Devishataka 5_2

5_2

Through whom, in the form of speech, the lotus-faces of Vidhi, of Brahmā, shine, look beautiful. What kind of [lotus-faces]? With the bees of the Ṛgveda (*ṛgālayaḥ*): the Ṛc verses themselves are the bees (*alayaḥ*); accompanied by the threefold division of the Veda. And which Devī is "compassion incarnate": consisting of compassion, this is the meaning. Likewise, which Devī "brings about the arising of maintenance, creation, and dissolution": he by whom maintenance, creation, and dissolution—protection, origination, and destruction—are produced, effected, is the blessed Viṣṇu, who brings about maintenance, creation, and dissolution; she whose arising is from him. The purport is that the Devī is the very potency of the Lord. Or else: she by whom the arising, the manifestation, of maintenance, creation, and dissolution is produced. (3)