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| | Sakti, Suffering, and Power (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | To begin with, sakti, like our word "power" is often defined as the ability to act, to make others act, to make things happen, and as action itself. |
 | | Inasmuch as spiritual power of sakti is believed to be acquired through suffering, especially the suffering of servitude, one apparent contradiction is resolved: if women have more sakti than men, this is (at least in part) because women stand in the position of servants with respect to men. |
 | | On the contrary, for each woman the possession of extraordinary sakti came as a consequence of her subordinate status, or more accurately, as a consequence of the suffering that that subordination entailed" [14]. |
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