Srimad Devi Bhāgavatam 1.5.2—Prayers by the Vedas
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2019-10-31

This series is classified Vivartha-vāda | Rāja-yoga | Suśupti | Viśuddhi-cakra
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At this juncture, seeing Śiva and the other Devas crying, Bṛhaspati, supremely versed in the Vedas, consoled them thus: ’O highly fortunate one! what use there will be in thus crying and repenting? You ought now to consider the means that you should adopt to redress your calamities. O Lord of the Devas! Fate and one’s own exertion and intelligence are equal; if the success comes not through Fate (Luck or chance) one is certainly to show one’s prowess and merit.’
42-46. Indra said: ’Fie to your exertion when before our eyes, the head of Bhagavān Viṣṇu Himself has been carried off! Fie, Fie to your prowess and intelligence! Fate is, in my opinion, supreme.’
Brahmā said: ’Whatever auspicious or inauspicious is ordained by Daiva (Fate), everyone must bear that; no one can go beyond the Daiva. When one has taken up a body, one must experience pleasure and pain; there is no manner of doubt in this. See, in long-past days, by the irony of Fate, Śambhu severed my head; His generative organ, too, dropped down through curse. Similarly Hari’s head has, today, fallen into the salt ocean. By the influence of time, Indra, the Lord of Saci, had thousand genital marks over his body, was expelled from Heaven and had to live in the Mānasarovar in the lotuses and had to suffer many other miseries.
47-50. O Glorious ones! When such personages have suffered pains, then who else is there in the world that dues not suffer! So you all cease sorrows and meditate on the Eternal Mahā-māyā; who is the Mother of all, who is supporter of all, who is of the nature of brahmavidyā (the Supreme Knowledge) and who is beyond the guṇas, who is the Prime Prākriti, and who pervades the three lokas, the whole universe, moving and unmoving; She will dispense our welfare.’ 
Sūta said: “Thus saying to the Devas, Brahmā ordered all the Vedas, that were incarnate there in their forms, for the successful issue of the Devaś work.
51-54. Brahmā said: ’O Vedas! Now go on and chant hymns to the Sacred Highest Devī Mahā-māyā, who is brahmavidyā, who brings all issues to their successful conclusion, who is hidden in all forms.’ 
Hearing his words, the all-beautiful Vedas began to chant hymns to Mahā-māyā, who can be comprehended by jñāṇa and who pervades the world.
The Vedas said: ’Obeisance to the Devī! to the Mahā-māyā! to the Auspicious One! to the Creatrix of the Universe! We bow down to Thee, who is beyond the Guṇas, the Ruler of all the Beings! O Mother! Thou givest to Śaṅkara even His desires. Thou art the receptacle of all the things; Thou art the Prāṇa of all the living beings; Thou art Buddhi, Lakṣmī (wealth), śobhā (beauty), kśamā (forgiveness), śānti (peace), śraddhā (faith), medhā (intellect), dhṛti (fortitude), and smṛti (recollection).
55. Thou art the bindu (ṁ) over the prāṇava (āūṁ) and thou art of the nature of the crescent moon; Thou art Gāyatrī, Thou art Vyāhṛti; Thou art Jayā, Vijayā, dhātri (the supportress), lajjā (modesty), kīrti (fame), icchā (will) and dayā (mercy) in all beings.
56-57. O Mother! Thou art the merciful Mother of the three worlds; Thou art the adorable auspicious vidyā (knowledge) benefitting all the lokas; Thou destroyest the Universe and Thou skilfully residest hidden in the bīja-mantras. Therefore we are praising Thee. O Mother! Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Maheśvara, Indra, Sūrya, Fire, Sarasvatī and other Regents of the Universe are all Thy creation; so none of them is superior to Thee. Thou art the Mother of all the things, moving and non-moving.
58-61. O Mother ! When Thou dost will to create this visible Universe, Thou createst first Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Maheśvara and makest them create, preserve and destroy this universe; but Thou remainest quite unattached to the world. Ever Thou remainest constant in Thy one form. No one in this Universe is able to know Thy nature; nor there is anybody who can enumerate Thy names. How can he promise to jump across the illimitable ocean, who cannot jump across an ordinary well?
O Bhagavatī! No one amongst the Devas even knows particularly Thy endless power and glory. Thou art alone the Lady of the Universe and the Mother of the world.

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