Reading Notes: Seven Secrets of the Goddess Durga Part A

 The Video that I choose to take notes on is called “Seven Secrets of the Goddess”. The eleventh and twelfth part of the video is called Durga Secret. It was a really interesting video I got to learn a lot of stuff in this video about Goddess Durga and how do people see Durga as a Goddess. It also talks about why Durga is seen this way. There are multiple parts in this video that I liked and my first favorite part of this video is starts of the video where they describe how a male God offering is different during ritual or puja and how female goddess offering is different during the ritual. The offering the male God gets such as Vishnu are food, flower, leaves, lamps, and incense, but the offering the female goddess gets such as Durga is Haldi (turmeric), Kunku (red power), Kajal (Kohl), a pieces of cloth to serve as her upper garment the choli (blouse), the chundri (veil), and the chadar (shawl). They do that because they want to cower up the Goddess so she would look more like Gauri and less Kali. I didn’t know that they did that because of this reason so it was interesting.

Another interesting part that I found in this video is how the Goddess Durga is made. The story goes like this when Mahishasura the buffalo demon king declared war in all three realms and when he fought Indra the king of heaven and couldn’t defeat him so he went to Lord Brahma for help and Lord Brahma went to ask help for Lord Vishnu, and Lord Vishnu went to get help from Lord Mahesh and he went to get help from his wife because only she could defeat that demon. And to make Durga all the Gods release the Goddess from their bodies and merge them into Parvati and that how she becomes Goddess Durga.


 This book was written by Devdutt Pattanaik, The title of the Video is Seven Secrets of the Goddess Durga Part A. Link

Here is the picture of Durga slaying the Deamon. Link

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