22/09/2025
🌹 When kaali rises, Mercy Dies, She does not fights battles, she ends them!!! 🙏🏻
Durga (दुर्गा, IAST: Durgā) is one of the most important goddesses in Hinduism, regarded as a principal aspect of the supreme goddess. T he one who cannot be accessed easily", "the undefeatable goddess".
Durga is also known as Durgati Nashini, meaning one who eliminates suffering. Her other names include Chandika, Sharada, Ambika, Vaishnavi etc.
Associated with protection, strength, motherhood, destruction, and wars, her mythology centers around combating evils and demonic forces that threaten peace, dharma and cosmic order, representing the power of good over evil. Durga is seen as a motherly figure and often depicted as a warrior, riding a lion or tiger, with many arms each carrying a weapon and defeating demons. She is widely worshipped by the followers of the goddess-centric sect, 'Shaktism', and has importance in other denominations like 'Shaivism' and 'Vaishnavi'.The most important texts of Shaktism, Devi Mahatmya and Devi Bhagavata Purana, which revere Devi (the Goddess) as the primordial creator of the universe and the Brahman (ultimate truth and reality), identify Durga as the embodiment of maya (illusion), shakti (power or energy) and prakriti (nature). She is best known as Mahishasura-mardini; for slaying Mahishasura—the buffalo demon who could only be killed by a woman. In accounts of her battles with other demons such as Shumbha and Nishumbha, Durga manifests other warrior goddesses, the Matrikas, and Kali, to aid in combat. In Vaishnava contexts, Durga is revered as Mahamaya or Yogamaya—the personification of the illusory powers of the god Vishnu. Durga is typically portrayed as an independent, unmarried warrior goddess. However, in traditions where she is identified with the goddess Parvati, she also acquires domestic attributes and is widely regarded as the consort of Shiva. N ine appellations are (Navadurga): Shailaputri, Brahmacharini, Chandraghanta, Kushmanda, Skandamata, Katyayini, Kalaratri, Mahagauri and Siddhidatri. A list of 108 names of the goddess is recited in order to worship her and is popularly known as the "Ashtottarshat Namavali of Goddess Durga".