Part 6.2 - Shakti and Shiva

[Full title: Shaktism (India And Indonesia)—Shakti and Shiva]

The Shaktas who were conceived as gods are the ultimate divinity. It is the essence of all creation, as well as its appearance and the power it gathers and guides. "There is no place in the religious history of the world that comes through a system that is entirely focused on women.

The focus of skepticism on divine femininity does not imply rejection of the masculine or material soul. However, both are considered inactive in the absence of Shakti. As mentioned in the first line of the famous Shakta psalms in Uday Shankara, Saundaryalahari (c 800 AD): "If Shiva is united with Shakti, he is capable of creating, if not, he can not even", As the well-known image of the goddess Cali confirms the body of Shiva, who appears without spirit.

Shiva and Shakti are in the form of a half male, half female of Ardhanari. (Vantaa Caves, 5th century AD, Mumbai, India)^[1]

According to historian VR Ramachandra Dikshitar (here speaks of Shiva as Brahman), "Shaktism is a Hindu dynamic." Shakti is a Brahman dynamic." In religious art, this cosmic dynamic is strongly expressed in the middle god of Shakti, half of Shiva known as Ardhanari.

According to Shaktism, Davy considers the origin, depth and extent of anything creative, tangible or intangible, including Shiva himself. In Devi-Bhagavata Purana, a Bible of Shakta, Davy proclaims: "I am the sun and I am a star and I am the moon, I am all animals and birds, I am also a thief and a thief, I am a person who acts terrible and notorious and a great person of business Excellent: I am a woman, I am a man and I am neutral.

According to religious scholars C. McKenzie Brown explains that Shaktizm "clearly insists that the female is the dominant force in the world of both genders, yet both sexes must be included in the end if the latter is ultimately male and female are units of God, Which transcends them but always abounds in them. "Thus, in his highest form of consciousness, Devi transcends sex, but his superiority is indistinguishable from that of his existence." "In fact, this affirmation is the essence of the divine mother [and her victory] end of the day. It is not, finally, that it is immeasurably superior to the male gods -even if it is according to Shaktizm -but it transcends its feminine nature as Prakriti without denying it."^[2]

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

Klaus K. Klostermaier (2010). Survey of Hinduism, A: Third Edition. State University of New York Press. pp. 30, 114–116, 233–245. ISBN 978-0-7914-8011-3.

[2]:

Jump up to:a b c Flood, Gavin D. (1996), An Introduction to Hinduism, Cambridge University Press, pp. 174–176, ISBN 978-0-521-43878-0