The Shakti is the feminine we know through human gender, animals, birds, the powers of nature, and the cosmos. Yet, the Shakti is also something beyond it all, something profoundly mysterious. 

The aspect of Shakti beyond the visible world, yet essential to all life, is the Ultimate Shakti. In other words, we consider the absolute, ultimate reality of all life and consciousness as feminine.

This Ultimate Shakti is not something we can speak about, as there are no human language references. For this reason, we turn to Sanskrit mantras, the twilight language, the language of Yoga, and enlightened consciousness. 

Specific Sanskrit mantras related to the Ultimate Shakti can elevate our minds and hearts beyond our egoic conditioning. The patterns found in ancient mantras connect us to birdsong and the rhythms of nature in ways that are inexplicable to the mind.

Our Yogic Mystery School specializes in Sri Vidya, the way of auspicious wisdom. Hindus revere this path as it upholds the authority of the Vedas while integrating Yoga and other powerful practices. 

In this tradition, the Ultimate Shakti is Sri Lalita Tripurasundari, whose beauty fills all realms. Shakti is feminine and, on this path, She is the Supreme Being. How important it is for the world to realize, recognize, and acknowledge that the feminine, too, is an aspect of the Absolute Divinity.

Through the philosophy, theology, and cosmology of this unique path, we approach the Absolute Godhead as feminine and with great reverence so that we may know her power, her beauty, and receive her knowledge and love. However, it is not easy to cut through the layers of illusion that confine us to ego consciousness and its projections of the Shakti.

To know the Ultimate Shakti, we rely on human effort fed by divine grace, which comes directly from this unseen source that is also the womb of all creation. There are also practices of mudras (hand gestures) used in combination with mantras (mystical sounds) to approach this mystery of the Ultimate Shakti. 

When the seeker is ready, all of these elements can come together to reveal this holy mystery. The soul needs to be ripe enough, for this is no ordinary experience.