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'''Jagad Yoni''' (devanāgarī: जगद्योनि, from ''jagat'', world and ''yoni'', womb) is a [[Sanskrit]] term usually translated as the "womb of the world." According to [[H. P. Blavatsky]], however, the jagad-yoni "is scarcely so much 'the Mother of the World' or 'the Womb of the World' as the 'Material Cause of the Universe'."<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 46.</ref>
'''Jagad Yoni''' (devanāgarī: जगद्योनि, from ''jagat'', "world" and ''yoni'', "womb") is a [[Sanskrit]] term usually translated as the "womb of the world." According to [[H. P. Blavatsky]], however, the jagad-yoni "is scarcely so much 'the Mother of the World' or 'the Womb of the World' as the 'Material Cause of the Universe'."<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 46.</ref>


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Revision as of 21:56, 21 April 2016

Jagad Yoni (devanāgarī: जगद्योनि, from jagat, "world" and yoni, "womb") is a Sanskrit term usually translated as the "womb of the world." According to H. P. Blavatsky, however, the jagad-yoni "is scarcely so much 'the Mother of the World' or 'the Womb of the World' as the 'Material Cause of the Universe'."[1]

Notes

  1. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 46.