If the divine Shakti has sacrificed her royalty of transcendental delight and existence and awareness and accepted smallness in this mortal creation then a question does arise. The question is: is this Sacrifice, this Holocaust of the creative Force the same as the Sacrifice or Holocaust of the divine Purusha of the Vedic Purusha Sukta in which the Purusha was sacrificed in the ancient day? There are similarities between the two. In the Purusha Sukta the Gods and the Rishis and the Sadhyas invoked the Primordial Being or Purusha and offered him in the sacrifice, he agreeing to become the oblation, sacrificial the offering, āhuti; in the other, the creative Force approached the Supreme and in his Will, at his great command precipitated her Consciousness and Love and Truth into the world that had come out of the Inconscience and Suffering and Falsehood. This is an involution that has happened, only because someone willed it, and also paid a price for it to happen. The Holocaust of the divine Shakti is a result of that willing. The story of separation of the four beings from their supreme Origin is a former event, describing the involution prior to the holocaustic involution. Such is the story connected with the objectivisation of the Supreme.

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