Only within humans She finds the possibility of being consciously awakened

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> Nicole beautifully framed her thoughts with these words: " We have

> the unique privilege to live two lives in one, one material, one

> spiritual, let's enjoy it fully. " i would want to copy it and

> say " We have the priceless privilege to live with two Divine

> Mothers, one physically without, one spiritually within, let's

> enjoy it fully. " By that i mean no disrespect to our own mothers

> and Mother Earth. The Divine Feminine is indeed raising us humans

> in all Her forms - let's enjoy them fully!

>

 

The follower of Sakthism, the worshipper of Shakti, is called Shakta.

His conception of the Goddess is described in the Shakti Tantra

Shastras, i.e., the holy scriptures of Sakthism, often in a very

poetical way. Whereas we speak of Mother Nature only in a comparative

manner, for the Shakta it is absolute reality. Nature is Her body.

Her presence is personally felt by him, when he is standing on the

fertile ground of the earth; he touches Her life in the blossoms of

the pure lotus-flower. She animates all living creatures. His own

body is a part of Her great body. Worshipping Her in all Her

different forms, he will find Her light, too, within his mind and

consciousness. Thus, to the Shakta the whole universe of mind and

matter reveals itself in its unity; he see before him Her great body

which he adores; Her sacred feet, Her heart, Her mind.

 

It might be useful to describe this poetical view, which is at once

physical and transcendental, by means of another diagram. We may for

this purpose represent matter and mind by two circles , which

intersect each other.

 

Where they intersect, there is Shakti, so to speak, in Herself. But

Her influence, Her being spreads into the whole realm of matter as

well as that of mind. Nowhere is She absent, but Her presence is less

distinct, is somehow veiled in those parts, which are further from

the centre, where She is in Herself. Thus, for the sake of linear

explanation, the mineral world--the solid matter--would have to be

situated the furthest from Her, because there, as for instance in

stone, she--Life Herself--is, much veiled, stone to the ordinary

human view appearing to be dead. Nearer to Her is the realm of

plants, where, with their growing and blossoming, She already becomes

more apparent.... Then, in due order with regard to Her would come

the world of animals, which being animated have within their life--

although perhaps still unconsciously--some access to Her. Lastly,

within the highly developed organism of man She, for the first time,

is inherent in her essential being. There She finds the possibility

of being consciously awakened, so that she appears to him, who is

looking and striving for her, in Her true nature as Shakti herself.

 

The Indian Religion of the Goddess Shakti

DR. HANS KOESTER