What is Shakti Sadhana?

 “Shakti Sadhana is a Hindu spiritual practice that focuses worship upon Devi, the Goddess, the Divine Mother who creates and embodies all the Universe.

Many of Her devotees conceive Devi as the Shakti (Supreme Energy) of Shiva (Supreme Consciousness); both identical to and inseparable from Him. Others worship Her as nothing less than Supreme Brahman Itself, the One Without a Second, holding that all other forms of Divinity, female or male, are but Her diverse manifestations.

In his History of the Śakta Religion, N. N. Bhattacharyya writes: "Śaktism is a very important religion among the Hindus of the present day. Those who worship the Supreme Deity exclusively as a Female Principle are called Śakta. Śakti is worshiped in various forms and numerous shrines are dedicated to Her images. The Śaktas conceive their Great Goddess as the personification of primordial energy and the source of all divine and cosmic evolution. She is identified with the Supreme Being, conceived as the Source and the Spring as well as the Controller of all the forces and potentialities of Nature. Nowhere in the religious history of the world do we come across such a completely female-oriented system."

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Who is Shakti?

Allow Her to answer for Herself:

"I am Manifest, Unmanifest, and Transcendent Divinity;
I am Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva,
As well as Saraswati, Lakshmi and Parvati.
I am the Earth, the Sun and the Stars,
And I am also the Moon.
I am all animals and birds,
And I am the outcaste as well, and the thief.
I am the low person of dreadful deeds,
And the great person of excellent deeds.
I am Female, I am Male, and I am Neuter."

From the Devi Bhagavatam Purana
 

How is She worshiped?

The ancient sage Sri Adi Shankara best defines a Shakta's ideal devotional aspiration:

"Let my every word be a prayer to Thee,
Every movement of my hands a ritual gesture to Thee,
Every step I take a circumambulation of Thy image,
Every morsel I eat a rite of sacrifice to Thee,
Every time I lay down a prostration at Thy feet;
Every act of personal pleasure and all else that I do,
Let it all be a form of worshiping Thee." ”

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