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In the India, women are an intimate part of nature, both in the imagination and in practice. At one level nature is symbolized as the embodiment of the feminine principle and at another she is nurtured by the feminine to produce life and provide sustenance. From the point of view of Indian cosmology, in both the esoteric and esoteric traditions, the world is produced and renewed by the dialectical play of creation and destruction, cohesion and disintegration. The tension between the opposites from which motion and movement arises is depicted as the first appearance of shakti, dynamic energy.