As you meditate on a Durga mantra, you will recognise that particular feeling that the mantra evokes in you

Invoke Shakti in your life and activate their power within you. Chant her mantras and meditate on her form. As you meditate on a Durga mantra, you will recognise that particular feeling that the mantra evokes in you. You will feel that positive energy in you. Strength, wisdom, and intuition are natural to us, as they are to every sentient creature. But they don’t belong to us. Our gifts and powers and talents are aspects of the divine energy that moves through everything in the world. We can exercise them, master our gifts through effort. But they are never ours. Tantric masters recognized that fact. They understood the power of archetypal energies. Their greatest insight, however, was to realize that all power could be traced back to a subtle sacred source. They called it shakti, or cosmic power.

To understand why you might want to get into a relationship with a goddess, it helps to know how tantra views deities, especially goddesses. Deities are archetypes, of course. Many of us, knowingly or unknowingly, carry specific deity archetypes within us: Durga the warrior, Shiva the ascetic, Saraswati the poet. But in tantra, goddesses are not simply archetypes. They are powers. Lakshmi, Kali, Saraswati, and Durga personify energies that are always at play in us and in nature. They are are really accessible, and helpful. In tantra, there’s a recognition that all the energies in a human being and in the natural world are aspects of shakti. They are intrinsically divine. When we recognize and name these specific shaktis as goddesses, we literally activate their powers within us. When you name the energy of abundance as Lakshmi, or repeat a mantra to Lakshmi, you touch into the energy vortex she represents. You bring that energy more alive in you. When you call on Durga, you bring forth your own deepest reserves of strength. When you call on Saraswati, you call on inspiration.

All of us have aspects of the goddess inside us. But when you start to see how your personal gifts, your love, and your strength are connected to transpersonal qualities in the universe, two things happen. First, you stop identifying egoically with your gifts. And second, you realize that you can connect directly with the divine sources of your energies. The more you contemplate these subtle, luscious archetypal beings, the more they come alive in you, the more you feel guided by them, and the more your life becomes irradiated by their sparkling, shimmering presence.! ✨🕉🔱👁🔱🕉✨

Jai Maa Durga Jai Maa Shakti ~ Om Sarva Mangal Mangalye, Shive sarvaartha Saadhike, Sharanye Triyambake Gauri, Narayani Namostute! 💖🙏💖

Shubh Ratri 💟💖💟