Mahishasura Mardini – The Symbolism of Devi Slaying Mahishasura

“Inclusiveness is not a philosophy. Inclusiveness is the nature of existence. No other creature is able to realize this. They are all busy fixing boundaries.”

—Sadhguru

Mahishasura, who is traditionally depicted as half-man and half-buffalo, indicates the bestial nature in man. Because of the evolutionary process, elements of the qualities of an amoeba, an earthworm, a grasshopper, a buffalo, and every kind of beast that developed in the course of evolution are still in you. These are all compulsive tendencies. Even modern neurology recognizes that one part of your brain is reptilian. In the evolutionary process, the reptilian brain represents the stage of development that is dominated by instinct.

After human beings started walking upright and the human spine became erect, the flower of the cerebral cortex evolved over the reptilian brain. That is what makes you human. That is what enables you to think about the universality of existence and that everything is one. That is what allows you to be a scientist or a spiritual seeker. But if you go back to the reptilian brain, all you have are instincts of survival. The human efforts of education, spiritual process, and meditation are to move away from the reptilian brain to the cerebral cortex. This gives you a more inclusive approach to life. If you function out of your reptilian brain, fixing boundaries will be all you know.are seeing soil turn to desert. That means nothing can be cultivated there. So, protecting the soil for the future generations of this land is the most important thing.

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