DESTRUCTION: THE SPRINGBOARD TO CONSTRUCTION

[Ms Tercy Lonan]

DESTRUCTION: THE SPRINGBOARD TO CONSTRUCTION
y:a dðv:i s:v:üB:Üt:ð\:Ø Â:¹a-p:ðN: s:öesT:t:a .
n:m:st:sy:ò n:m:st:sy:ò n:m:st:sy:ò n:m::ð n:m:H ..
yà devã sarvabhåteùu ÷raddhàråpeõa saüsthità |
namastasyai namastasyai namastasyai namo namaþ ||
SALUTATIONS again and again to the blessed aspect as Durga, Kali the Terrible. Now try
to see Divine Mother, the ultimate Goal and Destination of all spiritual aspiration, the Divine
Mother who is one with the Para Brahman, Who is the origin and support and ultimate destination
of all creation.
We have dwelt yesterday upon Mother in Her aspect as Durga, Kali the Terrible, and tried to
see and understand how beneath Her terrible exterior and how within Her drama of apparent
destruction, She is in reality the all-compassionate and all-benign Mother who destroys in order to
build, who takes away in order to give in abundance, and who is in reality the one who ultimately
reveals Herself to us as the Light of lights, the Eternal Light of the Atman, after having helped us
annihilate the dense darkness of ignorance.
The very conception of the name Durga, the Mother in Her apparently terrible and
destructive aspect, is a significant thing to be understood. In the Saptashati the origin of the name
Durga has been given in one verse where we have it described that She, who saves us from all that is
calamitous, She who saves us from danger and trouble, is known as Durga. Because She saves Her
devotees from all sorrows, dangers and calamities, She is called Devi Durga. She being conceived
of in this peculiar aspect of an all-destroying power is not only capable of being esoterically
interpreted and explained that She destroys all that is undesirable but also it is based upon universal
experience.

[Cheryl]

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