Turiyatita in Contemporary Vedanta by Sivananda

As India segued into modern times Tantra and Vedanta began to cross-fertilize in a much more definite way. And the culmination of that process was Ramakrishna, the nineteenth century Bengali sage who was trained by both a Tantric adept and a mainstream, orthodox Vedantin swami of the Shankara Puri order, resulting in a rather yin-yang, i.e. highly flexible integration of both. He stated: The Reality from which we derive the notion of Brahman is the very Reality that evolves the idea of living beings and the universe. Kali (the Tantric reality which energizes the universe) is none other than Brahman. That which is called Brahman is really Kali. She is the primal Energy. When that Energy remains inactive, I call it Brahman; when it creates, preserves, or destroys, I call it Shakti or Kali. What you call Brahman I call Kali.