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shiva and shakti

What is this sacred marriage? The concept of the energies of Shiva and Shakti. To call Shiva male and Shakti female is inadequate. These terms limit God, who cannot be limited. Our minds are limited to seeing masculine and feminine as polar opposites, but Shiva and Shakti have been married since before the dawn of creation. They are a divine whole that chooses to express itself by taking on the appearance of being masculine and feminine. We do the same thing. Although your body may be male, your inner self identifies with spirit as a whole, and therefore soul must include both.

Shiva is silence. Shakti is power.
Shiva is creativity. Shakti is creation.
Shiva is love. Shakti is loving.

These qualities aren't opposites but complete within themselves. Love consists of being able to see yourself in your beloved and your beloved in yourself. To remain stuck in gender stereotypes, to defend one's maleness or femaleness, or to criticize the other, these are all betrayals of the sacred foundation. A sacred marriage draws its passion from its inclusiveness. Passion for another person has to fade. Passion for life itself is Eternal.

When the two cosmic energies, Shiva and Shakti, are connected, the flow of passion brings unlimited creative potential. The poles of silence and power set up a tension between them, like the yearning felt between a man and a woman that can only be satisfied by the exchange of love. The current that connects them is the creative force of the universe, which is concentrated no where more than in you. You are the ground for this current to flow, it needs no one else. Only when Shiva and Shakti are married in you will you be able understand the passion for life.

Why is Shakti feminine? A woman's role has long been to serve. Be it as a helpmate, mother, attendant, and supplicant, not to wield power herself. Power in the Vedic sense, however, is always creative. Out of a divine sexual act the world was born; therefore the feminine, as birth giver, is the natural vehicle of power.

Shakti can be extremely visceral and physical. Shakti is the force that can create out of nothing. Shako can totally transform, melting away features of our inner landscape and creating new ones in their place. In meditation there is a tingling energy running up the spine. Kundalini, This energy gives direct knowledge of God, perception of other worlds, and fusion with the divine.

Shakti is the hidden power that turns matter into life. She is the divine spark, the, flow of God's love. Anyone who is connected with spirit has Shakti, which manifests in five ways that the God Herself manifests. As described in the ancient Shiva Sutras "teaching about Shiva" are the five powers:

Chitta Shakti: the awareness of God, "I am"
Ananda Shakti: the bliss of God "I am Blissful"
Icha Shakti: the desire or intention to unite with God "I will"
Gyana Shako: knowledge of God "I Know"
Kriya Shakti: action directed toward God "I Act"

God may have made Herself, or at least made Herself known to us. First She experienced Herself as existence "I am!", then creative joy "I am blissful", pulsating desire "I will!", cosmic mind "I know!", and finally the shaping force that molds all things "I act!".

The fivefold nature of Shakti

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