Unbelievably, we are on the fourth day of Navaratri already, wow. What is a little more believable is the fact that there are many out there who have been keeping up with this series, and I’m truly humbled.
Today, we are looking at Mahavidya Buvaneswari, the propagator of the world. Her name itself speaks her purpose, for Bhuvana refers to worlds and Ishwari refers to goddess, or queen.
Drawing similarities from Lalita Tripurasundari, Buvaneswari is widely associated with the power of creation where it is believed that she created the cosmos and elements.
Now let’s look at the fundamental five elements – earth, sky, fire, water, air and space. Out of these elements, space had to be created first, for it serves as a primordial support for all other elements to exist into being. It is also within that endless abyss that the seed of Hinduism, Om, is believed to be born from as a vibration. Space, as we say, served as an important ground for creation.
Buvaneswari, being the sovereign of creation, represents space in complementary to Mahavidya Kali, who represents time. Both these goddesses play a frugal part in one’s journey towards self-consciousness. To understand that, let’s divulge into the word space, first.
Space, refers to a continuous area of vast emptiness that is unoccupied. Putting this definition into context, we can imagine that space refers to infinite space that is ruled over by Buvaneswari – she is an omnipresent manifestation throughout the dance of Time, represented by Kali. While Buvaneswari’s endless chasm of space serves as a stage, Kali dance on it throughout as time, witnessing life and death.
When we embrace universality, Buvaneswari teaches us that nothing, at the end of the day, is ours to claim. The journey is endless, no one man is rooted to one spot at any point in his life. In the path of self consciousness, Buvaneswari opens your mind to infinity, to embrace that every creation has an end through and with time – love, freedom and bliss cannot be contained for they are boundless through the dance of Kali herself.
Buvaneswari sports a radiant complexion, almost red, akin to Lalita Tripurasundari. She is seated on a lotus, symbolising the purity of creation and her large breasts identify with a maternal, nurturing aura, illustrating that she is the Cosmic Mother indeed.
A rather short one today, but the options to rattle on are infinite as I realised from Mahavidya Buvaneswari and I am still recovering so we shall allow the possibilities slowly float through the cosmos today, albeit I do enjoyed writing this one because it draws many references of time and space into Mahavidya.
I hope everyone had been having a great fourth day of Navaratri.
Another day tomorrow, with the tale of another Mahavidya.
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