This is Kali and Shiva They are a manifestation of the female physical powerful flowing energy, Kali, and the divine light of consciousness as embodied by Shiva. This common pairing of the goddess Kali standing on her husband, the god Shiva, illustrates the importance Tantra places on feminine creative power (shakti). Shiva is a shava (corpse) without the feminine presence of Shakti.
Whereas other Hindu traditions understood the world as an illusion (maya), a dream from which to wake, Tantric theology celebrated it as shakti or creative feminine power. Material existence is a ‘house of fun’ and we can participate freely in divine creation like playful children of Kali, the divine mother, aspiring to transform and not transcend the world.
Kali, the dynamic and active destructive and creative principle, stands over and above the passive and transcendent god Shiva. Bengal 19th century
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This is Kali and Shiva
They are a manifestation of the female physical powerful flowing energy, Kali, and the divine light of consciousness as embodied by Shiva.
This common pairing of the goddess Kali standing on her husband, the god Shiva, illustrates the importance Tantra places on feminine creative power (shakti). Shiva is a shava (corpse) without the feminine presence of Shakti.
Whereas other Hindu traditions understood the world as an illusion (maya), a dream from which to wake, Tantric theology celebrated it as shakti or creative feminine power. Material existence is a ‘house of fun’ and we can participate freely in divine creation like playful children of Kali, the divine mother, aspiring to transform and not transcend the world.
Kali, the dynamic and active destructive and creative principle, stands over and above the passive and transcendent god Shiva.
Bengal 19th century
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