The document discusses the origins and nature of the Mother Goddess in Hindu theology. It states that Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva worship the Mother Goddess, who is the root of all creation and existence. She creates the universe through the interaction of different aspects of her divine power/energy. All gods are said to be her sons and derive their power from her. She is described as having many manifestations and aspects that take on different divine forms.

1. take great pleasure in telling the story
of Mahesvari, the MotherGoddess; Narada Muni, the
son of Brahma, pried out of Siva as to whom He
worships. Narada Muni asked Vishnu the same
question and was directed to Siva for answer. Siva
answered: We (Brahma, Vishnu and Siva) worship
Mahesvari, who is pure and eternal; she
is Mulaprakrti (root matter) and Brahman; We all
worship
her.
All three
are the
sons of
Mother
Goddess.
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2. Vishnus and
Mahesvaras in many universes (Brahmandas = Eggs
of Brahma or universes); they all worship Mahesvari.
In this Brahmanda, we three are the creator, preserver
and destroyer respectively. She is formless and
assumes our body forms as play activity. She
delegates the work to us but she is our Goddess.
She incarnatesas Sati, the daughter of Daksa and the
Consort of Siva, and anothertime as Uma, the
daughter of Himalayas and the consort of Siva; She,
in her partial manifestation, descends as Lakshmi,
Consort of Vishnu, as Sarasvati, (Gayatri), and
Savitri, the consortsof Brahma.
She creates universe as Sat (Being, True, permanent),
Asat (nonbeing, untrue, impermanent), Jada (inert,
material), and Caitanya (Consciousness empowering
life) and maintains them all with her Sakti made of
gunas. At the end of kalpa, she destroys the universe.
Brahma rests on the lotus flower coming from the
navel of Vishnu, who again rests on a bed of snake;
thus they have base to support them. Devi does not
have an external support; she supportsBrahma,
Vishnu and Siva; without her sakti, they cannot

3. create, maintain or destroy the universe. Vishnu
admits to Brahma that at dissolution he goes into
Yoganidra (Conscious sleep) as ordained by the
MotherGoddess after dissolution. Vishnu can
awaken from Yoganidra to maintain the universe,
once the Devi sets in motion the creative process
through her surrogate Brahma.
Before creation, there was no sun, moon, and stars,
and no day or night. There were no directions, sound,
touch, taste, vision or smell. There was no Tejas
(Light).
Only Brahman (and Prakrti = root substance in its
subtlestate), who is Being, Consciousness, and Bliss,
existed. Ananadamayi, in her will to create,
made Prakrti assume a form.
That form was Devi, black as collyrium. She had four
arms and fiery eyes. Her hair was disheveled. She
was seated on a lion and created a Purusa, Mahakala
with three gunas, Sattva, Rajas, and
Tamas. Mahakala had no consciousness.
Mahasakti expressed her Will to Mahakala (Mula
purusa) to create three gods with Rajas, Sattva and
Tamas; thus, Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesvara were

4. created by Great Time (MahaKAla). There was no
creation by Brahma yet.
Devi divided Mulapurusa into two parts
Prakrti by her Will divided herself into three entities
or Saktis: Maya, Vidya and Parama. Maya deludes
the Jivas (we the people)and puts Samsara (life on
earth) in place for the Jivas; Parama is the
Consciousness; Vidya, made of pure spiritual
knowledge, has the ability to lead the Jivas out of
birth and rebirth. Deluded by Maya, Jiva does not see
Vidya. Brahma, Vishnu, and Mahesvara become
subject to Parama and Maya. Vidya entity divides
herself into five forms: Ganga, Durga, Savitri,
Lakshmi, and Sarasvati.

5. According to Tantras and Saktas, Devi (Mother
Goddess, Jagadamba, Mahavidya, Mahamaya,
Bhagavati Durga, Supreme Brahman, Paramesvari) is
the Motherof Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesvara and all
living entities and the cause of the material world.
Because of grace of the MotherGoddess, Siva was
able to drink poison and live and Vishnu was able to
defeat the Daityas, Madhu and Kaitabha. Brahman
and Sakti are one and the same; Sakti is the manifest
Brahman.

6. The six Sivas (devatas) residing in six Chakras are
inert if separated from Sive (MotherGoddess). She
manifested as Light to Vyasa; that Light had the
brillianceof a thousandsuns and the beauty of ten
million moons. She wore celestial perfumes, brilliant
garments and jewels, carried weapons in thousand
arms, and sat on a lion. She also sits on a corpse
appearing with four arms and having a complexion of
dark cloud. She makes appearancewith two, four,
ten, eighteen and hundred arms on different
occasions. Her manifestations are many. She appears
as Vishnu with Lakshmi on his left, Krishna with
Radhika on his left, Brahma with Sarasvati on his
left, and Siva with Gauri on his left. All these forms
she took to erase the doubt from Vyasa's mind; she
was truly a Goddess of many forms.
Standing on thousand-petalled lotus, she showed
Vyasa, a great Muni, the Purana, Mahabhagavata, full
of sublime letters. Goddess is the origin of Sanskrit
letters and by extension letters of all languages.
Sakti Tattva is twofold: Mayasakti and Citasakti;
Mayasakti is the stuff of Samsara, while Citasakti is
Purusa and Prakrti from which come Brahma,

7. Vishnu, Siva and all living beings, and matter. They
are conscious and inert elements.
She is Avikrti, Prakrti and Vikrti: Changeless matter,
matter, and changed matter; She is also Being,
Consciousness, and Bliss (Sat-Cit-Ananda). The
saktas take pain to explain that Purusa and Prakrti
(Consciousness and matter) of Samkhya philosophy
are one and the same integrated unit and not two
separate entities.
Maya consists of three gunas; Sattva, Rajas, and
Tamas. Avidyam (ignorance) is maya with
dominance of Rajas and Tamas, while dominance of
Sattva in maya is Vidya, present in Yogis and gods
(Brahman included in this category), and Turiya sakti
is Mahavidya, pure Bliss. Mahavidya = Great
wisdom = Exalted Science = Pure Bliss. Plural
=Mahavidyas = personification of the ten female
Saktis of Siva.