Reading Notes E:Seven Secrets of the Goddess

Durga's Secret:
Domesticating nature without invoking the mind. She rides a lion and has a nose ring which makes her a little domesticated.She is Brahms, daughter. She wants to marry Shiva but they do not want her to get married. She saved baby Krishna.  
Durga is all the parts of all the gods. 
Aham verses the atam. We go to animal self. 
The gramdivity is more ritual. She is a rock and has a nose ring. The village is her body. They sacrifice an animal. They torture themselves for her. She was beaten so she revenged him.
Yeven sees a man bathing she wants him but they behead her and she is brought back to life. 
A Sati protects her husband with her chastity.
Seven women get pregnant by Shive they are all married and the women abort the babies. They turn into one person with 7 heads.  He brings death. Shitala also brings death and sickness. 


(Durga)


Bibliography:
Seven Secrets of the Goddess, Devdutt Pattanaik, 2016

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