03/11/2024
Excerpt from “From a Hidden Stream: The Natural Spiritual Authority of Woman”
by Vajra Ma
A Time for Durga
Women—hear the call of the Goddess within you:
A TIME FOR DURGA
Myths are truths which manifest on many levels. Most of the
myths we are familiar with today reflect actual historical events
played out and depicted on an over-arching scale. We have seen
how many of these paint heroic pictures of rather despicable actions
to justify or even deify the unnatural authoritarian might established
by conquerors and oppressors.
On the other end of the mythological spectrum are myths like
the one of the great Hindu Goddess Durga. It illustrates what happens
when all else fails, when the paradigm of conquest and might
fails and opposites have lost their vitality to transmute into each
other. When the opposites are mired in dualistic opposition, only
the Goddess, the Feminine Power can resolve the situation.
In the myth of Durga the gods and demons have been in prolonged
battle, neither side gaining. The gods finally acknowledge
the stalemate, that they cannot of themselves prevail. They combine
their forces and call upon Durga, the Supreme Goddess. Durga
appears and grants their request to defeat the demons. She goes to
battle, serenely astride the lion, Her many arms, each equipped
with a superlative weapon. After decimating the hordes of demons,
she faces the final enemy, the leader of them all. Durga raises Her
spear and thrusts it unerringly into the heart of the demon.
The myth of Durga is a myth of our time.
The resurgence of the Feminine Power will provide the power
we need to pierce the demons of the modern era, spiritual ignorance,
rapacious greed and violence. The desecration and ravaging
of our Mother Source, Woman and Earth.
Durga’s victory blow is a direct piercing of the heart. The Great
Cosmic Mother asserts her supreme female power and authority,
the only power that can pierce the heart of the demon.
This is the time for Durga in every Woman.
[From a Hidden Stream: The Natural Spiritual Authority of Woman, by Vajra Ma, final page]
