Shakti

Shakti is divine feminine power understood in Hindu traditions as the energy that animates the cosmos. It is both a cosmic principle and, in many traditions, a goddess.

Devi: Devi is the Hindu concept of the goddess as divine feminine reality, expressed through many forms. Shakti is often worshipped as Devi, the goddess whose power sustains the cosmos.
Prakriti: Prakriti is primordial nature or material reality in several Indian philosophical systems. Some Hindu accounts associate Shakti with the active, manifesting power of nature.
Brahman: Brahman is ultimate reality in several Hindu philosophical traditions. Some traditions understand Shakti as the dynamic aspect of ultimate reality.
Durga: Durga is a Hindu goddess associated with protection and the defeat of destructive forces. Her battle against Mahishasura depicts Shakti as forceful protection against disorder.
Shaktism: Shaktism is a Hindu tradition that regards the Goddess as supreme. This tradition places Shakti at the center of theology and worship.
Purusha: Purusha is the witnessing consciousness distinguished from material nature in Samkhya philosophy. The contrast clarifies traditions that distinguish active Shakti from witnessing consciousness.
Maya: Maya is the power or principle associated with appearance, manifestation, and the phenomenal world in Hindu thought. Shakti may be described as the power through which the world appears and unfolds.
Kali: Kali is a Hindu goddess associated with time, destruction, and liberation. Kali embodies Shakti's fierce power to destroy ignorance and transform existence.
Divine feminine: The divine feminine is a religious and symbolic principle associated with feminine forms of sacred power. Shakti is a distinctive Hindu expression of sacred feminine power.
Kundalini: Kundalini is a latent spiritual power described in tantric and yogic traditions as coiled at the body's base. Kundalini is Shakti understood as dormant power within the embodied practitioner.

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