GOD AS MOTHER : Essence of Devi Mahatmyam-10. SRI SWAMI CHIDANANDA
. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, June 14, 2021. 10:24.AM. 10. Life Involves Destruction ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. We find that this entire world and the life of man is pervaded by destruction. Without destruction there can be no life. The destruction is ultimately a part of a continuous constructive process. This philosophy of destruction can be realised even through an observation and a study of man’s everyday life. Annagatah Pranah refers to man’s life which is founded upon physical body. If we withdraw this food, man’s body cannot last. Let us take this process of nourishing the body and keeping up life. The very process of producing food is based upon a continuous series of destruction. We have first of all—if we desire to cultivate grain—to destroy all thorns, weeds and jungle-growth upon the surface of the earth. Then we have to break the surface of the earth a