Goddess Kali is one of the most popular Goddesses in Hinduism. Her sensational and extraordinary appearance is watched with awe and fear by devotees. Birth of Kali is a subject of constant debate for scholars and people who want Goddess Kali to fit into their logics. But what they forget is the freedom that each individual has to define the Supreme Truth. For many people Brahman the Supreme Truth appears in the form of female energy – Goddess Kali. And she means many different things to her worshipers.
There are few common factors in the origin of Goddess Kali – she is associated with Shiva or Durga and she is born to annihilate evil that is of unimaginably terrible nature. She is also a human representation of extreme fury that Nature can unleash.
In Devi Mahatmya, Goddess Kali is said to have emerged from an angry forehead of Goddess Durga. In this form she is believed to be the manifestation of Durga’s anger. She vanquishes Demons Chanda and Munda and later the demon Raktabija. It is said that Goddess Kali after killing the demon still continued her destruction and finally Lord Shiva had to lie on Kali’s path. Goddess Kali stepped upon him and soon she realized her mistake and this cooled her down.
It is widely believed especially in South Indian state of Kerala that Goddess Kali appeared to vanquish demon Darika – who ruled the three worlds and started eliminating all that was good. Sage Narada informs about Darika’s activities to Shiva. An enraged Shiva opens his third eye and from it emerged Goddess Kali. This origin of Goddess Kali is popular in Kerala where is worshipped as Bhadrakali. The fight between Darika and Kali shook the entire universe and after a prolonged fight she kills Darika.
Another legend suggests that Goddess Kali is an incarnation of Goddess Parvati and in this form she is the wife of Lord Shiva. Kali is the terrible and violent form of Parvati, who is otherwise ‘Shanta swarupini’ – in compassionate form.
It must be noted here that all the demons that Kali fights are of terrible nature. One demon was able to produce thousands of demons from a singe drop of blood and therefore She had to drink the blood to vanquish him.
Symbolically, Goddess Kali represents the harsh realities of life – the violent Nature and the violence in living beings. She shows the need for discrimination and dispassion and that good and evil arise from the same source and to spiritually progress we must overcome the terrible and violent side of life.
4 comments:
I think MAA Kali is the true representation of nature she is fierce to those who wants to harm her baby like the nature of any "MAA" or mother may it be human may it be lioness a mother protecting her child is most fierce, but to the child she is compassionate, with the killer jaws that she hunts is also capable of lifting her child and placing them to safety, like her one out of four hands shows a posture of assurance to her children, while the other holding a decapitated head by the hair.
Does Kali mount herself on Shiva's Ling to cool her rage?
Kali is infact the true representation of the material as well as spiritual world and she portrays herself as fierce and utmost peaceful energy.. inorder to demonstrate different characteristics during different scenarios.... But most of all i believe and concieve as my eternal mother who protects me and infact all of us throughout our material existence.. having faith in her is all that matters...
Kali is does not discriminate , i'm white and a brother God to her , good and evil branches from all spirituality - the apple doesn't fall to far from the tree, I help Kali by fighting demons but I let her drink their blood and she stepped on Shiva to become sober .
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