Sakti and Sakta

Sir John Woodroffe who wrote under the pseudonym of Arthur Avalon was a Western scholar in the best traditions who brought important Hindu texts and teachings to the West including the classic work on Kundalini yoga The Serpent Power. In Shakti and Shakta Woodroffe explores the teachings of the Bharata Dharma the common thread of tradition that links Hinduism Buddhism and Jainism as they relate to the divine feminine expressed as Shakti or power in contrast to Shiva or unchanging consciousness.