{"id":236,"date":"2025-11-16T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/?p=236"},"modified":"2025-11-16T03:31:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T03:31:04","slug":"shakti-and-shiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/shakti-and-shiva\/","title":{"rendered":"SHAKTI AND SHIVA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3141\" style=\"width: 736px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC0015-yoga-pants-web-726x10241.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3141\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3141\" src=\"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC0015-yoga-pants-web-726x10241.jpg\" alt=\"DANCE OF SHIVA\" width=\"726\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC0015-yoga-pants-web-726x10241.jpg 726w, https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC0015-yoga-pants-web-726x10241-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DANCE OF SHIVA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Consciousness is purusa, unchanging. In order to exist as a material life form it must combine with matter that is always changing, prakriti. This is a paradox. The Hindu yogic tradition uses the myth of Shiva and Shakti to explain.<\/p>\n<p>They are a divine couple, lovers in the fields 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 (sheaths) surround Shiva, allowing the lovers to experience passion as the embodied soul.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Weight Loss Through Yoga, Jewel in the Lotus &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;page 69<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consciousness is purusa, unchanging. In order to exist as a material life form it must combine with matter that is always changing, prakriti. This is a paradox. The Hindu yogic tradition uses the myth of Shiva and Shakti to explain. They are a divine couple, lovers in the fields of creation. Shiva is the seer, [&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":[155,14,148,147],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-embodied-soul","tag-paradox","tag-shakti","tag-shiva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","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=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4930,"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/4930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}