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jnana-shakti

ज्ञानशक्ति jñāna-śakti

The power of knowledge; the second of the three powers of consciousness, standing between iccha-shakti and kriya-shakti as aspects of shakti.

Where this term appears

  • What is Shakti? Essentials

    There is iccha , the power of will, the leaning itself. There is jnana shakti , the power of knowing, awareness lit up.

  • The Body, Crown To Feet Treatise

    …- the point at the centre, the third eye, the location from which the jnana-shakti the second city of Tripura’s three powers issues.

  • The Chariot Treatise

    …aktis at the central triangle’s three vertices - iccha-shakti (will), jnana-shakti (knowledge), kriya-shakti (action) - and on the relationship between these three and the Para-Parapara-Apara triad of the Trika…

  • The Mantra, At Architecture Treatise

    The principle of creative emergence - the moment in which the differentiated cosmos first arises from the undifferentiated source. Jnana-shakti .

  • The Three Cities Treatise

    The fourth reading is the three powers - iccha-shakti (the power of will), jnana-shakti (the power of knowledge), kriya-shakti (the power of action).

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