O Devi Durga! Kindly bless me with knowledge, fame, wealth, beauty, victory, glory and let me conquer all my enemies. Rūpaṅ dehi jayaṅ dehi yasho dehi dviṣo jahi Vidyāvantaṅ yashasvantaṅ lakṣmīvantanch māṅ kuru. And, she being the one in-charge, she supplies her devotees with material powers and bounties as per their desires. Therefore, in order to live here peacefully, people propitiate her by worshipping her on her sacred days. She is always there to keep a check on the people living here. She is in-charge of this material creation, a place of miseries. Ranging from delivering the souls from the dark mundane world to giving them varieties of siddhis, she takes forms as per the devotees’ requirement. She has number of forms as she is worshipped by various classes of devotees, as per their requirements and desires. She has a variety of expansions as per various shastras. She has two sons, naming Kartikeya and Ganesha. Family members of Devi Durgaĭevi Durga is the eternal consort of Sri Rudra or Lord Shiva as Devi Parvati. * She holds the snake, representing the beauty of destructive time. * She is armed with the 20 weapons, representing the various pious activities enjoined by the Vedas for suppression of vices. * She is placed between Lakshmi and Sarasvati, representing mundane opulence and mundane knowledge. * She is the mother of two sons, Kartikeya and Ganesha, representing beauty and success. * She crushes down Mahishasura, representing the subduer of vices. * She rides on the lion, representing her heroic prowess. * She has 10-arms, representing the 10 power activities. But, her primary form comprises of all the features of her expansions and incarnations. Decoding her appearance and the respective symbolismĭevi Durga is the prime fountainhead of her various forms, each having a distinguished identity from each other. As per Brahma Samhita (5.8), she is the reflection or shadow of Rama Devi, the spiritual Shakti of the Supreme Lord in his transcendental abode.
She is considered as a divine potency responsible for keeping this material world in order and decorum.
Birth of Durga Deviĭevi Durga has been glorified in various shastras like Devi Bhagwat Purana. When souls – begotten of marginal potency – forget the service of the supreme personality of godhead, they are confined in the mundane prison house, the citadel of Durga. Durga is possessed of ‘durga’, which means a prison house.
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