Navaratri - Significance of Tridevi
Celebrate TriDevi Puja at Chinmaya Saraswati Ashram
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The Tridevi (three goddesses) is a concept in Hinduism joining the three consorts of the Trimurti, or the Great Trinity. This union is personified by the forms of the Hindu Goddesses, Saraswati, Lakshmi, and Parvati. In Shaktism, these deities are the manifestations of Shakti, the Divine Mother.
In the Navaratri
("nine nights") festival, "the Goddess is worshiped in three forms.
During the first three nights, Durga or Parvati is revered, then Lakshmi
on the fourth, fifth and sixth nights, and finally Saraswati until the
ninth night."
Saraswati is the goddess of learning, arts, and cultural fulfillment, as well as consort of Brahmā, the creator. She is cosmic intelligence, cosmic consciousness, and cosmic knowledge.
Lakshmi is the goddess of wealth, fertility, and material fulfillment, as well as consort of Vishnu,
the maintainer or preserver. However, Lakshmi does not signify mere
material wealth, but also abstract prosperity, such as glory,
magnificence, joy, exaltation, and greatness.
Parvati, or in her demon-fighting aspect, Durga, is the goddess of power, love, and spiritual fulfillment, as well as consort of Śhiva,
the destroyer or transformer. She also represents the transformational
power of divinity, the power that dissolves the multiplicity of the Hindu gods into their unity.
