To destroy these demons, all Gods offered their radiance to her creation and each formed different parts of Durga’s body. The Hindu Goddess Durga is a unified symbol of all divine forces and is said to have manifested when evil forces threatened the very existence of the Gods. The ‘r’ refers to diseases and the ‘ga’ is the destroyer of sins, injustice, irreligion, cruelty and laziness. The syllable ‘du’ is synonymous with the 4 devils namely poverty, sufferings, famine and evil habits. The name ‘Durga’ in Sanskrit means ‘invincible’. Believed as the root cause of creation, sustenance and annihilation, Durga is the principal form of the Mother Goddess in Hinduism.
