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OME UNDERSTAND
DIVINE
MOTHER as the Goddess or personal Consort of God;
some others as shakti, the energy, the strength of God—not that both are
different. One is with form and the other is, as if, without form. But both
are the same because Divine Mother with form is also the embodiment of
shakti, without which nothing could exist. Shakti is the power aspect of God
that creates, maintains and transforms. In all these three aspects, Divine
Mother is not only required but without Her nothing would be possible as far
as the creation is concerned.
When the Almighty Supreme wills to create or manifest phenomena, maya, then
the aspect of Divine Mother is needed. She is not separate from the
Almighty. Within the Truth, within the Spirit, within the Absolute is this
inherent potential of energy. That manifests. Dynamically shakti projects
from Him or It, as you might put it, because before shakti is created or
manifested, there is no “He.” “He” is only relative to “She.” Sometimes
therefore in Vedanta the Supreme is called It or Tat—That. From the
theological and grammatical point of view, if we say that before creation
God existed alone, “Himself” has to have “Herself”—the energy or some
counter-aspect, which is shakti. It is hard to put this into language.
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