Modules Include

• Academic Content 
• Spiritual Insights 
• Engaging Storytelling 
• Personal Anecdotes 

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Identify the structure, narrative frame, and literary significance of the Devī Māhātmya within the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa tradition.
• Interpret the three episodes and their hymns as a unified map of spiritual transformation — from divine slumber to sovereign awakening.
• Analyze the symbolic significance of the text's central demons — Madhu-Kaiṭabha, Mahiṣāsura, Śumbha-Niśumbha — as archetypal forces within both the cosmos and the individual psyche
• Articulate the text's core teaching on consciousness: how capture operates, how delusion is sustained, and how the Goddess enacts liberation.
• Recognize the Tantric dimensions of the text: embodiment, blood, initiation, subtle body
• Engage the Devī Māhātmya's feminine vision — divine immanence, shared power, ecology, and the Goddess-and-God relationship — as a coherent metaphysical and ethical framework.
• Situate the Devī Māhātmya within its living tradition — understanding how a text of this depth continues to function as a source of grace, guidance, and renewal.
• Apply the text's wisdom to the question of the life well lived: world affirmation, devotion, asceticism, and the Dharmic Double Helix.
• Recognize the Devī Māhātmya not merely as ancient scripture but as a living map for navigating the modern moment — its demons operative, its Goddess victorious. 
• Articulate the text's ultimate teaching: that consciousness, rightly oriented, is sovereign — and understand what the Goddess's promised return demands of the one who has heard it.