What is Shakta Tantra?
Shakti is the Goddess, the female principle, power, and energy. A Shakta is one who worships the Goddess and sees the Goddess as the underlying principle of all reality. Tantra is an ancient spiritual technology for personal liberation and transformation, which uses meditation, ritual, and philosophy to help the practitioner transform and expand her or his awareness. The goal of the Tantric practitioner, called a sadhaka or upasaka, is to achieve permanent, total oneness with the Divine. Tantra is also traditionally a devotional path, although not necessarily in the manner we may think of in the West as devotional. For Shaktas, the Goddess is the ultimate reality, everything an expression of Her grace. There are many streams of Tantra – Shaiva Tantra worships Shiva as the ultimate reality, Vaishnava Tantra worships the various incarnations of Vishnu (such as Krishna and Rama) as the ultimate reality. For us there is no conflict, because at the core, everything is one, so how we perceiv
