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New Delhi: Every year, Durga Puja fills everyone’s heart with joy and excitement. It is the time when Maa Durga visits her maternal home, leaving behind her husband Lord Shiv’s abode at Mount Kailash. People celebrate this occasion with much devotion and grandeur. Artists make massive and gorgeous Maa Durga idols, which are placed at various breathtakingly beautiful pandals. And during the pandal hopping, these Durga idols with their mesmerising eyes, face, and headgear gear along with towering pandals, enchant the visitors.
Usually, everywhere we see Maa Durga sitting on a lion, killing Demon King Mahishasur. Idols of Lakshmi, Saraswati, Ganesh and Kartikeya are placed near her. But many of us may not have noticed a minute detail, which is a tiny spider, just below the bindi of Maa Durga. It is specific to the Dak or the Daker Saaj style of idols. Read further to know about the meaning behind the existence of this creature on the idol.
The spider’s web signifies Mahamaya or the supreme illusion or the divine feminine that is embodied by the spider. The spider weaves the net and spreads it out, but it never gets entangled in it. Maa Durga also creates an illusion, but it never consumes her and remains under control.
The spider’s web embodies the entanglement in worldly desires and the fragile existence of human beings and other creatures in the world in Hinduism. Besides, the spider’s web also symbolises the delicate balance people search for, reflecting both life’s complexities and the pursuit of spiritual clarity beyond attachments.
This Durga Puja 2025, as you stroll through various pandals, do notice the tiny spider below Maa Durga’s bindi. It is a reminder of the meaning the spider’s web embodies.
