Shloka 35
Adhyaya 23 — Ashvatara’s Vow for Madalasa and the Bestowal of Musical Science by Sarasvati
तत्र मात्रात्रयं सर्वमस्ति यद्देवि नास्ति च ।
त्रयो लोकास्त्रयो वेदास्त्रैविद्यं पावकत्रयम् ॥
tatra mātrā-trayaṃ sarvam asti yad devi nāsti ca | trayo lokās trayo vedās traividyaṃ pāvaka-trayam ||
Ali, na tríade de mātrās (A-U-M) do Om, está tudo o que existe—e até o que não existe (no sentido do não manifestado). Três são os mundos, três os Vedas, o tríplice saber sagrado e os três fogos.
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FAQs
The verse integrates mantra, cosmos, and ritual: Om (and thus Devi) is the unifying principle behind Vedic learning and household/śrauta practice (the three fires), implying that right knowledge and right ritual both culminate in the Goddess.
Touches 'Dharma' indirectly (through Vedic triad and sacred fires), though within the Devi Mahatmyam it primarily serves as a metaphysical identification rather than prescriptive ritual instruction.
‘All that is and is not’ suggests Om spans manifest and unmanifest; the three mātrās map reality into a meditative schema, where triads in cosmos and ritual are contemplated as expressions of one mantra-body of Devi.