Sacred Learning
Nonduality in Śākta Revelation
One real named Lalitā; Devī as one and world-formed.
One real named Lalitā; Devī as one and world-formed.
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Bahvṛca Upaniṣad 5 (Sanskrit Documents numbering)
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She herself is the ātman; what is other than that is untrue, not-self. Therefore this is the knowing of Brahman, freed from the arts of being and non-being: the wave of sat-cit-ānanda, Mahātripurasundarī, entering outer and inner, shining as one. The one real named Lalitā is the undivided, secondless, highest Brahman.
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Bahvṛca Upaniṣad 7 (Sanskrit Documents numbering)
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It is spoken as ‘prajñānaṃ brahma’ or as ‘ahaṃ brahmāsmi’. It is spoken as ‘tat tvam asi’. It is spoken as ‘ayam ātmā brahma’ or as ‘brahmaiva aham asmi’.
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Devī Upaniṣad 17 (Sanskrit Documents numbering)
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Her own form even Brahmā and the rest do not know — therefore She is called unknowable. She has no end — therefore endless. She cannot be grasped — therefore unmarkable. Her birth is not found — therefore unborn. She alone is everywhere — therefore One. She alone is world-formed — therefore also not-one.