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Mirabai
Bhairava (Sanskrit: भैरव, lit. 'frightful'), or Kāla Bhairava, is a Shaivite and Vajrayāna deity worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists.
Bhairava
But the Tantric sages weren’t content with a generalized vision of energy-as-Shakti. They personalized it in mythic language and in an additional leap of insight, created a science for transforming human energy—by working with the goddess figures of the Hindu pantheon.
Sally Kempton • Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga
Om Hum So Hum
“balances the masculine and feminine energies and focuses on their combined force.” (Healing Mantras by Thomas Ashley-Farrand)
mantra
But the deities visualized are not merely token symbols; they reflect the essential power of the subtle body and its potential to clear away confusion and open the gates of wisdom. For this reason, the realm of subtle-body yoga is the realm of the ḍākinī in Tibetan Buddhism.
Judith Simmer-Brown • Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism
Kali
“The Buddhist practice is a gradual process. Look at how a flower blooms; subtly, gently. Nothing is cut off, or forced.
Its a path of transformation, like how ice melts under the sun to flow as water. We let go of things naturally as wisdom grows, like how the sun appears thru a break in the clouds. Wisdom has many functions, one is seeing clearly
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