Kriyāśakti
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kriyāśakti · power of action
in the texts
San Hyan Tattvajnana
The power of action/creation, one of the four śaktis, described elsewhere as the 'life of life' that enters and animates ahaṅkāra.
Kriyāśakti means He creates the entire world, and moreover all the hosts of deities.
This is what is called the 'life of life', namely the Kriyāśakti of the authoritative Lord, and it is the life of *ahaṅkāra* and the life of *buddhi*.
It is His consciousness that creates all the many beings, using the Lord's Kriyāśakti as the means, and using the *ātmā* in the *turyya* state and the *ātmā* in the *jāgrat* state as the instruments, to create the *ātmā* in the *supta* state.
Vrhaspatitattva
The power of action, one of Sadāśiva's four śaktis, responsible for acting upon pradhānatattva to produce triguṇatattva.
Then *pradhānatattva* is acted upon by the Lord’s power of action (*kriyāśakti*), and it gives birth to the *triguṇatattva*.
*vibhuśakti* (pervasive power), *prabhuśakti* (sovereign power), *jñānaśakti* (power of knowledge), and *kriyāśakti* (power of action).