PARASHAKTI

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prof laxmi narain (prof_narain)

 

Source and courtesy: Sri Ramana Kendram, Hyderabad

This article was published in Sri Ramana Jyothi,

monthly magazine of the Kendram.

 

PARASHAKTI: Primordial Shakti is the ultimate dynamic energy of

transcendental Brahmn, which is attribute less. But His Parashakti

has many attributes. While Brahmn has only to be cognized, Parashakti

can be worshipped with name and form.She is Divine Will personified.

Shakti creates, preserves and dissolves. She is also possessor and

controller of opposite qualities: Destruction and Death, as Mahakali –

Goddess of Supreme Strength. As Mahalakshmi, the Supreme Goddess of

Love and Delight, she lends grace and charm to everything divine or

human.As Mahasaraswati, the Goddess of Divine skill and Knowledge,

she is the fire fighter and trouble shooter for the entire universe.

 

Shakti and Brahmn are conceived as one except that Brahmn is eternal

and unchanging whike Shakti is eternal but always changing. Shakti's

creative force brings out and develops the universe, which after an

age draws back into itself to rest into the blissful unchanging state

of Brahmn only to emerge again driven by Shaki's infinite energy. The

supreme power, Brahmn, manifests itself in Shakti, the feminine

principle in Divine form.

 

According to Devi Mahatmyam, a part of Markandya Purana, to defeat

asuras, their formidable enemies, devas approached Brahma who took

them to Vishnu and Shiva. Through their combined invocation and a

fusion of their energies emerged a deity of exceptional radiance.

She was Shakti, the repository of infinite energy. Shiva gave her

his trident, Vishnu his chakra, Kubera his club and Indira his

thunder. Armed with weapons, and the lion as her mount she decimated

the demons. Since the demons could be defeated only after the gods

got united to form a common front and invoke Shakti, the story

underscores the value of unity and mutual cooperation.

(Source:http://spirituality.indiatimes.com)