Shakti and Shâkta : essays and addresses on the Shâkta Tantrashâstra

SHAKTI AND SHAKTA

The Cosmic Shakti is the collectivity (Samashti) in relation to which the Kundalf in particular bodies is the Vyashti (individual) Shakti. The body is, as I have stated, a microcosm (Kshudrabrahmanda). In the living body there is, therefore, the same polarisation of which I have spoken, From the Mahakundalf the universe has sprung. In Her supreme form She is at rest, coiled round and one (as Chidrfpini) with the Shivabindu. She is then at rest. She next uncoils Herself to manifest. Here the three coils of which the Tantras speak are the three Gunas and the three and a half coils to which the Kubjik& Tantra alludes are Prakriti and its three Gunas together with the Vikritis. Her 50 coils are the letters of the alphabet. As She goes on uncoiling, the Tattvas and the MAatrikas, the Mothers of the Varnas, issue from Her. She is thus moving and continues even after creation to move in the Tattvas so created, For as they are born of movement they continue to move. The whole Jagat, as the Sanskrit term implies, is moving. She thus continues creatively active until She has evolved Prithivf the last of the Tattvas. First She creates mind and then matter. This latter becomes more and more dense. It has been suggested that the Mahabhfitas are the Densities of modern science :—Air density associated with the maximum velocity of gravity; Fire density associated with the velocity of light; Water or fluid density associated with molecular velocity and the equatorial velocity of the Harth’s rotation ; and Harth density that of basalt associated with the Newtonian velocity of sound. However this be, it is plain that the Bhfitas represent an increasing density of matter until it reaches its three-dimensional solid form. When Shakti has created this last or Prithivi Tattva what is there further for Her to do? Nothing. She therefore, then again vests. She is again coiled which means that She is at rest. ‘‘ At rest”? again means that She assumes a static form. Shakti, however, is never exhausted, that is, emptied into any of its forms, Therefore Kundali Shakti at this

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