The knowledge that men have, birds and beasts to have; and what they have men also possess; and the rest (like eating and sleeping) is common to both of them.
Look at the birds, which though they possess knowledge, and are themselves distressed by hunger are yet, because of the delusion, engaged in dropping grains into the beaks of their young ones.
Human beings are O tiger among men, attached to their children because of greed for return help.
Do you not see this? Even so, men are hurled into the whirlpool of attachment, the pit of delusion, through the power of Mahamaya ( the Great Illusion), who makes the existence of the world possible.
This Mahamaya is the Yoga Nidra, of Vishnu, the Lord of the world.
It is by her the world is deluded. Verily she, the Bhagavati, the Mahamaya forcibly drawing the minds of even the wise, throws them into delusion.
She creates this entire universe, both moving and unmoving. It is she who, when propitious, becomes a boon-giver to human beings for their final liberation.
She is the supreme knowledge, the cause of final liberation, and eternal; she is the cause of the bondage of transmigration and the sovereign over all lords.
She is eternal, embodied as the universe. By her, all this is pervaded. Nevertheless, she incarnates in manifold ways.
When she manifests herself in order to accomplish the purposes of the devas, she is said to be born in the world, though she is eternal.
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Jai Maa - Devi Mahatmya
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