Shakti Sadhana: An Obligation to the World

[Guest guest]

Well said Devi_Bhakta, Thank you.

 

I have been my believe that Sadhana does not confine in the

pooja/puja room. The real sadhana is out there in the real world. Our

interaction with others especially with the environment itself is

Sadhana. Once you have seen and feel DEVI, you see DEVI all around

you.

 

 

Om Sri Matre Namaha

Salutations to the Divine Mother, who is the Mother of all

 

Om Bhaktha Saubhagya dayinyai Namaha

Salutations to HER who grants all - round advancement to devotees,

both in the spiritual and the material fields.

[Guest guest]

Hi DB,

 

An excellent post...

 

Some two bits...

 

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"Devi Bhakta" <devi_bhakta

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Tuesday, March 11, 2003 03:12 AM

Shakti Sadhana: An Obligation to the World

 

> I've been asked before why I occasionally post on "societal issues" in

this Group, when it is supposed to be dedicated to "spiritual" issues.

 

 

That spirituality which is divorced from society, is not worth a fig.

 

> And today, again, I was asked about my earlier post on

> attempts to clean up the Ganga River -- I received an e-mail to the

> effect that this is all very interesting, but that if people wanted

> to hear about environmental issues, they'd join an environmentalism

> group, not a Hinduism group.

>

> So let me answer that publicly. In my opinion (and I invite disagreement,

if anyone thinks I'm incorrect on this) -- Shakti

> Sadhana, as a school of Hinduism, is distinguished by its *engagement* of

the world rather than its *denial* of the world.

 

You have used very interesting terms.

 

"Engagement"

"Denial"

 

Both suggest, an entity which believes it is engaged (in whatever manner and

for whatever objective)......... or is in denial (in whatever manner and

whatever denied)

 

In that belief, is the issue, ...........not in the activity of engagement

or denial, per se.

 

So long you beleive it is you who is doing the particular engagement or the

particular denial, there is a "you".

Which will have issues

And which is stuck.

 

 

>To

> put it simply (perhaps over-simply), Shaktas understand Devi, the

> Goddess, as all that there is in the three worlds. She not only

> grounds and transcends the material Universe, She not only creates

> and destroys that Universe; in Her form as Maya, She also *is* that

> Universe.

 

Absolutely.

 

The immanence and the transcendence.

Simultaneously.

 

The dance and the dancer.

A dance comes to be a dance, because a dancer is dancing the dance.

A dancer becomes a dancer, because a dance has come into existence.

 

They are not two.

 

 

>

> The Shakta, however, does not see Maya as an entirely negative or

> false phenomenon, as many Hindu sects tend to. Maya -- the tangible

> world and its attachments and desires -- is not simply a force to be

> avoided, denied, ignored and eventually overcome. It is the

> legitimate and true body of the Goddess, and as such Maya too (i.e.,

> the Universe and its contents) is a legitimate object of worship and

> devotion. (I'd refer you to purushaz's recent post #5413 for a brief

> and interesting restatement of this idea.)

 

 

 

The term maya, arises from the root term "matr", from which the word

"measure" arises.

 

It is through the power of Maya, that the illusion appears whereby the

"immeasurable" appears to have "measure".

 

When subjectivity-Noumenon, ..........appears ...............as cognizable

phenomenon.

 

 

>

> The most sensational applications of this rule -- i.e., the

> ritualized worship of a human woman as a manifestation of Devi; the

> 5M's of Tantra, the more extreme Aghora practices -- get most of the

> attention; but in fact, to care for the earth and the people in it;

> to give of your time and labor and money -- in addition to your

> prayers -- is, in effect, to take your sadhana out of the pooja room

> and into the street. That's not to discount the importance of prayer,

> japa, meditation; all the traditional. "strictly spiritual"

> components of sadhana. And certainly, many religions advocate and

> sponsor work for the good of society in this world. Shaktism,

> however, is the only religion that asserts that this world too is

> your deity -- and it must be treated with the same veneration,

> respect and reverence as more "traditional" representations of the

> Goddess or God of your choice.

 

 

The "wave" in the Ocean, has no independent existential reality.

 

Yet pick up a "wave" in your hand and all that you will have in the palm of

your hand,......... is the Ocean.

 

Phenomenon IS Noumenon.

 

As the Zen koan goes.......

 

First there was the rivers and the mountains.

 

Then they were seen as an illusion.

 

Then there were the rivers and the mountains.

 

 

 

 

>

> It's a tough requirement to live up to; but if you can do it -- or

> even if you sincerely *try* to do it, you will soon find that the

> rewards are greater, and the spiritual dividends more profound, than

> you might ever have imagined.

 

 

Then that's a calculated bargain that you are pursuing.:-)

[Guest guest]

In sadhana it is said where there is bhukti(enjoying worldly pleasures) there is

no mukti(salvation; realisation); and where there is Mukti there is no bhukti.

But in shakthi saadhana there is both Bhukti and mukti. That is the difference

between other sadhanas and shakthi saadhana.

Kochu

Nora <ashwini_puralasamy wrote:Well said Devi_Bhakta, Thank you.

 

I have been my believe that Sadhana does not confine in the

pooja/puja room. The real sadhana is out there in the real world. Our

interaction with others especially with the environment itself is

Sadhana. Once you have seen and feel DEVI, you see DEVI all around

you.

 

 

Om Sri Matre Namaha

Salutations to the Divine Mother, who is the Mother of all

 

Om Bhaktha Saubhagya dayinyai Namaha

Salutations to HER who grants all - round advancement to devotees,

both in the spiritual and the material fields.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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