Shakti first manifests as icchā, the desire to create. Subsequently, it works through its two aspects: vidyā-śakti and avidyā-śakti or māyā- śakti. Both of these are conscious principles— the former is illuminating consciousness, the latter, veiled consciousness. Māyā-śakti is composed of the three gunas -- sattva, rajas and tamas. It is therefore known as trigunā-śakti or kāmakalā, and is symboli
zed by a triangle. The māyā-śakti is the cause of the material world. Maya is not an unconscious principle; it is consciousness veiling itself as the shakti of the Supreme Being.
Sri Ramakrishna has explained this with analogy: ‘He whom you address as Brahman is none other than She whom I call Śakti, the Primal Energy’. ‘Thus Brahman and Śakti are identical.
zed by a triangle. The māyā-śakti is the cause of the material world. Maya is not an unconscious principle; it is consciousness veiling itself as the shakti of the Supreme Being.
Sri Ramakrishna has explained this with analogy: ‘He whom you address as Brahman is none other than She whom I call Śakti, the Primal Energy’. ‘Thus Brahman and Śakti are identical.
If you accept the one, you must accept the other. It is like fire and its power to burn. If you see the fire, you must recognize its power to burn also. You cannot think of fire without its power to burn, nor can you think of the power to burn without fire. You cannot conceive of the sun’s rays without the sun, nor can you conceive of the sun without its rays’.
“हरि ॐ तत् सत्”
“हरि ॐ तत् सत्”
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