Every Deity Beside the Divine Feminine
Bala Kanda, Doha 54
Doha 54 · Movement 2 of 2
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The cosmic assembly widens beyond number. Satis appear beside Shivas, Saraswatis beside Brahmas, and Lakshmis beside Vishnus, each divine consort corresponding perfectly to the form with whom she stands.
Consciousness and power, deity and shakti, fill the vision without division. No masculine form appears isolated from the energy through which its splendour becomes manifest. Each pair reveals another face of one immeasurable order.
Sati beholds her own identity multiplied through infinity and discovers that even the form she borrowed belongs within Ram's all encompassing power. Multiplicity has become a hymn to indivisible presence.
God and shakti stand paired across infinity, all illumined within Ram.
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सती बिधात्री इंदिरा देखीं अमित अनूप। जेहिं जेहिं बेष अजादि सुर तेहि तेहि तन अनुरूप।।54।।
She beheld countless, incomparable forms: Satis beyond number, Saraswatis radiant with wisdom, Lakshmis glowing with grace. In whatever form Brahma and the other gods appeared, in that same form their divine consorts stood beside them.