Sakti

Lakshmi, as we have just noticed, is the sakti or consort of Vishnu, the preservative power of the deity.

The highest merit in Sakti can be reached only through arrack.

The worship of the Sakti, or female principle, has become a most elaborate system.

(This active power is personified as the goddess sakti or Energy, and her offspring-desire is the personification of Brahm).

(The gloss explains the essence satta to mean the energy—sakti, which is represented as the female attribute of the Divinity).