Paraprakriti is that primordial energy which we know to be Mahamaya in Shakta doctrine as shown in the Chandi and it is the same as the Mother Creatrix in the Shakti philosophy. This is exalting the Hirnyagarbha in the Vedanta Philosophy which is the primal cause and effect from which the creation has come into existence. It coincides with the fundamental principles of the physical world also. But unfortunately, scientists in their relentless search for the fundamental basis of the Universe in the physical world are groping in the dark as they try to always explain one incomprehensible particle by another incomprehensible one. Quarks, the final hypothetical particle though existing, actually does not have any dimension and hence further progress towards unearthing the mystery of the creation has come to a dead end in the outer inverse. The power released by the subtlest particle is still held by them as material in nature. We all know of the power in nuclear bomb. Matter has changed into Energy which is still material in nature. Actually, power from the particle has at last entered the humans in their Prana to be precise and eventually it becomes one with Atman or consciousness beyond mind intellect complex. This power is not material in nature, it is of the nature of the divine, better say, the Chit Shakti, the power of the mother. Matter has no power of its own. That power of the particle in the objective world also follows from the particle of the divine in the mystic Universe. Let us look upon the universe as sacred as the Mother Herself and serve Her children. Swamiji has the feeling that the power behind the Universe is feminine and it is Mother. Our worship of the Mother Durga as the power incarnate points to the fact that this power is consciousness itself and never the power we see in matter.
The book entitled Durga-Mahishasuramardini- A Lesser-Known Tale of Tradition, Iconography and Worship sheds light on the other forms of goddesses who are the different appearances of the Mother Durga. The editor Prof. Durga Basu has intended to highlight their origins, way of worship and the like. Devotees of the mother will surely have a joyful read.
We congratulate Prof. Basu for her unstinted efforts to place before the readers this handsome edition of the Mother Durga.
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