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There are many, many more than ten ways to reach Godhood.
However, the Dasa Mahavidyas
are the ten most important ways.
All powers of God are manifest in man, whether one realizes it or not. If you realize God you become God. Otherwise, you continue to believe that you are not God, and so, search for Godhood, outside of yourself. And you will never reach, because the direction is wrong. As long as you are moving along the circle, you will never reach the center. Kalii, Tara, Sundari, Bhuvana, Bhairavi, Chandi, Dhumavathi, Bhagala, Matangi, Kamala are the names for the ten paths. The ultimate goal is the same in each case; integration of all forms into one Godhood, which is identical with the self. All these names are feminine, and the one from whom all powers emanate is God oneself. God enjoys his powers. He owns them. You can own them too, by realizing the truth of the statement that you are God, through experience. There are obstacles to this realization, whose prime nature consists of two types of ignorance. The first is not seeing your true nature as that of God identity. The second is the wrong assumption of human nature which makes you see many things where there is in reality only one thing. That one thing which exists is consciousness. All forms, all space, all time, all materials, are merely forms of consciousness. That is not light, but it lights up everything for God to see. By it, objects like sun, moon, stars, fire, etc. shine. It is your, mine, everyone's consciousness that is the light of lights. Take away that light and the world ceases to be. The ignorance which creates the illusion of many is a creation of the limited ego, a mental object. The structure of the ego can be analyzed to have the following components - pity, doubt, fear, shame, aversion, class, distinction, and norms of behavior. These are the eight bonds which bind the unbindable consciousness, and their stuff is also consciousness. Once this is seen to be the case, the bonds loose their capacity to bind, and one's true nature is revealed. So, the paths to realization of one's true nature as the undifferentiated God manifesting in many forms and names as the apparently diverse universe, have to sever these bonds, which are the obstacles, which like shells of an onion are creating an entity out of vaccuum, trying to protect an ego which is not there. All that a man has to do to shake off the bondage and the misery which attachment causes is to choose not to remain bound. That choice {must} be excersized. That is the one step which man has to take towards God; God will do the rest. If you take one step towards Him, He will take ten steps towards you. If you sit and meditate, you will see God. If you sing to God, God will dance for you. If you dance to God, God will embrace you. If you embrace God, He will enter you. If you enter Him, He becomes one with you. God has no choice in this matter, because you are the God, and your choice is His choice too. So offer not your miseries to God, because he will do the same to you. Ask him not to do things for you, because he will ask you to do things ten times over. Instead, offer God your happiness, your song, your dance, your bliss, and He will do the same for you. Make efforts to eliminate your one bondage, He will come Himself and remove them all.
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