{"id":1623,"date":"2025-11-14T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2025-11-15T00:35:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T00:35:39","slug":"weight-loss-through-yoga-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/weight-loss-through-yoga-67\/","title":{"rendered":"SHIVA AND SHAKTI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN IV<\/p>\n<p>Hindu yogic myth explaining how the soul assumes corporeal form:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1624\" style=\"width: 413px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/402897_242979155825595_1364077609_n1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1624\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1624\" src=\"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/402897_242979155825595_1364077609_n1.jpg\" alt=\"YOGA = UNION\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/402897_242979155825595_1364077609_n1.jpg 403w, https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/402897_242979155825595_1364077609_n1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/402897_242979155825595_1364077609_n1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">YOGA = UNION<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They are a divine couple, lovers in the field of creation. Shiva is the seer, purusa, never changing, and Shakti is energy, prakriti, always changing. Shakti, the lover, wants to play a game of passion and creates a world inviting Shiva, the beloved, in to join her. Shiva points out the world is always changing and he is always the same. How can he play in her creation?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You be the center,&#8221; she replies. &#8220;You remain in your unchanging bliss and I&#8217;ll intermediate between you and the outside world. I will build sheaths through which you can experience the fun of my world while doing nothing in eternal bliss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Five koshas surround Shiva, allowing the lovers to experience passion as the embodied soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN IV Hindu yogic myth explaining how the soul assumes corporeal form: They are a divine couple, lovers in the field of creation. Shiva is the seer, purusa, never changing, and Shakti is energy, prakriti, always changing. Shakti, the lover, wants to play a game of passion and creates a world inviting Shiva, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[148,147,149],"class_list":["post-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-shakti","tag-shiva","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4681,"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions\/4681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}