GOD AS MOTHER : Essence of Devi Mahatmyam-8 & 9. SRI SWAMI CHIDANANDA.
---------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, April 30, 2021. 07:22.AM. 8. The Puzzling Kali, 9. THIRD NIGHT : Destruction: The Springboard To Construction ---------------------------------------------------------------- This indeed is the content of the Durga Saptashati, the scripture which we read during these nine days. It contains thirteen chapters which describe this process of the Mother giving battle to, on behalf of divine beings, and destroys the entire array of cosmic nescience, of wickedness, of all that is a negation of the Supreme Truth. Each aspect of this negation of truth is depicted in this great scripture which is a wonderful allegory, by some particular demon; and these demons are given appropriate names and forms according to those aspects of nescience. And the thirteen chapters describe how Mother using numerous forms annihilates all the aspects of evil, of nescience, ignorance and this cosmic delusion. And at the end the Supreme Victo