Shakti explained

In Hinduism, Shakti is the macrocosmic feminine aspect of universal force that contains creation and is often personified as the supreme mother deity. It is regarded as an impersonal, unrestricted source of energy that can be attained through tantric practices for self-empowerment. Shakti can be conceived of individually as a personification, such as Durga or Kali, and cosmically as an impersonal force. It is attributed with being sexual, chaotic, fierce, transformative, and possessive.

She appears in the body as a personal force that infuses the practitioner's energy body with Kundalini, transforming the practitioner from a mortal to a demigod.

Kundalini, in Sanskrit, means a wheel and circulation. Technically, energy in motion that can be channeled through the practitioner's energy body for personal empowerment.

In the Hindu system, alongside the physical body and the organs known in the West, there are parallel energetic systems composed of various channels.

In each place where nodes exist, there are swirls of energy; the largest of them are known in the West as the seven major chakra wheels.

At the base of the spine, kundalini lies dormant, coiled like a serpent, waiting to be triggered and to rise upward, energizing pathways and channels and empowering the practitioner, initiating a transformative process of self-empowerment and personal evolution.

Kundalini can be accessed and used through various practices, including Kriya, Hatha, Joga, and various Tantras.

Each system of access and empowerment is designed to increase the flow of Kundalini through the body, invigorating and charging it.

It is also intended to prepare the energy and physical body for high voltage and to regulate and prepare for its manipulation.

Contrary to popular belief, Kundalini does not rise spontaneously; it requires a long, arduous practice to awaken and an even longer process of integration to stabilise it, as it is inherently unstable and formless.

In the system known as Kriya yoga, an implant is transferred from an advanced practitioner to the initiate. It then settles in the base of the spine and, through daily practice of pranic breathing’ pranayama’, stimulates and regulates the coiled kundalini so it will not rise at once, which has a consuming and dangerous effect on the body and psyche.

It is like a small generator of kundalini powered and fueled by prana, and at the same time operates as a battery to store kundalini.

Prana is the life force that flows all around, unequally, as there are places of low prana and places of high pranic concentration.

A mantra is being repeated during the pranic breathing to attune the psyche to a specific current.

Other practices aimed at circulating the kundalini throughout the body, especially through the two main channels that run along the spine.

The second initiation produces an astral body, and the third brings the Kundalini (personal energy) and Shakti(universal power) together.

Several competitive lineages exist, each with its own style and implant.

Hatha yoga is the most Westernly known set of yogic exercises, aimed at preparing the body for the high voltage of kundalini, generating it, and distributing it throughout the body.

Within this system, Initiation, implants, and energy transmission from an advanced practitioner are necessary to activate and align the chakras with specific currents.

It combines physical exercises, mantras, pranayama, and Ayurvedic medicine treatment.

Why the use of ayurvedic medications?

Yoga and especially Hatta is unnatural and harmful to the physical body, which is why ayurvedic medicine is neccery to keep and repair the body through the process.

Joga is a hands-on meditation technique; the Shivaite sadhus of the Naga Baba sects use it to fortify and stabilise their minds, will, and ability to manipulate energy currents. It is the means to become as solid and open as shiva the stabilising element of the universe, and hence of Shakti.

It awakens, enhances, and settles the Kundalini into the two main Kundals (circulations) of the subtle body. It is then combined with tantric practices such as tantric sex, taking intoxicants, chanting mantras, and mentally taking in certain geometric patterns called yantras.

Through devotional ‘bahakti’ practice, the force of shakti assumes a personified form as a specific deity, thereby fostering an intimate connection.

This deity acts as a mediator between the Kundalini, the practitioner, and cosmic shakti. 

What is an Isht?

An "Isht" is a deity that serves as a personal representation of Kundalini and Shakti and significantly influences the outcomes of the practice, depending on the practitioner's intimacy with and alignment with it.

The goal of total oneness with the Isht is strongly psychologically connected to the development of such an intimate friendship.

It can be referred to as a sister, partner, mother, or even a lover, but always a female, as Shiva is male.

Each of those relations of the inner deity, as Kundalini, has a profound psychological impact.

The "Isht possesses the Jogi"; she is shakti, the Kundalini, anthropomorphized and animated, who then fuses with the Jogi, thereby creating a symbiotic relationship.

In the process, she takes control over the regulation, manifestation, and expression of the power.

Then comes an alignment of the practitioner and his 'Isht' with Mahadevi, the macrocosmic masculine principle.

Tantra has many levels, starting with offerings of flowers and incense at the feet of the goddess to radical practices such as drinking menstrual blood and consuming human flesh.