Dasha Mahavidya means the "Ten Great Knowledges." The ten forms of the Goddess function not merely to teach us superficially or intellectually but to challenge us to look deeper.

The Goddess represents what is hidden, secret, subtle and sensitive. She represents what has to be searched and discovered. As the word she represents both the teaching and its comprehension. She is thus the inner guiding power. She represents what is to be known. What we are drawn by an inner fascination to discover. She is the mystery and allure of higher knowledge which causes us to lose interest in what the mind can know, the familiar realms of senses. The Goddess takes us beyond the realm of the known and the domain of time-space into the secrets of eternity-infinity.- Tantric Yoga and the Wisdom Goddesses, David Frawley

Yā devī sarvabhūteśu buddhi rūpeṇa saṃsthitā

Namastasyai  || namastasyai || namastasyai namo namaḥ || - Devī Sūktam

Salutations again and again to the Goddess who abides in all beings as Intelligence!