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Shakti, power or force is the aspect of intensity, quantitative, of being
while inseparable from it is the aspect of consciousness, qualitative, or Shiva.
Shakti is feminine to the aspect of consciousness, which is masculine.
It makes the connection between the infinite and the finite.
It can be known dualistically as immanence and reflects the structuring, infinitely qualitative aspect of the consciousness aspect.
It is the primordial substance of all that exists (Adi Shakti)
it is the creative, fertile and regenerating power of life, embodying the Eternal Feminine.
Shiva without Shakti is Shava or corpse and Shakti without Shiva is an unstructured stihinic force.
Shakti is responsible for creation and is the agent of all changes or transformations.
Shakti is cosmic existence as well as liberation, its most obvious form in us being Kundalini Shakti,
a fundamental, mysterious and overwhelming psychospiritual inner force.
The Great Divine or Divine Powers Dasa Maha Vidya
is a transpersonal transformation system with tools consisting of:
- Yantra
- Mantras
- Symbolic iconographic representations – which can be used as a mandala or a meditation icon
- and an associated metaphysics.
These practices have the ultimate goal
supreme attainment, salvation, moksha, spiritual liberation,
in order to achieve the passage of being from the finite to the infinite,
from ignorance to knowledge, from what is transient to what is impassable,
From immanence to transcendence
starting from love, passion and concern or, even, attachment
of the world, which is still limited.
These are in fact aspects of the natural life of man which,
Although still a “man of desire”, he seeks limitlessness, salvation or … God,
starting from the experience of the Knowledge of the world.
Vidya means knowledge
And that will mean, in the end,
Knowing or living identity
with the Supreme Being or God, the Lord God or the Supreme God. That is why it is said that these Maha vidyas in number are with one end in immanence, in manifestation or in the natural life of man
And with an end in non-manifestation, in transcendence
or in God or the One Supreme Being.
They represent a complete system
These 10 so-called Goddesses represent “360 degrees”,
the full circle of human experiences that can lead the authentic
Seekerfrom immanence to transcendence. Therefore, regardless of the likeness of any Maha Vidya
with one or the other of the Hindu goddesses,
it is absolutely different from them
specific role it has in the
The system of the 10 Mahavidyas or Dasa MahaVidya.
They are different facets of the same one goddess
God in his feminine hypostasis and, therefore,
any of them contains all the others,
but it manifested certain specificities more or more easily. It’s like looking at a goddess from the left, from the right, from the top or from the bottom,
observing and adoring certain aspects first and not others
which are, in that situation, further and smaller in our view.
Shakti in various traditions
Shaktism and Shaivism, Shakti is revered as the Supreme Being.
Shakti embodies the active feminine energy of Shiva
and is identified as one of the 10 Great Divine Powers MahaVidya
or as Parvati, the feminine counterpart of Shiva.
David Kinsley mentions it as The “Shakti” of the god Indra as Sachi (Indrani), which means power.
Indrani is part of a group of seven or eight mother goddesses called Matrikas (Brahmani, Vaishnavi, Maheshvari, Indrani, Kumari, Varahi and Chamunda and/or Narasimhi), who are considered to be of the major Hindu shaktis gods (Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, Indra, Skanda, Varaha/Yama and Devi and Narasimha respectively).
The goddess Shakti is also known as Amman (meaning “mother”) in southern India, especially in the states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh.
There are many temples dedicated to the different incarnations of Goddess Shakti in most of the villages in South India.
Rural people consider Shakti to be the protector of the village, the punisher of bad people, the healer of diseases, and the one who gives wealth to the village.
They celebrate Shakti Jataras with great interest once a year.
Some examples of incarnations are Ganga Ma, Aarti, Kamakshi Ma, Kanakadurga Ma, Mahalakshmi Ma, Meenatchi ma, Manasa Ma, Mariamman, Yellamma, Poleramma, Gangamma and Perantalamma.
According to some schools, there are four Adi Shakti Pitha (places of worship for the primordial Shakti)
and 51 centers of Shakti worship located in South Asia.
They can be found in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Tibet.
They are called Shakti Peethas.
The list of locations varies.
A generally accepted list of Shakti Peethas and their temple complexes includes:
- Hinglaj Mataji Balochistan
- Jwalaji (Himachal)
- Tarini Country (Brahmapur, Odisha)
- Katyayani (Chattarpur, Delhi)
- Bhadrakali (Kodungallur, Kerala)
- Kamakhya (Assam)
- Kali at Kalighat (Kolkata, West Bengal)
- Naina Devi (Himachal)
- Guhyeshwari Temple Devi (Kathmandu, Nepal)
- Ambaji (Gujarat)
- Vishalakshi Temple (Varanasi).
Other pithas in Maharashtra are:
- Tuljapur (Jagdamba)
- Kolhapur (Mahalaxmi)
- Vani-Nashik (Saptashrungi)
- Mahurgadh (Renukamata)
Adi ParaShakti, whose material manifestation is Tripura Sundari, is a Hindu concept of supreme Shakti or MAHASHAKTI, the supreme power inherent in Creation.
This perspective is particularly prevalent in Shakta, the perspective in which devotees worship Goddess-Devi in all her manifestations.
Smarta Advaita is a branch of Hinduism in which Shakti is considered to be one of the five personal facets of God in panchadeva – the system advocated by Adi Shankara.
Quotes from Shaktisangama Tantra:
” Woman is the creator of the universe, the universe is her form;
Woman is the founder of the world, she is the true form of the body.
” Woman is the form of all things, of everything that lives and moves in the world.
There is no jewel rarer than a woman, nor a condition superior to that of a woman.”