Close your eyes.

Enter a dream.

Meditate.

All of it happens in darkness.

Look up at the night sky — the vast universe itself unfolds in darkness.

Every seed breaks open and sprouts only after being buried in the dark embrace of the earth.

Every new human life begins, quiet and sacred, in the darkness of the womb.

Darkness is not the absence of light.

It is the womb of all creation.

So tell me —

What exactly are you afraid of…

and who taught you to fear it?

“In the thunderous clash of the fierce battle, Goddess Durga, radiant and unstoppable, rode her roaring lion into the heart of Mahishasur’s demonic legions. With each swing of her gleaming trishul and flashing sword, mountains of slain asuras fell; her divine weapons blazed like a thousand suns, and her war-cry shattered the sky. The earth trembled beneath her invincible might as she, the Supreme Shakti, slew the shape-shifting buffalo demon Mahishasur, proclaiming to all creation: ‘There is no force in the three worlds that can stand against the power of Durga!’”

(Devi Mahatmya, Markandeya Purana)