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Devtaa Encounter Devee
[Umaa Sanhitaa, Ch 49]   Read the similar story "Greater"

The Vaidik gods, led by Indra, had won a big victory on the Asur, and were very proud of themselves. Returning from the battlefield, they encountered a mysterious form of light. They sent the god Vaayu, the god of wind, to find out what it was. The being of light placed a straw before the god of wind, and challenged him to blow the straw away. Vaayu found he was unable to move the straw. He returned to the gods, chastened and baffled. Similar things happened to other gods also, until Indra himself approached that being.

Indra saw "the goddess Umaa, consisting of existence, consciousness and bliss... in the centre of that mighty tower of splendor... she exclaimed, "I am truly Brahm"... Mahaamaayaa spoke, she whose form is the inner guide of all, the witness in every creature - "Neither Brahm, nor Vishnu, who is the gods' delight, nor lord Shiv, enemy of Pur, are entitled to pride before me in any way. What to speak of other gods? The supreme Brahm, the Sun on high, the syllable OM encompassing the pairs of opposites -- all this am I. There is no one higher than I... sometimes taking the form of a lovely woman, sometimes of a man, sometimes both, I am the goddess who assumes all forms... It is by my power alone that you have defeated all the sons of Diti."

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