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Power of Bliss (Ānanda-Śakti)
The second power: awareness delighting in itself, the joy from which a world overflows.
Ānanda-śakti is the power of bliss — the joy with which consciousness rests in itself. In the Trika vision, awareness is not cold or neutral; its very being is a self-delight, a fullness that overflows. This bliss is why the divine bothers to manifest a world at all: not from need but from the sheer joy of self-expression. It is awareness savoring its own existence.
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