Sacred Learning
Śakti and Consciousness
Śakti as awareness that fills outer and inner.
Śakti as awareness that fills outer and inner.
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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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Bhāvanā Upaniṣad, opening (Sanskrit Documents recension)
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One should contemplate the Self as an unbroken circle, covering the whole egg of Brahmā, self-luminous. Oṃ. The blessed Guru is the Śakti who is the cause of all. Thereby the body is of the form of nine apertures. The Śrīcakra is of the form of nine śaktis.
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Tripurā Upaniṣad 1 (Sanskrit Documents numbering)
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Oṃ. Three cities, three paths, seeing the world; here the unspoken syllables are set. Presiding over them, the unaging, ancient one — the greater greatness of the deities.