In days of yore, at the end of a Kalpa, Bhagavân Hari was lying, as a small child on a floating leaf of a banyan tree, and was thinking thus :--
- “Who is the Intelligent One that has created me a small child?
- What is His object?
- Of what stuff am I made of? and
- how am I created?
- whence can I know all this?”
“All this that is seen is I Myself; there is existent nothing other that is eternal.”
Bhagavân Visnu, then, began to think deeply the above celestial voice :--
- “Who has uttered this word, pregnant of truth, to me?
- How shall I come to know the speaker,
- whether that is female, male or a hermaphrodite?”
The lotus eyed Visnu was very much surprised to see that beautiful Devî, standing without anything to rest on that water; He saw that on four sides of the Devî, were staying
- Rati,
- Bhûti,
- Buddhi,
- Mati,
- Kîrti,
- Smriti,
- Dhriti,
- S'raddhâ,
- Medhâ,
- Svadhâ,
- Svâhâ,
- Kshudhâ,
- Nidrâ,
- Dayâ,
- Gati,
- Tusti,
- Pusti,
- Ksamâ,
- Lajjâ,
- Jrimbhâ Tandrâ and other personified forces, each possessing a clear distinct form, and endowed with a clear distinct feeling.
- hands of them all were divine weapons;
- on their necks, necklaces and garlands of Mandâra flowers; and
- all the limbs of their bodies were decorated with divine ornaments.
- “What is this?
- Is this Mâyâ that I am witnessing?
- Whence have appeared these women? and
- whence have I come here, lying on this banyan leaf?
- How has the banyan tree come to existence in this one mass of ocean?
- And who is it, that has placed me here in the form of a child?
- Is this my Mother? Or is this some Mâyâ that can create impossible things?
- Why has She made Herself manifest before me now? Or is there some hidden motive that She has appeared thus?
- What ought I to do now? Or shall I go to some other place? or shall I continue remaining here in this form of the child, silent and with vigilance.
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