Goddess Ontology:Language that transcends binaries...

The Goddess is all pervading... all pervasive. The language of Goddess Ontology across different cultures -be it Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Roman, Celtic, Norse, Mayan, Aztec, Inca, Assyrian, Native American or Indian - tries to reiterate this through a series of expressions which apparently look like binaries in the common parlance of the language. The Goddess is the Doer, the Deed and the Act of Doing....she is present in all of these. The language used to express her Omnipresence would, at first, seem like a mere play of words, but the metalanguage expresses something beyond that. The word "beyond" is extremely important to our understanding of the Goddess. In Sanskrit, the equivalent word is "para", which is slightly more evocative than its English translation.

In Lalitha Sahasranama, the thousand names of the Mother Goddess(which is supposed to contain  the principle of creation, sustenance and dissolution of this cosmos and all beyond that), She is addressed as Kshethraswaroopa, the One whose form is the temple, Kshethreshi, the One who owns/rules the temple and Kshethrajnapalini, the One who sustains or protects the Kshethrajna or the worshipper who is the owner of the temple that is her body. What this tells us is that while we tend to look at the external edifice like the temple and revere it as the Dwelling place of the Goddess, it is important understand that one's own body is her temple. Since we own our bodies, we are also kshetrajnas , the people/souls/minds responsible for sustaining these, and the Goddess is the ultimate protector, guide/ guardian.

The Lalitha Sahasranama, while categorizing these three as separate, is in fact, trying to reinforce the Oneness. Apparently, what seems like distinct entities - the temple, the worshipper and the act of worship - become merged in the plurality of the all-encompassing Goddess Ontology, which creates binaries in order for us to understand them in their essence - which is the Goddess herself.

What this, in turn, means is that we need to worship the Goddess as the Light that dwells in Our own bodies...It also tells us to safeguard the body which is her temple.