Adi Shakti

Adi Shakti

Shakti or Adi Shakti is the primordial cosmic energy and represents the dynamic forces that are thought to move through the entire universe in Hinduism. Shakti is the concept, or personification, of divine feminine creative power, sometimes referred to as 'The Great Divine Mother' in Hinduism. On the earthly plane, Shakti most actively manifests through female embodiment and creativity/fertility.

She is shakti of the Supreme being , Shiva known as Adi Parashakti, Mahadevi etc.

She is nature and hence is also known as Prakriti.

• Adi Shakti, The Mistress of All Creation
• Benevolent Maa Adi-Shakti
• Smiling Maa Adi-Shakti
• Adi-Shakti's invisible Form
• Maa Shakti inflamed With Rage
• Mata Adi-Shakti, The Violent One
• The Violently Furious Mata Adi-Shakti
• Eight-Armed Mata Parvati as Adi-Shakti
• Maa Adi-Shakti's Violent Fury
• Maa Adi-Shakti is Pacified
• Adi-Shakti, The Goddess Who Creates, Preserves and Destroys All
• Devi Adi-Shakti
• Adi-Shakti, The Inflamed, Violent But Benevolent Mother Goddess
• Parvati Transformed into Adi Shakti
• Adi-Shakti Announces Annihilation To All Creations
• Adi-Shakti Destroys The Cosmos
• Adi-Shakti's Rage Turns To Sorrow
• Adi Shakti Berates Tridev
• Maa Adishakti Prepares To Destroy The World
• Maa Adi-Shakti Hearing The Calls of Her Children
• Parvati Shows Her Violent Image To Lord Shiva and All The Gods
• Adi-Shakti Shows Her Violent, Ruthless and Massive Form To Tridev
• Parvati's Violent Form Erupts From Her Body in Front of Lord Shiva and All The Gods
• Adi-Shakti Searches For More Worlds To Destroy
• Parvati as The Violent and Ruthless Adi Shakti
• Adi-Shakti, The Eternal Goddess of The Female Force
• The Violent Adi-Shakti
• Adi-Shakti Reprimands Tridev
• Adi-Shakti ignores Tridev's Requests To Pacify Her
• Adi-Shakti ignores Tridev and Starts The Process of Destruction To Creation

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Appearance

Adi Shakti appears in the form of the human form she has taken for Lord Shiva.

She is actually formless.

She is also depicted as a lady in red saree with many ornaments and has 8 hands, 7 hands holding different weapons and the lower right hand giving blessings.

Adi Shakti's Formless State

History

When the world was being created, Lord Bramha asked Lord Shiva for a boon. Lord Bramha asked Lord Shiva to separate Shakti from him(Shiva) as Bramha needed energy(Shakti) to create the world.

Thus,Shakti was separated from Shiva.

Sati as Adi Shakti

After the world was created, it was decided that Adi Shakti should again be united with Shiva. Therefore, Adi Shakti took the incarnation of Sati,in order to win Shiva over. But,unfortunately and tragically,Sati died,which made Lord Shiva so sad that he decided to renounce the world and began meditating.

To get Shiva out of his meditation and to engage him with the world,Adi Shakti again took the human form of Parvati.