|
|
Saraswati |
Lakshmi |
Parvati |
|
Affiliation |
Goddess of knowledge.
She is cosmic intelligence, cosmic consciousness, and cosmic knowledge. |
Goddess of
wealth, fertility, auspiciousness, light, and material and spiritual
fulfillment. Moreover, spiritual fulfillment translates to moksha. |
Parvati is also
worshipped as Durga and Mahakali as the goddess of power, war, beauty, and love.
She is the consort of Shiva, the destroyer of evil, or transformer. |
|
Abode |
Satyaloka |
Vaikuntha |
Mount Kailash |
|
Mount |
Swan or Peacock |
Garuda or
Elephant or Owl |
Lion or Tiger or
Nandi |
|
Described as… |
Maa Saraswati is
generally shown to have four arms, holding a book, a rosary, a water pot, and
a musical instrument called the veena. |
Mahalakshmi is described
as holding a rosary, ax, mace, arrow, thunderbolt, lotus, pitcher, rod,
Sakti, Sword, Shield, Conch, bell, wine-up, trident, and noose. |
Maa Durga is
described as holding a conch, discus, lotus, sword, bow with an arrow, Trishul,
mace, thunderbolt, snake, and flame. |
The Tridevi (Sanskrit: त्रिदेवी, romanized: tridevī, lit. 'three goddesses') according to Para Brahman, the supreme being, the supreme trinity consists of Lakshmi, Parvati and Saraswati, personified as Tridevi. They are either the female versions of the Trimurti or seen as the consorts. In Shaktism, these triune goddesses are the manifestations of Mula-Prakriti or Adi Parashakti.
Shakti is the power hidden or required to reach pure consciousness and is essential to create, sustain and destroy. Just as energy can never be created nor be destroyed but changes its forms, Devi took many incarnations to do different tasks. God is both male and female. But all different forms of energy or powers of God are with the Trimurti in the form of Mahasaraswati, Mahalakshmi, and Mahakali. That is to say, a non-dimensional God creates this world through Srishti-Shakti (Mahasaraswati or Sound or knowledge), preserves it through Sthiti-Shakti (Mahalakshmi or Light or resources), and destroys it through Samhara-Shakti (Mahakali or Heat or Strength). It is also seen that God cannot create, generate or destroy because God does not possess any attributes. So True Energy or Adi Shakti does everything on God's behalf.
Interestingly, in the Shaktidharma, the feminine Tridevi goddesses are given the important roles of Creator (Mahasaraswati), Preserver (Mahalakshmi), and Destroyer (Mahakali), with the masculine Trimurti gods being relegated as the auxiliary deities as agents of the feminine Tridevi.
Comments
Post a Comment