The Sanskrit word for God is Ishvara, which means “the force capable of doing what She wishes to do, capable of not doing what He does not wish to do, and capable of undoing whatever so far has been done.” God is the omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent primordial force endowed with the unrestricted power of will. This Divine Being, according to tantrics, permeates every aspect of creation. What prevents us from experiencing its presence is our own ignorance, which stands like a wall between individual and universal consciousness. The tantric method of mantra sadhana is one of the surest
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