ŚAKTI AND ŚĀKTA
ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES ON THE ŚĀKTA TANTRAŚĀSTRA
BY
SIR JOHN WOODROFFE
It is a book based on Tantra sastra by John woodroffe. John Woodroffe , a British Orientalist had a deep interest in Hindu philosophy helped creating an interest of Hindu Philosophy in western minds. He was a master in Tantra. His works on tantra like Serpent power, Shakthi, shaktha, Garland of letters are popular.
The Śākta Tantra is a Sādhanā Śāstra of Monistic (Advaitavāda) Vedānta. It is to me a profound and powerful system, and its doctrine of Śakti or Divine Power is one of the greatest evolved, through spiritual intuition, by the human mind which, according to its teaching, is a manifestation of the Divine Consciousness Itself (Śiva). The Doctrine is laid on grand lines and what is not, in this Vast Land of great distances? I write this on a high plateau in Palamow, and look across a wide stretch of tall grass with tips of waving silver, the home, until about nine years ago (when the place was first opened), of the wild bison. The green and silver of the Prairie is splashed here and there with patches of orange flower, which the blazing sun jewels with its points of light. The near distance shows the water of a mountain tarn and two clumps of trees—the groves of worship of the ancient Kolatrian peoples. Here a sparse remnant adore to-day, as did their ancestors thousands of years ago..
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