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Power of Action (Kriyā-Śakti)

The fifth power: will and knowing carried all the way out into an actual world.

Kriyā-śakti is the power of action — the final power by which what was willed and known is carried all the way into expression and becomes the actual, concrete world. It is the divine's creativity made effective: the experience is no longer merely intended or imagined but fully there. In the unfolding of manifestation it comes last, completing the movement from will through knowledge to deed.