Creation

Creation:  Prakruti-Purusha   (Male &Female)

One energy with many names and forms: There is one energy that keeps taking on new shapes and forms. In Tantra the name of that energy is Prkruti Shakti (Female) , which is the manifesting, or feminine force that is actually one and the same with its only apparent companion Purusha Shiva, (Male) the latent, or masculine. Each time the energy takes on a new form, we give it a new name.  The subtle energies condense and become known as earth, water, fire, air, and space, forming our experience of the gross world.

Seek to experience that one energy: To know, in direct experience, that unchanging truth, the one energy that is the substratum of all of the names and forms, is one of the ways of describing the universal goal of spiritual life. It is the experience of the union of Shakti and Shiva, creation and its ground, feminine and masculine, even though they were never actually divided in the first place. It is like wetness that is never separate from water, sweetness that is never separate from sugar, and warmth that is never separate from sunlight.

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