The Secret Doctrine of Goddess Lalita
(Sri LalitaAṣṭottara Rahasyārthamu)
19. madhyamā 20. vaikharīrūpā
She who stays in the middle.
She who is of the nature of vaikharī (sound in the form of the manifest world).
The third stage that follows paśyantī is madhyamā. For desire to transform into action, śakti takes the form of kriyā śakti. Since She is in the middle, in transition from icchā to kriyā, at this stage, śakti is called madhyamā. The gross world is not manifest at this stage. It is only a subtle and ‘un-blossomed’ potential in madhyamā.
When śakti moves from madhyamā to vaikharī, She blossoms fully. The universe appears with all its tantalizing and transitory forms. This gross appearance of śakti is vaikharī. In Her subtlest form, as un-manifest śakti, She is parā; In Her grossest form as the manifest world, She is vaikharī; and in the in-between states, She is madhyamā. In this manner, śakti transitions from the un-manifest and un-differentiated state of Pure Consciousness to the fully manifest and differentiated gross world we perceive.