The divine Goddess in her threefold aspect is described variously in the Purāņas. Thus she is the triple power of creation-maintenance-destruction, of Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh, she the Creatrix, the Sustainectrix, the Destructrix of the worlds. And then she is Svāhā, the oblation or fire-offering in the Yajna made to all the gods; in the utterance of Svāhā they all receive their shares of the fruit of the fire-sacrifice, Yajna. It is by sacrifice the creation lives and grows; in it it shall disappear when in the cycles of time it is ready to step into the next movement. Even if the oblation is Brahman, and the fire-offering is Brahman, offered in the fire of Brahman, made unto Brahman, it is indeed she who is all that, the multiple power of manifestation achieving whatever has to be achieved for the individual as well as the universe, for the entire creation.

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