The Dakini is a manifestation of the energy of enlightened awareness in the stream of consciousness of the individual, which awakens that consciousness to the spiritual path.
At certain places of pilgrimage and in the cremation grounds of India and Tibet, the Dakas and Dakinis will gather at certain phases of the moon in order to celebrate the Tantric feast called the Ganachakra Puja. These nocturnal rites under the moon are reminiscent of the Bacchanalia, or of the Witches’ Sabbat in the West. The Dakas and Dakinis come to the feast flying through the sky, and gather around a huge cauldron made from a gigantic skull, where they sing and dance and drink. |
