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Posting on this forum after more than a month, have been preoccupied by few things and kind of lost interest in SKR. But I guess I can still post some stuff here. I was reading Myth = Mithya by Devdutt Pattanaik and came across few lines which I would like to share.
These words are for Gods and Goddesses also known as Purush and Prakriti or culture and nature. The lines are on holy trinity of Gods and Goddesses i.e Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh and Swarswati, Lakshmi, Shakti. I'm quoting the writer.
The male forms of the divine are associated with verbs - creating, sustaining and destroying - while the female form of divine are associated with nouns : knowledge, wealth and power. Gods do ; Goddesses are. Goddesses may be knowledge, wealth and power but it is God who are knowledgeable, wealthy and powerful. Thus the male form of divinity represents the subject- he who is sensitive to life and he who responds to life. The female form of divinity represents the object - she who is life.
The Goddesses is the object, the mirror, the world. God is the subject, the reflection, the self. Without her, he cannot know himself. Without him, she has no purpose. Both validate each other's existence.
God is spirit ; Goddesses is matter. God is soul ; Goddesses is substance. God is the observer ; Goddesses is the observation. God establishes artificial values ; Goddesses is natural phenomenon. God is the divine within all being ; Goddesses is the divine around all beings. One cannot exist without the other. Without either there is neither.
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