Devi Mahatmya

So that is why Arjuna is highlighted here.

And then the second question in that document was about Devi Mahatmyam.

And can we look at it from Navaratri angle, Madhu Kaitapa? Yes, absolutely.

I will share in the group later about Devi Mahatmyam that I wrote a while back.

How, again, each chapter in Devi Mahatmyam, what we can learn in the practical life.

Because all the Puranas, all of them are leading to the same thing that we have within us the asura guna and the deva guna how to decrease or vanish or you know destroy the asura guna within us and bring up the deva guna in us because we hear again and again ishwara is you ishwara is within you the godliness is in you vivekananda says every human is divine potential has it So it's potential in it, how to bring about it.

So in Devi Mahatmyam, Madhu Kaitapa is used.

And then Lalita Sahasranamam will say Shumba, Nishumba.

In one, the goddess Kushmanda smiles, and the universe pours out of her joy.

In the other, in the sixth chapter of the Devi Mahatmya, she makes one sound, and a general and his sixty thousand soldiers are gone.

Creation and destruction.

Joy and terror.

When you eat, when you see, when you breathe, when you hear, it is through me." It is more than three thousand years old.

And it is still recited this week at the end of the Durga Saptashati in many homes.

This is Dharma Katha: Season 2, Navratri.

Episode 80: Day Four.

She holds both.

She is the goddess who made the world, and she is the goddess who, in the Devi Mahatmya, drinks before she kills the buffalo demon.

The two pots are in the same two hands.

In her full image, she is often described with eight arms, which is why she is also called Ashtabhuja, the eight-armed one.