There are the great and splendid embodiments of the Divine Mother, her Powers and her dynamic Personalities carrying out the cosmic work. The Four Powers of the Mother are of such a type, already functioning in the vaster scheme of cosmic things. But they don’t pass through the portals of the birth that is a death, they don’t accept the “lamentable limitations”, they don’t climb up the Calvary of deep-rooted frustration, bear the ignominy of human births. Once the Mother told the Goddess Durga the magic of surrender to the Lord—and then only did Durga see, with utter astonishment, its marvel and its power.

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