Trimurthys Get Darshan of Mahamaya

After Madhu and Kaitabha were destroyed by Mahavishnu at the end of a battle that lasted for five thousand years, with the aid of Mahamaya, Parashakti, Devi told the Trimurthys,

'Now you can do your own duties of creation, sustenance, and dissolution without any fear. The demons have been destroyed.'

Brahma told Devi, 'But we don’t have the power to do this. Where will I do the creation? It is water everywhere; there is no earth. There are no Pancha Bhutas, no Trigunas, no Tanmatras, no Indriyas. Without these, how will I start creation? I need all these to create.'

Devi smiled.

At that time, a divine Vimana appeared. Devi said, 'You all get into this Vimana. I will show you something.'

After they occupied that beautiful Vimana, it started rising up. The Vimana reached a place that was not filled with water.

It was a beautiful garden with all kinds of fruit-bearing trees. It was not just a garden—there were mountains, rivers, birds singing, and peacocks dancing. There were people—men, women, houses, ponds, and lakes. There were palaces and Yaga Shalas.

The Trimurthys started wondering.

The creation has not happened. Brahma is supposed to create. He had just told Devi that he doesn’t have the material even to create. But then, where did this come from? Who created all these?

A king was coming out of a palace and was about to leave for gaming.

The Vimana rose up, and they reached another place.

There, they saw Kamadhenu under the shade of Parijata. All the Apsaras were there. They saw Indra and Indrani.

This must be Swarga.

But then, who created Swarga? Even Swarga is meant to be created by Brahma. Then, who has created this Swarga?

The Vimana rose up again and reached Brahma Loka.

There, they saw Brahma and his Sabha. All the Vedas were present in Brahma Sabha. Brahma was sitting there in his Sabha, in Brahma Loka.

Seeing this, Vishnu and Shiva asked Brahma, who was with them in the Vimana, 'Then, who are you? If that is Brahma Loka and Brahma, then who are you?'

Brahma said, 'I don’t know. If that is Brahma, then I don’t know who I am. I am completely lost here.'

In the same way, the Vimana went to Vaikuntha. They saw Vishnu there—another Vishnu. Then the Vimana went to Kailasa—they saw another Shiva there.

The Trimurthys sitting inside the Vimana just couldn’t understand what was going on.

The Vimana rose up again and reached the shore of an ocean—an ocean of nectar. An ocean of Amruta.

There were tall waves in that ocean. Even the shore was beautiful, with all kinds of trees, ponds, streams, waterfalls, birds, and bees.

Then they realized—it was not a shore. They were on an island in the middle of the ocean of nectar.

At the center of that beautiful island, there was a throne.

Not the regular kind of throne—it was more like a bed, like the divan we have these days. But fully studded with precious gemstones—diamonds, rubies, pearls, and sapphires.

Silken clothes were spread on that Paryanka (bed-like throne), resembling a rainbow of different colors.

And seated on that Paryanka was a beautiful, divine woman.

She was wearing a garland made of red flowers. Her clothes were red. Red is her favorite color. She was wearing red sandal paste—not the regular sandal, but red sandal.

She was as brilliant as innumerable lightnings.

Lakshmi Devi is supposed to be the most beautiful, but this Devi was a hundred times more beautiful than Lakshmi Devi.

She had a pleasant smile on her face.

She was holding Ankusha and Pasha in her upper hands, and her lower hands were held in Abhaya and Varada Mudra—offering protection and blessings.

The Tridevas could hear the constant chanting of Shakti Beejakshara:

Hreem, Hreem, Hreem...

A lot of beautiful maidens were serving her, attending to her every need.

The Trimurthys were wonderstruck.

'Now, who is this?'

They could see that her form kept on changing—sometimes as they saw it now, and then with thousands of eyes and thousands of hands.

Lord Vishnu said, 'This must be Jagadamba, Mahamaya, Adiparashakti. The mother of all Vedas—Veda Janani.

The Moola Prakruti, who absorbs everything into herself at the time of Pralaya and again manifests all of them at the time of creation.

We must have done some real Punya in the past to get her Darshana like this. Nobody gets to see her.'

The Trimurthys offered Pranamas to her again and again after getting down from the Vimana.

As soon as they got down, all three became women—the Trimurthys became women. Wearing beautiful dresses and ornaments, they approached her.

And there, they saw the most surprising, most fascinating, most wonderful sight they had ever seen.

In the nails of Devi's toes, they could see the entire array of multitudes of universes, with the fourteen worlds in each one of them.

Everything was there—trillions of galaxies, all the Devas, all the Asuras, all beings, movable and immovable, all objects, mountains, rivers—everything.

In the nails of her toes.

Even what they went through—the demons appearing, troubling Brahma, Mahavishnu eliminating them—everything they could see there, in the nails of her toes.

That is who Mahamaya is.

That is her greatness.

Ramaswamy Sastry and Vighnesh Ghanapaathi