Nature has got this power, very extensive power, srsti-sthiti-pralaya, to create, to maintain and to annihilate. Such power nature has got, and therefore she is called Durga, Durgadevi. In Bengal there is great, pompous Durga-puja. That is nature worship. But nature is yasya ajnaya; she is working under the order of Krsna. We Vaisnava, it is not that we do not care for Durga-devi. Somebody, they say like that. No. We offer her all respect, because she is the agent of Krsna, but we do not accept foolishly that Durga is all in all. No. That we do not accept. Durga is the working agent of Krsna.

From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila 7.7 – March 9, 1974, Mayapur