Adi Parashakti ; the Goddess or Devi ; is the Supreme Being and recognized as Para Brahman.

According to Hinduism, Adi Parashakti ; the Goddess or Devi ; is the Supreme Being and recognized as Para Brahman. The Devi Bhagwata Mahapurana suggests that Adi Parashakti is the original creator, observer and destroyer of whole universe. Hence Adi Parashakti is Param Prakriti. Parvati, the goddess of power is considered as her Sagun Swaroop. That is to say that Parvati is the truest material form of the Goddess, possessing the three qualities (Sattva, rajas, or tamas).

However, ultimately the Goddess Adi Parashakti is also considered to be truly spirit without form. She is the creator of the Trimurti, the Hindu male trinity. She is the Great Goddess, and therefore the source of all other goddesses.

Adi Parashakti means "The Eternally Limitless Power". That is, she is the Power beyond this universe. She is the active energy of God that both creates and dissolves the entire universe. The greatest difference between Shakti and Adi Parashakti is that Shakti can refer to the power of the trimurti or any other deity. In contrast, Adi Parashakti is referred to as the Power of Para Brahman. All other deities are forms, extensions and manifestations of her. She is the active energy to create and destroy.

Devi Bhagawata Purana describes her as Param Prakrti. Adi Parashakti is often mistaken for Shakti. Mother Adi Parashakti is spirit without form. Shakti refers to power or material energy of the Trimurtis or other deities. She is present in everything we see. She is represented in plants, the animals, the birds, the sea, the sky and the holy river. Thus Mother is Shakti , Power who drives this world. It is said that she is the mother of the mankind. ParaShakti is made to appear as saguna form for the purposes of expression and visibility to her children. It is the same with art and sculptures.

For instance, Goddess Parvati is a saguna manifestation Mother Adi Parashakti possessing gunas. To assign the role in the Universe, in Devi Bhagavatam, Mother tells the Trimurthis -

‘I am Adi Parashakti, goddess Bhuvaneshvari. I am the owner of this universe. I am the Absolute Reality. I am dynamic in feminine form and static in masculine form. You are three parts of me. You all are my partial expansions. You have appeared to govern the universe under my jurisdiction. You are the masculine form of Absolute Reality, while I am the feminine form of that Reality. I am beyond form, beyond everything, and all the powers of God are contained within me. You will admit that I am the Eternally Limitless Power.’

Thereafter Parashakti assigns each Deity their respective roles. Thus Mother rules the three lokas and performs the material tasks of the Trimurtis.

Jai Maa Adi Parashakti 🔱🕉♥️🔱🕉♥️🕉🔱♥️🕉🔱🕉♥️🕉🔱♥️🕉