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first of all as we all know Hinduism is always recognized that female are equal in in spiritual
matters as the male there's no inequality now this is visible because the first ever image
of Ultimate Reality was as female in the industry Indus Valley Civilization so we have always given
you know full dignity to women kind in our prophets used to be men as well as as women
so that we have done but now in the way we depict our gods and goddesses we give different if you
like you know we project different aspirations on different gods and goddesses for example the idea
that oh you require God in the role of a Creator we say Brahma oh God like a preserver helper we
say Vishnu or say Shiva who's creating preserving and destroying Etc so we give different roles
and different you know if you like spre human respiration Pro you know kind of projected on a
super personality and giving them different names and titles and so on forms now what about female
deities now you see we will find normally with a male dear deal whether it's Vishnu we'll have a
female console please be careful don't call them wives they're not wives in the ordinary sense you
call them consort means Royal Companion so with the idea of Vishnu we get the idea of Lakshmi
ji as the Royal Companion what's that what are the features that kind of attract us toward the
idea of Lakshmi these are all human beings have this kind of desire for wealth of course we all
want to be you know to have to be able to earn enough money so wealth the second thing that
human beings like is to be beautiful you know to Aesthetics so we say the idea of God is is
someone who can give us money or give us wealth as well as Beauty wealth and Beauty so the idea of
in the human aspiration of projecting the idea of you know wealth and Beauty we say Lakshmi ji
the female companion of Vishnu then we say okay what about Saraswati we say the female companion
of Brahma we say Saraswati this is a nice way of saying it now the aspirations we hear the
people you know we project on the idea of Salas but they are as follows we say Saraswati is the
mother of learning education Aesthetics art music dance so all this we say all the aspirations we
have we project it on Saraswati as the mother goddess who can give us knowledge art music
Etc so projection of mother goddess is The Giver of art music you know and learning is Saraswati
now what about Parvati this is the most potent image before I talk about Durga the idea of female
deity who will conquer evil doers or who will kind of in a way curtail they will do worse is the idea
of Durga she is the one who will remove the the evil people in this world so she's shown you know
with all these weapons and you know sitting on a lion or a tiger very Fierce looking mother goddess
because she's not out to give you know lotus flowers to everybody she's out to destroy the
evil doers so she's shown in a very Fierce mode that is the idea of Durga then what about Kali
we say the Ultimate Reality when you project it as the one who will demolish the creation completely
come bring it to an end is Kali there were College derived from the root color time so we're seeing
basically the idea of time is the old Destroyer he can be best projected as a female god it's called
Kali so please be aware of the meaning of the word Kali from the word kala time is the old Destroyer
then we'd come to the the consort of Shiva this is the most endearing for me I find this image
the best one here they say shiva's concert is Parvati now parvat is shown as an ordinary
woman no forearms nothing no weapons nothing in a way that is telling greater Humanity that
all the women that we come across are if you like manifestation of Parvati the most important image
of mother goddess is Parvati not Lakshmi not Durga not Saraswati Parvati shown as an ordinary woman
and yet is the the heart of the power of Shiva so the idea of Shakti is the power that creates
the universe Creations manifest the universe is Parvati Shakti so these are this is how we
give different roles to the different female deities that we we cannot subscribe to foreign
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