Shakti
May 26, 2019

STOTRA OF PARASHAKTI

namaḥ paradevatāyai mātarme madhukaiṭabhaghni mahiṣaprāṇāpahārodyame helānirjitadhūmralocanavadhe he caṇḍamuṇḍārdini | niśśeṣīkṛtaraktabījadanuje nitye niśumbhāpahe śumbhadhvaṃsini saṃharāśu duritaṃ durge namaste.aṃbike || aṣṭau bhujāṅgīṃ mahiṣasya mardinīṃ saśaṅkhacakrāṃ śaraśūladhāriṇīm | tāṃ divyayogīṃ sahajātavedasīṃ durgāṃ sadā śaraṇamahaṃ prapadye || mahiṣamastakanṛttavinodana- sphuṭaraṇanmaṇinūpuramekhalā | jananarakṣaṇamokṣavidhāyinī jayatu śumbhaniśumbhaniṣūdinī || brahmāṇī kamalendusaumyavadanā māheśvarī līlayā kaumārī ripudarpanāśanakarī cakrāyudhā vaiṣṇavī | vārāhī ghanaghoraghargharamukhī daṃṣṭrī ca vajrāyudhā cāmuṇḍā gaṇanātharudrasahitā rakṣantu māṃ mātaraḥ || uddhatau madhukaiṭabhau mahiṣāsuraṃ ca nihatya taṃ dhūmralocanacaṇḍamuṇḍaka raktabījamukhāṃśca tān | duṣṭaśumbhaniśumbhamardini nanditāmaravandite viṣṭapatrayatuṣṭikāriṇi bhadrakāli namo.astu te || Photo: Ugrachandi, Bhaktapur, Kathmandu lakṣmīpradānasamaye navavidrumābhāṃ vidyāpradānasamaye śaradinduśubhrām | vidveṣivargavijaye.api tamālanīlāṃ devīṃ trilokajananīṃ śaraṇaṃ prapadye || candrahāsaṃ triśūlaṃ ca śaṅkhacakragadāstathā | dhanurbāṇaṃ ca…
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Shakti
October 30, 2018

Shaktiman and Shakti

It must not be thought that, although Prakriti becomes conscious Shakti in manifestation, it is in any of its forms the ultimate object of worship. Worship, however, implies a duality. And although essentially the worshipper and the worshipped are the same - and it is the realization of this Unity which is the end and aim of worship - yet Shakti in manifestation cannot but be the object of worship so long as the Ego has its individuality, which is made of the stuff of Prakriti. It is, therefore, that in spiritual culture the Tantra postulates two Shaktis - Vachaka…
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