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Shakti Worship Methods Devi Upasna

The worship of the female principle is one of the basic tenets of Hinduism

Devi.
Sri Vidya
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Right from the Vedas, where the one of the Fundamental principles elaborated is Prakriti, the Female principle.

This, in conjunction, by mere Sparsa, meaning touch, slight rubbing, grazing,the word Sparsa is difficult to translate, with Purusa, the male principle is the cause for the evolution of this illusory world of Names and Forms.

Shaiva Siddhanta has two aspects Shiva and Shakti.

Lord Vishnu is described as the Ultimate Conjurer,in His Maya Form.

Samkhya Philosophy also speaks of Prakriti.

Prakriti is Nature ,

It is the Potential energy.

Kinetic Energy is The Purusha.

Yoga Sasra describes the Kundalini as a female.

Lalitha Sahasranama startts with the salutation, The Mother,-Sree Matha, Maharjne SrimadSrimad Simhasaneswari'

The worship of Devi is considered very effective and the methods of worship are strict and are tough.

So varied have been the forms of worship and methods that Adi Shankaracharya classified Shaakatam as a part of Shanmatha.

‘Lost’ Mind Space.

In general terms by losing we convey the sense that we have not been able to have what we had,or we do not know where what we had been using was gone.

In the case of Objects, we try to recollect,in many cases one visits the places mentally, some even physically(which I do, if it is my Home, to recall what had happened.

In most of the cases we do find what we thought we lost.

Excepting in cases where others have wantonly taken or hid them .

Then we repossess them.

Before we think of this, let us see what this ‘Lost’ means in other contexts.

Many say or feel they are lost in Thoughts or lost in confusion.

in these cases what happens is that people are concentrating on a particular thought or indecision and fear of taking decision to the exclusion of everything else.

So in effect their losing in things is illusory but a diversion in something else.

So effectively they do not lose anything, or do they?

The examples quoted above relate to mental images and they exist/existed only in the Mind.

And as such they have as much Reality of being or having been with us before or their continued association with us.