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the deity that represents the aspect of intelligence of the supreme creator is Saraswati. She is the goddess of knowledge and all literary arts including music, arts, and speech. She is also worshiped as the Goddess of thoughts of truth and for givings. Many hymns dedicated to Saraswati mention her as a mighty river with creative, purifying, and nourishing properties. As a water goddess, She symbolizes fertility and prosperity. She is associated with purity and creativity, especially in the context of literary and verbal skills.
Saraswati is often depicted as a beautiful, fair-skinned woman dressed in pure white often seated on a white lotus which symbolizes that she is founded in the experience of the Absolute Truth.
She is generally shown to have four arms representing four aspects of human personality in learning; mind, intellect, alertness and ego., holding in Her hands:
-A book, which is the sacred Vedas, representing the universal, divine, eternal, true knowledge and her perfection of all the sciences and the scriptures.
-A Mala of white pearls, representing the power of meditation and spirituality.
-A pot of sacred water, representing creative and prefatoryRoywers.
-The musical instrument called the veena, representing her perfection of all arts and sciences
in hinduism, everything has a SYMBOLIC importance. all the gods and godesses that make people consider hinduism polytheist are in fact, REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THE SUPREME CREATOR.
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