Kurma Puranam : 2 : Who is She?
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Romaharshana continued :
Then, janArdana dEva, bore the mandara in the form of a kUrma (turtle) with a desire to do good to the devas.
Then the Devas along with nArada and other mahaRSis, praised viSNu dEva, having seen that indestructible God, the witness of all, take the form of a kUrma.
Then happened there (abhavat), the beloved of nArayaNa, dEvI and that best puruSa, the dispenser of fortune, the omni-present one grasped (jagrAha) her.
Then Narada and the maharshis, along with s’akra (Indra (Hero, God, Astronomical Point, War Strategist)), fascinated by the brilliance (tejas) of s’RI, addressed the undifferentiated, omni-present one – Vishnu.
“Oh bhagawan, the master of the god of the gods, the one who contains all the worlds, Narayana! who is this Devi, of large (beautiful, lustrous) eyes, please tell us as it is!”
Having heard their speech, Vishnu, the crusher of the dAnavAs, looked at dEvI, and said to Narada and the other pure ones.
“O, the best among the twice born, it is through her only that I fascinate, take in (grasAmi) and throw out, the the entire moving world with devas (luminaries), Asuras (the mighty) and men.
Generation, dissolution (pralaya) and the coming and going of all beings, those who see all this and understand their self, they cross this bridge (to Me).
The twice born, Brahma, Siva and the Devas, become powerful, with this s’akti (devi) of mine! She is the thread that binds the entire moving world (jagat), that which impends all to action (prakRti) , whose self is the three gunAs (forces, ropes – satva, rajas and tamas).
Before itself in s’rI kalpa, She was padmavAsinI and from Me did She orginate.
(A Kalpa is 12 hours of Brahma. 2 kalpas make a day and a night of Brahma. He lives for 100 years on this time scale. 1 Brahma second = 1 Human Year! . In Kurma Puranam, Vishnu says that he fashioned the universe out his sakthi (energy) Mahamaya. Physics Nobel prize winner, 74 yr old Brian Josephson says that there was an intelligence that knew how to manipulate and make things out of energy, the way we know how to make things out of materials today.)
Four shouldered, bearing a conch, a wheel and a padma (lotus), covered by auspiciousness, as bright as a crore suns, the one who fascinates all the embodied ones.
Not just the devas, the fathers, men and Vasus, there are no embodied ones who can cross Her, this mAya (illusion) in this world (bhuvi!)
Must Read : Lakshmi Devi (to understand the physics, as well as the philosophy and the tradition).
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Also : And that dispenser of fortunes, (bhagavAn), who is always endowed with the six attributes of gnyAna (knowledge), ais’warya (wealth and prosperity), s’akti (competence), bala (strength), vIrya (valour), tEjah (brilliance), who is without birth (aja), who is unchanging, who is the Is’vara (the master according to whose will the world acts), whose own nature (svabhAva) is eternally pure, knowledgeable and free, having taken under his control (vas’IkRtya), his mAya (illusion), the mUla prakRti (the primordial force), vaiSNavI, whose self is the three guNAs, by his own mAya was born as if he was one with a body, with an intention to grace the world. (Sankara’s Gita Bhasyam)
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