Prakriti is only the executive or
working force – the Power behind the Prakriti is Shakti. It is the
Chit-Shakti in manifestation: that is the spiritual consciousness.
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The Self or Atman is inactive; Nature
(Prakriti) or Shakti acts. When the Self is felt it is first an
infinite existence, silence, freedom, peace that is felt – that is
called Atman or Self. What action takes place in it is according to
the realisation either felt as forces of Nature working in that
wideness, as the Divine Shakti working or as the cosmic Divine or
various powers of them working. It is not felt that the Self is
acting. |