

Also, three eyes and blue neck are not uncommon too. Sometimes, she is represented with five faces as well as with eight hands sometime. She keeps a peacock always standing nearby her.

It shows her relation and association with the river. She is generally represented in the background of rivers, streams or water. She holds in her four hands a mala and Pustak, Pasa (noose),Īilkusa (goad), Padma (lotus), Trisula (trident), Sailkha (conch), Cakra (discus) and so on. In the images, she is generally depicted as a beautiful and graceful goddess clad in spotless white apparel and seated on a white Nelumbo nucifera lotus seat, which symbolizes light, knowledge and truth). She cheers in the powers of the mind as the supporter of pure wisdom. The white sari that goddess Saraswati wears symbolizes her general purity.

Goddess Saraswati doesn’t wear jewels and she doesn’t paint herself by the optimistic colors. To understand her one should go beyond the pleasures of the senses and rejoice in the serenity of the spirit. Without her there is only chaos and confusion. She is the collection of mindfulness which brightens up the creation she is the dawn-goddess whose rays dispel the darkness of ignorance. Saraswati Mata Images:- Goddess Saraswati also known as goddess of knowledge as well as the goddess of arts.
