This book explores this deep transcendent relationship to the Divine Beloved that we all have within us. It traces the rise of Matriarchy, the role of the Goddess, the feminine body, mind and spirit relationship; and suggests practices for self realization through this feminine path. It delves into Bhakti and Tantra, exploring how these ancient paths unlock the feminine within each of us.
A healing balm for the feminine heart, the Rasa is the dance of love between the soul and God. It ignites knowledge of the play of light and shadow, unites the feminine and masculine and brings to life the eternal love affair between individual ego and the God Self. The Rasa Lila is the joyous dance of love, hidden within, awaiting each and every soul that is called by the eternal Beloved.
Beckoned by the Divine Beloved, the feminine soul is drawn to a love affair with God. These writings explore this feminine path to God and what it means to surrender, to let go and come to know God through the play of opposites. As the noted psychotherapist Carl Jung states, both masculine and feminine aspects dwell within each of us. He refers to them as archetypes. The masculine, or Animus and the feminine, or Anima, are equally a part of our internal landscape. But the feminine aspect has been suppressed for centuries and many feminine qualities diminished or repressed.
The archetypal feminine within each of us is strong in emotion. This strong emotional quality and capacity to feel has often been looked upon as a weakness. But the emotions can be a deep and passionate path to God. Emotional awakening is needed at this point in our human evolution to balance the hardness of patriarchy. By awakening our true emotional intelligence, so characteristic of our feminine aspect, and directing it to our essence, we can unlock the mysteries of the ages and find our way home to Divinity.
Awakening of emotions requires us to be connected to our bodies in an authentic way, acknowledging our sexuality and our body’s needs and how they impact us. As we get genuinely connected to our bodies we become connected to our deeper emotions and their subtle, transcendent spiritual potential. Our emotions can be transmuted to divine qualities through the development of deep devotion to God. Both the path of Bhakti, or Devotion to God, and the path of Tantra, the transmutation of the crude to subtle, have explored the powerful relationship of the forces of duality and synthesis, awakening knowledge of the secret aspects of the feminine heart to unfold the feminine path to God.
This book explores this deep transcendent relationship to the Divine Beloved that we all have within us. It traces the rise of Matriarchy, the role of the Goddess, the feminine body, mind and spirit relationship; and suggests practices for self realization through this feminine path. It delves into Bhakti and Tantra, exploring how these ancient paths unlock the feminine within each of us and gives voice to the relationship of Shiva and Shakti, Radha and Krishna, the soul and God.