Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga

Parvati stands there unmoving, deep in meditation on the mantra, “Om namah shivaya.”

Tantra is the Goddess’s path, which means that it is for people who know how to use the physical and imaginal world as doorways into the ultimate, as well as for worldly delight.

Parvati’s question draws out Shiva’s insight. Her presence inspires him to turn into himself and find words to express truths that come from the place beyond words.

Where you place your will determines your life, your direction, your action.

a process of channeling that goes on in meditation, when we go into a state of stillness and drop a query into the heart. In that state, teachings and revelation and insight arise, which do feel as if they have been downloaded from a much larger field of wisdom.

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Passion is crucial, because without strong erotic desire there is no energy to be transmuted into divine bliss. The Tantrikas understand that sexual energy is also the force behind spiritual evolution.

So Parvati’s “No, mother!” moment is meant to reveal, first of all, that truly focused intention carries within it the seed of fulfillment. It is a truth that applies to every human endeavor.

The secret Parvati shows us is that the relational form of self-realization requires just as much conscious effort as to realize the transcendent self.