Shakti Mantras Quotes

“Saraswati, in her manifestation as Divine Speech, represents a route, through mantra, to grasping the underlying spiritual laws of the universe and through them the attainment of personal spiritual and material power.”
― Thom Ashley-Farrand, Shakti Mantras: Tapping into the Great Goddess Energy Within

“The housecleaning our bodies perform while we sleep is powered by the shakti that energizes the sympathetic, parasympathetic, and autonomous nervous systems to send instructions to the lymphatic system, the pituitary gland, and a host of other places in our slumbering forms. Whether it is blood circulating in the veins and arteries, a nerve impulse jumping a synaptic gap in the brain, our body straining while running the hundred-meter dash, or the working out of a physics or organic chemistry problem, our shakti provides the energy to accomplish the activity.”
― Thom Ashley-Farrand, Shakti Mantras: Tapping into the Great Goddess Energy Within

“Sir John Woodroffe’s Garland of Letters is a translation of one of the earliest recorded scriptures in all of mankind. Called the Sata-patha Brahmana (VI 1-1-8), it is reputed to have been part of an oral tradition in India for six to eight thousand years. It states, “In the beginning was God with power through speech. God said, ‘May I be many … May I be propagated. And by his will expressed through subtle speech, he united himself with that speech and became pregnant….” It sounds amazingly like the Gospel of John, “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God.”
― Thom Ashley-Farrand, Shakti Mantras: Tapping into the Great Goddess Energy Within

“Paramahansa Yogananda would tell people, “Call to Divine Mother, because the Mother is nearer than the Father.”
― Thom Ashley-Farrand, Shakti Mantras: Tapping into the Great Goddess Energy Within