shakti

Dhumavati Mahavidya – Our Lady of Smoke Dhumavati is ugly, unsteady, and angry. She is tall and wears dirty clothes. Her ears are ugly and rough, she has long teeth, and her breasts hang low. She has a long nose. She has the form of an angry widow. Her eyes are fearsome and her hands […]

Bagalamukhi Mahavidya – She is the Giver of Magical Powers She has assumed a serious mood and is maddened with intoxication. Her brilliance reflects the golden hue of her body. On her forehead is the crescent moon, which is yellow in color. Bagalamukhi (aka Idris) is associated with supernatural or magical powers, with the ability

Nairatmya Yogini – Her Body is the Sky She is enlightened spontaneity in female form,A supremely blissful divine yogini.She is the mansion of enlightened awareness.Possessor of the five Buddha-Wisdoms…She is pure, universal awareness,The sovereign of the mandala.She is Nairatmya Yogini,The essence of ultimate reality. She is the Lady of Emptiness She is subtle and spacious

Chinnamasta Mahavidya – She is the Shock Goddess Chinnamasta (aka Cinnamunda / Mirita) conveys the idea of reality in the contrast of sex and death, creation and destruction, and giving and taking. She is probably the most stunning representation in the Hindu pantheon of the truth that life, sex, and death are part of an

Prajnaparamita – She is Perfection of Wisdom She is the perfect wisdom that never comes into beingAnd therefore never goes out of being.She is known as the Great Mother…She is the Perfect Wisdom who gives birthless birth to all Buddhas.And through these sublimely Awakened Ones,It is Mother Prajnaparamita aloneWho runs the wheel of true teaching.