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In plain words

Sri Ramakrishna: To have His grace one must please Her who is the Primal Power. She is Mahamaya. Deluding the world, She creates, preserves and destroys. She has kept all in ignorance. Only when that Mahamaya stands aside from the door can one go into the inner apartments. Staying outside, one sees only the things outside; one cannot know that eternal Being, Satchidananda. That is why the Purana says, in the Chandi, that at the slaying of Madhu and Kaitabha, Brahma and the other gods sang hymns to Mahamaya.