[Advaita-l] About Saguna Brahman / Ishwara

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste Subbu ji

As you said-

1. NB + mAyA = Ishvara

2. shakti or mAyA is the consort of the male Ishvara.

it becomes tricky because on the upAsya side (statement 2) mAyA is not jaDa
while in the technical sense (statement 1), mAyA is jaDa and Ishvara alone
can be the cetaNa mAyIn.

To accommodate both Shiva and Shakti being cetaNa,  I read about the
analogy somewhere  of a dancer when in fluid dance being Shakti and when
holding a pose being Shiva. Not sure if there is any classical reference to
this dancer in movement vs dancer is still pose,  analogy.

Om
Raghav



On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 at 10:27 PM, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM Kaushik Chevendra <
> chevendrakaushik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  “ This shakti is maayaa which has to be there for Brahman to create. In
> > other words, this shakti + NB is Ishwara. If this shakti is denied, there
> > is no SB at all.”
> >
> > From a bakthi perspective I think this is why we also do Pooja of Shakthi
> > Sametha isvara. Lakshmi Narayana, Radha Krishna, Sita Rama, Parvati
> > Parameshwara, Rukmini Krishna etc.
> >
>
> Yes, exactly.  That shakti is represented as the consort of the male Ishwra
> rupa.
>
> regards
> subbu
>
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