A female embodiment of enlightenment is called a dakini in the ancient Indian language of Sanskrit.

Dakini literally means “sky dweller” or “sky dancer,” and is the most sacred aspect of the feminine principle in Tantra and Tibetan Buddhism.

In general, the dakini represents the ever-changing flow of energy with which the yogic practitioner must work in order to become realized.

Traditionally, the term dakini has been used for outstanding female practitioners, consorts of great masters, and to denote the enlightened female principle of nonduality which transcends gender. Now, we see a terrestrial as well as cosmic approach of understanding Dakinis.

She is called the formless wisdom nature of the mind itself. On an inner, ritual level, she is a meditational deity.On an outer, subtle-body level, she is the energetic network of the embodied mind in the subtle channels and vital breath of tantric yoga.

In the terrestrial approach,She is also spoken of as a living woman: she may be a guru on a brocaded throne or a yogini meditating in a remote cave, a powerful teacher of meditation or a guru’s consort teaching directly through her life example.

Dakinis may appear differently in various contexts; when needed, she may appear as fierce and intense or playful and nurturing. At other times she may appear outrageous or repulsive.

Dakinis guard the most private details of spiritual practice, so that only those with the purest motivation are able to penetrate its essence.

Dakinis are consecrated in the skies by yogis to guard their wisdom or yogic eggs that they lay after lifetimes of yogic and tantric practices. If these energies, eggs or wisdom is not guarded it will used up or exploited by many and the chosen one may not receive it so for the chosen one, who comes to the spot on a particular predestined date and time with a perfect level Blissfulness, the dakini opens up the gates and there will be a spondeneous over flow of wisdom. Just like how a person with the right password accesses the data from a database, he will able to collect the wisdom. Here we see the Dakini as a consecrated deity, the cosmic approach.

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