281 BHAGABATI GITA Yet those, who know my higher nature, know, That I'm Adyasakti-Primeval Force. From me have Time and Space and Being sprung, Of all existences myself the womb. The, Mahavidyas* Kali, Tara, fair Shorashi and the rest, from me arise, To mock the sadhak, saintly in his own Conceit; to bless the godly, good, and true. The Zodiac, set with constellations bright, My little finger like a ring adorns ; And all the stars, as in the Void they roll, Make music but to entertain my ear. The tatwast-primal elements-are mine : Earth is my nose-gay; water, Amrita Dropt from my tongue; the sparkle of mine eye Is fire below, and fire in air and heav'n; Pavan's my breath, which fills the ambient space, And is the vital air of living things; While ether holds the secret bower, whence I send forth orbs on orbs to be the sport And play-things of my infant Trinities.
- Ten forms of the goddess Durga-Kali, Tara. Shodashi
Bhubaneswari, Bhairavi, Chinnamasta, Dhumavati, Bagala, Matangi and Kamala. The Sankhya philosophy starts from an original primordial Tattwa or "eternally existing essence" called Prakriti, a word meaning in philosophy that which produces or evolves everything else. Beginning with this original, eternal germ it reckons up 23 other Tattwas or entities, all productions of the first, and evolving themselves spontaneously out of it. Nectar. 1 § The wind.
