Welcome To Shakti's Reviews Guestbook A Journey into the Ageless Art of Seduction Shakti is translated "Cosmic Energy. " She implies "power, ability, capacity, strength prowess; regal power; power of composition, poetic power, genius;
Shakti is the Tantric title for the Great Goddess , realized as a sexual partner and as the innermost animating soul of man or god, like the Greek Psyche, Roman Anima, Gnostic Sophia, and the Kabbalistic Shekina, all based on the Shakti. Carl Jung declared her to be the figure known as My Lady Soul: "Every mother and every beloved is forced to become the carrier and embodiment of this omnipresent and ageless image, which corresponds to the deepest reality in man." Tantric doctrine stipulates mortal women are "life-itself" and Goddess-like, because they embody the principle of Shakti. The sages "hold women in great esteem and call them Shaktis and to ill treat a Shakti, that is, a woman, is a crime."