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She is the Anādi-Śakti—unborn, without beginning or end, Abhināśī, immortal. She is that Śakti, the incarnation of that divine power, and she has always been the half part of Śiva. Consider that our body is divided into two parts: the left side is feminine and the right side is masculine. In each and every person, the body is divided into Śiva and Śakti. This you will understand in Kuṇḍalinī Yoga. She is the Ardhāṅginī; even your wife you call Ardhāṅginī. She is the half part of you: Śiva and Śakti, consciousness and energy. Do not think of them in physical form. This is the power which governs the entire universe—Śiva and Śakti. It means consciousness and energy. Without energy, consciousness cannot move. And without consciousness, that Śakti can do nothing. They are both together. Where there is Śakti, there is consciousness. Where there is consciousness, there is movement, and where there is movement there is Śakti. Where there is Śakti there is growth and development, and where a thing is developing there is consciousness. Thus, consciousness and Śakti, from the very beginning of time, the Ādi and Ādikāla, they are all together. She is the creator of the world. It is she who is the protector of the world. And she is the destructor of the world; it is she who is exhaling. It is she who is returning, and it is she who again inhales. How does Viṣṇu work? Through his Śakti. How does Śiva work? Through his Śakti. Therefore, Kṛṣṇa says, "Arjuna, from time to time, I manifest myself through my Yoga-Māyā, through my Yoga-Śakti." So "yoga" here means that divine Śakti. Without that Śakti, everything is dead. Nothing is movable. Pārvatī is the incarnation of that Śakti. She incarnates by her own wish, through her own willpower. There is no one who sends her away, and no one who sends her into this world to be born. It is free will. She comes and she goes; that is the divine Līlā.