In plain words
Wondrous, holy for the three worlds, sickles for the creeper of birth, true friends, a springtime for the grove of the sages, are the deeds of Lord Viṣṇu.
So the Bhāgavatam said. How wondrous are the wonders of creation! Not everyone can recognise the wonders of this creation. Only those who have recognised the truth that Prakṛti is the form of the Paramātma can understand this truth, to some extent. As long as the ego of ‘I, I’ sits in the head, and as long as the attachment of ‘mine, mine’ stays in the heart, the all-pervading form of Sat-Cit-Ānanda cannot be recognised. We must recognise the truth that ‘I’, ‘mine’, everything is the form of God. Yad bhāvaṃ tad bhavati. In keeping with each one’s feelings, God gives the form of those very feelings. So it is essential that we believe all the objects in this Prakṛti to be only different forms of God.
Even for the creation, preservation and dissolution in this Prakṛti, these powers alone are the basis. In this Prakṛti they take the different forms of the power of will, the power of action and the power of knowledge, and show themselves in the forms of Durgā, Lakṣmī and Sarasvatī. Prakṛti is the Mother’s own form. In every land, people regard Prakṛti as the mother. People of any land speak of the motherland; they do not say fatherland. So in this motherland the principle that comes first is power. What sends forth in man, into his bodily, mental and spiritual nature, the power called divinity is this embodiment of power. Here are some examples to show the truth that the principle of such power is present in women too. In the Purāṇas there is a fine story that sets an ideal. Once Vyāsa grew angry. In Kāśī he reviled Pārvatī, who is Annapūrṇā. Then Īśvara drove Vyāsa out. In this separation he took a vow and built a new town of his own. He went and prayed to Gaṅgā. ‘Gaṅgā, take the form of the Gaṅgā and flow here, all around this new town,’ he said. Gaṅgā spoke. ‘Vyāsa, have you lost your mind? Merely because you hurt Pārvatī’s heart and prayed to Gaṅgā, do you think that I am one, Pārvatī another, and women something apart?’ All the women in the world are forms of Pārvatī. They are nothing but Her reflections. Yielding merely to the delusion ‘I am a man’, and out of ego, he puts his own feeling to a false use. But in truth he is not a man. He is made of Prakṛti itself. The silver and gold found in this Prakṛti, and many other precious things besides, all of them appear only as forms of clay, made of clay.