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Sītā Upaniṣad, three śaktis (Sanskrit Documents recension)
Sītā Upaniṣad, three śaktis (Sanskrit Documents recension)
Sītā Upaniṣad, three śaktis (Sanskrit Documents recension)
Canonical source text
सा देवी त्रिविधा भवति शक्त्यासना इच्छाशक्तिः क्रियाशक्तिः साक्षाच्छक्तिरिति ।
IAST transliteration
sā devī trividhā bhavati śaktyāsanā icchāśaktiḥ kriyāśaktiḥ sākṣācchaktir iti |
Close translation
That Goddess is threefold as seated in śakti: will-śakti, action-śakti, and śakti as such.
Reader-friendly meaning
Three powers named in the Upanishad. A later tantric handbook is not required to hear this sentence.
Meenananda editorial explanation
Will, knowledge and work are already the Ashram’s public life of puja, study and seva.
Sītā Upaniṣad, threefold śakti sentence, Sanskrit Documents recension. Sanskrit: public-domain Devanagari as encoded at Sanskrit Documents (sanskritdocuments.org). Foundation translations: CC BY-SA 4.0.
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English
That Goddess is threefold as seated in śakti: will-śakti, action-śakti, and śakti as such.
বাংলা
সেই দেবী শক্তিতে ত্রিবিধ: ইচ্ছাশক্তি, ক্রিয়াশক্তি, এবং সাক্ষাৎ শক্তি।
हिन्दी
वह देवी शक्ति में त्रिविध हैं: इच्छाशक्ति, क्रियाशक्ति, और साक्षात् शक्ति।