTATIONS to DEVI!
SALUTATIONS to SHIVA!
SALUTATIONS to VISHNU!
SALUTATIONS to BRAHMA!
SALUTATIONS to ALL THE GODS!
SALUTATIONS to ALL SAGES!
SALUTATIONS to ALL THE KNOWERS OF BRAHMAN!
SALUTATIONS to MY OWN SELF!
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