Shakti and Shâkta : essays and addresses on the Shâkta Tantrashâstra

KUNDALINI! SHAKTI

manifest in radio-activity of radium. We have thus here again a positive charge at rest at the centre and negative charges in motion round about the centre. What is thus said about the atom applies to the whole cosmic system and universe. In the world-system the planets revolve round the Sun and that system itself is probably (taken as a whole) a moving mass around some other relatively static centre until we arrive at the Brahma-bindu which is the point of Absolute Rest round which all forms revolve and by which all are maintained. He has aptly suggested other illustrations of the same process. Thus in the tissues of the living body the operative energy is polarised into two forms of energy—anabolic and katabolic, the one tending to change and the other to conserve the tissues; the actual condition of the tissues being simply the resultant of these two co-existent or concurrent activities. In the case, again, of the impregnated ovum, Shakti is already presented in its two polar aspects, namely the ovum (possibly the static) and the spermatazosn the dynamic. The germ cell does not cease to be such. It splits into two, one half the somatic cell gradually developing itself into the body of the animal, the other half remaining encased within the body practically unchanged and as the germ-plasm is transmitted in the process of reproduction to the offspring.

In short, Shakti when manifesting divides itself into two polar aspects—static and dynamic—which implies that you cannot have it ina dynamic form without at the same time having it in astatic form much like the poles of a magnet. In any given sphere of activity of force we must have according to the cosmic principle a static back-ground —Shakti at rest or “coiled” as the Tantras say. This scientific truth is illustrated in the figure of the Tantrik Kali. The Divine Mother moves as the Kinetic Shakti on the breast of Sadashiva who is the static back-ground of pure Chit which is actionless (Nishkriya); the Gunamayi Mother being all activity.

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