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==                                                                  Adi Para Shakti == Adi Para Shakti—the Goddess or Devi—is the Supreme Being who is recognized as Para Brahman. The Devi Bhagavata Mahapurana suggests that Adi Parashakti is the original creator, observer, and destroyer of the whole universe. It is believed that Adi Shakti, the primordial power behind the universe, takes birth as takes the concrete form of the goddess Lalita Tripura Sundari, who is believed to be the first and original manifested form of the Mother Goddess. Then she took birth as Parvati, the daughter of king Himavan and queen Mainavati of Himalayan, mountains. Parvati is the "saguna Swaroop" is the Great Goddess divided herself into the material Shakti (as Durga or Parvati), Vidya Shakti (as Kali), and Maya Shakti (as Yoga Maya). There are many legends associated with each form, but the form of Parvati is very important because, in this form, she marries Lord Shiva.

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