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Power / The Divine Feminine (Śakti)

The divine's own creative energy — worshipped as the Goddess, and the power by which Śiva becomes a world.

Śakti means 'power' or 'energy' — the dynamic, creative force of the divine. In much of Hindu thought it is personified as the Goddess, worshipped as the supreme in the Śākta traditions. In Kashmir Shaivism, Śakti is the inseparable power of Śiva-consciousness by which it knows, wills, and unfolds itself as the entire world — so that reality is Śiva-and-Śakti, awareness and its own creative dynamism, never one without the other.

How it traveled

  1. Spanda-kārikā
    Kashmir Valley · 850
    explains
  2. Tantrasāra
    Śrīnagara (Srinagar), Kashmir · 1000
    explains
  3. Vivekacūḍāmaṇi
    Śṛṅgeri (Sringeri) · 1400
    explains

Key passages(20)

Tantrasāra · Abhinavagupta

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Spanda-kārikā · Bhaṭṭa Kallaṭa

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Tantrasāra · Abhinavagupta

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Paramārthasāra · Abhinavagupta

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Vivekacūḍāmaṇi · Śaṅkara (traditionally ascribed; authorship doubted)

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Gheraṇḍa-saṃhitā · (attributed to Gheraṇḍa)

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Gheraṇḍa-saṃhitā · (attributed to Gheraṇḍa)

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Haṭhayoga-pradīpikā · Svātmārāma

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Vivekacūḍāmaṇi · Śaṅkara (traditionally ascribed; authorship doubted)

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Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad · Vedic Revelation (śruti)

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Haṭhayoga-pradīpikā · Svātmārāma

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Spanda-kārikā · Bhaṭṭa Kallaṭa

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Vijñāna-bhairava · Anonymous (Bhairava Āgama / Tantra)

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Śiva-stotrāvalī · Utpaladeva

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Śiva-sūtra · Vasugupta

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Upadeśasāhasrī · Ādi Śaṅkara

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Vijñāna-bhairava · Anonymous (Bhairava Āgama / Tantra)

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Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad · Vedic Revelation (śruti)

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Bhagavad-gītā · Vyāsa (Yoga-bhāṣya commentator)

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Bhagavad-gītā · Vyāsa (Yoga-bhāṣya commentator)

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