Principle of Shakti in Kashmir Shaivism (Study)
by Nirmala V. | 2016 | 65,229 words
This page relates 鈥楶hilosophical Implications鈥� of the thesis dealing with the evolution and role of Shakti鈥攖he feminine principle鈥攚ithin the religious and philosophical framework of Kashmir Shaivism. Tantrism represents an ancient Indian spiritual system with Shakti traditionally holding a prominent role. This study examines four major sub-streams: Kula, Krama, Spanda, and Pratyabhijn膩.
Part 5 - Philosophical Implications
The need of development of a 鈥榩ure philosophy鈥� instead of religions with philosophical undercurrents was the first turn in the history of conceptual changes within the Tantrism. The thought systems as well as their proposed theories are always generating the space for the proposed discourses. Kashmir 艢补颈惫颈蝉尘, as is familiar, did not ever appear as a mere philosophical system even after the philosophizing process that underwent in the age of its great flourish during the 9th to 11th centuries CE. The cause for this uniqueness of Kashmir 艢补颈惫颈蝉尘, is nothing but the conceptual or doctrinal frame work essentially based on the concept of 艢补办迟颈. Likewise the very concept was the vitality of the entire metaphysics of this system.
Some of the 艢补办迟颈-based conceptions proposed by the authors seem to have been termed as 鈥榩hilosophical implications鈥� which too may be viewed as the disclosure of 艢补办迟颈 (艢补办迟测腻惫颈峁补谤补峁嘺) in the non-dualist 艢补颈惫补 philosophy. The main predisposition of philosophical allegations is related to the cosmological, ontological and soteriological theories based upon the categorization of the objective universe.