Shakti and Shakta: Essays and Addresses on the Shakta Tantrashastra c19.9

c19.9

The question cannot be decided solely by discussion, but by our conclusion as to the conformity of the particular theory held with spiritual experience. But how can we reconcile the unity of pure consciousness with the plurality of unconscious forms which the world of experience gives us? Vedânta gives various intellectual interpretations, though experience alone can solve this question. Śaṅkara says there is only one Sadvastu, the Brahman. From a transcendental standpoint, It is, and nothing happens. There is, in the state of highest experience (Paramâtma), no Īshvara, no creation, no world, no Jīva, no bondage, no liberation.