Understanding Shakti: Embracing Life's Dualities and Experiences

Shakti embodies every experience, urging us to embrace both suffering and joy as integral parts of life.

### Embracing Shakti: The Path to Non-Duality and Focused Experience
* 🌌 Shakti is the essence of existence, yet many fail to experience it due to the numerous **names and forms** we attribute to it, such as **Durga and Kali**.
* 🤔 The struggle between pleasant and unpleasant sensations creates a conflict with Shakti, as we tend to **desire some experiences while rejecting others**, leading to **frustration**.
* 💫 The highest understanding of Shakti involves recognizing that **every experience is an expression of this divine energy**, allowing us to engage with life **without making choices**.
* 🧘 Unlike the Vedantic path, which emphasizes **non-duality by removing the mind's dualistic perceptions**, the Shakti path embraces all experiences, including **confusion and doubt**, as manifestations of Shakti.
* 💔 Our inclination to avoid negative experiences leads to suffering, where **90% of our pain stems from psychological resistance** rather than the experience itself.
* 🔍 Engaging with suffering can sharpen our focus and concentration, as it **strips away distractions**, allowing us to **fully experience life in its raw form**.
* 📸 In a culture obsessed with selfies, we often live through our thoughts rather than the actual experiences, missing the **essence of true living** that Shakti embodies.
* 🌟 Acknowledging that the divinity we seek is **not external, but rather an integral part of ourselves**, is key to experiencing the fullness of life as **Shakti unfolds within us**.

Shakti is easiest to experience, and yet we don't experience it because we have many names for it. Because what you're living is Shakti, what you're living is Durga, is Kali. You know the totality of this cosmos, including you, is the Kali. So now the question arises that, uh, why I don't experience it. You are not experiencing it. It is also Kali. You know the Maya, the illusion, the first experiences of bitter and sweet means on the very basic level, on the physical level, we are struggling between bitter and sweet, pleasant sensation and unpleasant sensation. And that's what our basic conflict in life is with Shakti, that we want some of it and some of it we don't want, and that pisses us off. You know how dare you, you know, you choose something out of me and reject the rest of it, you know. So that is a sadhana aspect. Then the highest aspect of Shakti is for you every experience. It's just all Shakti, so you don't make any choice. You

live every experience as the appearance of Shakti in life. One of my friends said that he's stuck with Vedantic thought of he cannot feel the unity. He's confused and in doubt, and it's not clearing up. And the shaky market is that even your confusion and doubt in the mind, you also see it with reverence as Shakti showing her form to you. So you see, you stop struggling with your own whatsoever is going on because it's this struggle that it shouldn't be like this, it should be like this. That's where it creates the whole friction in your life. And this experience of life as one energy, that's what we call the non-duality, because Vedanta is saying not to take away the mind duality of anything, and you're left into the oneness of life. But whereas Shakti path like Vijnana is including everything. You see, for example, yoga is excluding everything, but Shakti path is including everything. So you see that needs a guts and devotion.

because we have very much of an inclination to run away from the bad experience, and our whole suffering is trying to run away from a bad experience. Otherwise, in itself, we suffer 10%, and 90% is our psychological resistance, and that's where we deplete ourselves. Whereas, if you know how to engage with suffering, you will realize it's the greatest best experience of focus. 'Cause when you're suffering, your mind is not distracted; you're left with only that situation, and that's why you're suffering. You want to be frivolous and everywhere, but it won't allow you. It is just there, vibrating in front of you, and that's why in BTI, people say that, Brau God, give me more suffering, because in suffering, you get focused, you get concentrated, and in that, it's very easy to experience life, you know, because your mind is not getting any more its, you know, little entertainments, you know, from this thought or that thought, or, you know, all is essentially our suffering is mind.

kicks. You know, like I say that most of the people are experiencing only 90% of their thoughts, what we call Life 10%. You actually live, but immediately thought comes in and you see, Oh, I lived there. I've been to. It's basically we have a selfie culture now. We have actual selfies, otherwise our thoughts are our selfies. I did that. I did that. I experienced that. But what Shi is about is about experiencing. So, Shi is doing everything for us, everything. She's The Listener also into you right now, and the wisdom with which you're figuring out that is also shy. The point you keep missing in your life is that not there's some Divinity out there, this who you are. When you are going to acknowledge that, I don't need to look for it as it is. I am into [Music] that [Music] [Music] the

The Secret To Ending All Struggle - Shakti

Satya Speaks

Shakti is the essence of life and the cosmos, yet we struggle to experience it due to our conflicting desires.

The duality of pleasant and unpleasant experiences creates friction in our lives, leading to confusion and doubt.

Embracing every experience as the manifestation of Shakti can lead to a sense of non-duality and unity, while the Shakti path includes and honors all aspects of life.

Suffering is often amplified by our psychological resistance, with 90% of our pain coming from trying to run away from it.

Engaging with suffering can lead to a greater focus and concentration, as it forces us to confront the situation directly.

Embracing suffering can provide a clearer experience of life, as it eliminates distractions and entertains the mind.

Shi represents the part of us that facilitates our experiences and thoughts.

The speaker emphasizes the importance of acknowledging that divinity is within ourselves, rather than seeking it externally.

The concept of a selfie culture is used to illustrate how our thoughts often reflect our past experiences.