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Recieved: 2001/09/02 08:41
Subject: Re: [K-list] to Percy
From: Druout

On 2001/09/02 08:41, Druout posted thus to the K-list:

In a message dated 9/1/2001 3:56:39 PM Pacific Daylight Time, schepATnospamucnsb.net writes:

> I, too am brand spanking new and don't what shakti means.

Dear Carol,

My *Eastern Definitions* dictionary says:

"Sakti (or Shakti), Hind. The eternal and Supreme Power, variously described
as manifest energy, the substance of everything, the all pervading, etc. In
the Vedas (q.v.) the word means "energy." In Hindu theology Sakti is a term
for the manifestation of the creative principle. However, the concept of
Sakti is derived from the hoary past and brahminized in later centuries. The
concept of the supreme power as female, a mother, a womb, a vulva is not
found in the pre-eminently patriarchal scriptures of the Aryans (q.v.) but
arises, to be made respectable by the higher castes, from the submerged
prehistoric mother cults of the earliest peoples of the subcontinent. Today
Sakti has been connected with, is identical to, the power of the gods Shiva,
Vishnu, or Brahma, the great Hindu triad. From the most ancient scriptural
times Sakti, under a variety of names, is intimately linked to Shiva, the
Lord of Sleep (and his various guises, especially Rudra). Shiva is helpless
without the fecundating divine energy, Sakti. The two, coupled in sexual
union, are the two inseparable forces that impregnate the universe with life
in all its forms. Without Sakti, Shiva is merely the Void. "He has no
visible form," the *Linga-arcana Tantra* states. "What can be expected from
the worship of nothingness?" Shiva (or Rudra), thus a corpse, cannot be
worshiped without Sakti. The Goddess is the source of all, the universal
Creator. Sakti does not need even Shiva; as eternal Virgin (Kumari) she does
not depend on any one, any power, for she is the One Itself as Power."

Sorry for the long definition! I got caught up! LOL

Love, Hillary

 


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