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Sister Nivedita (1867-1911), born Margaret Elizabeth Noble in Ireland. In the East, the accepted symbol is of a woman nude, with flowing hair, so dark a blue that she seems in colour to be black, four-handed---two hands in the act of blessing, and two holding a knife and bleeding head respectively,--garlanded with skulls, and dancing, with protruding tongue, on the prostrate figure of a man all white with ashes. A terrible, an extraordinary figure! Those who call it horrible may well be forgiven. They pass only through the outer court of the temple. Yet, this image, so fearful to the Western mind, is perhaps dearer than any other to the heart of India. It is not, indeed, the only form in which the Divine Energy presents Herself to Her worshippers. To the Sikh, She is absorbed, embodied in his sword; all women, especially as children, are Her incarnations; glorious Sita carries the great reality to many. But Kali comes closer to us than these. Others we admire; others we love; to Her we belong. Whether we know it or not, we are Her children, playing round Her knees. Life is but a game of hide-and-seek with Her, and if, in its course, we chance to touch Her feet, who can measure the shock of the divine energy that enters into us? Who can utter the rapture of our cry of "Mother?" For the Kali-image is not so much a picture of the deity, as the utterance of the secret of our own lives. The soul in realisation beholds the mother--how? The picture of green lawns and smiling skies, and flowers steeped in sunshine, cannot deceive the All-Knower. Under the apparent loveliness, He (Siva) sees life preying on life, the rivers breaking down the mountains, the comet poised in mid-space to strike. Around him rises up the wail of all the creatures, the moan of pain, and the sob of greed, and the pitiful cry of little things in fear. Irresponsible, without mercy, seems the spirit of time--deaf to the woes of man, or answering them only with a peal of laughter. As the Purush, or Soul, He is Consort and Spouse of Maya, Nature, the fleeting diversity of sense. It is in this relation that we find Him beneath the feet of Kali. His recumbent posture signifies inertness, the Soul untouched and indifferent to the external. Kali has been executing a wild dance of carnage. On all sides She has left evidences of Her reign of terror. The garland of skulls is round her neck; still in Her hands She holds the bloody weapon and a freshly-severed head. Suddenly She has stepped unwittingly on the body of Her Husband. Her foot is on His breast. He has looked up, awakened by that touch, and They are gazing into each other's eyes. Her right hands are raised in involuntary blessing, and Her tongue makes an exaggerated gesture of shyness and surprise, once common to Indian women of the villages. And He, what does He see? To Him, She is all beauty--this woman nude and terrible and black, who tells the name of God on the skulls of the dead, who creates the blood-shed on which demons fatten, who slays rejoicing and repents not, and blesses Him only that lies crushed beneath Her feet. Her mass of black hair flows behind Her like the wind, or like time, "the drift and passage of things." But to the great third eye even time is one, and that one, God. She is blue almost to blackness, like a mighty shadow, and bare like the dread realities of life and death. But for Him there is no shadow. Deep into the heart of that Most Terrible, He looks unshrinking, and in the ecstasy of recognition He calls Her Mother. So shall ever be the union of the soul with God. Do we understand what the background is from which such a thought as this could spring? For the Kali-image is not so much a picture of the deity, as the utterance of the secret of our own lives. |
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Siva is Mahākāla (Great Time); Kāli devours Mahakala; Time is in her; She is beyond Time. Her raiment is space (Digambara); Since she is clad in space, she is naked. She is also space; obviously one cannot clothe the vast space. Since she devours Mahakala, She is the Supreme Reality. Everything disappears in her by involution; it is like the Black Hole into which all fall in and nothing can escape from it, unless Kali wills it. When She wills it, the Tattvas (building blocks) proceed from her (the White Hole) building the universe and beings. All colors disappear in black. Adam and Eve were black according to geneticists. Since God or Goddess created man/woman in His/Her own image (Christian viewpoint), God/Goddess must be black. 'The point of condensation in a Black Hole is non-rotating uncharged Singularity with zero length, width and height.' This is what Hindus call Avyakta (Unmanifest)*. The present conjecture is that there is a Worm Hole connecting the Black Hole and a single (or ramified) White Hole, which is the origin of the new world of matter and beings. *Woodroffe (1865-1936) says, "the universe is withdrawn into the Sakti which projected it. It collapses, so to speak, into a mathematical point without any magnitude whatever." The Serpent Power page 34-35.
Judaism is also of the belief that the world came into existence out of nothing (Singularity of science, Avyakta of Hindus).
Here is what Woodroffe says about Kali, and the attitudes of people and nations towards Kali in the context of western imageries.
Excerpt from The Necklace of Kali, page 234, Garland of Letters by Sir John Woodroffe.
THE world has never been altogether without the Wisdom-the Mula Veda nor its Teachers. The degree and manner in which it has been imparted have, however, necessarily varied according to the capacities of men to receive it. So also have the symbols by which it has been conveyed. These symbols further have varying significance according to the spiritual advancement of the worshipper. This question of degree and variety of presentation has led to the superficial view that difference in beliefs negatives the existence of any commonly established Truth. But if the matter be regarded more deeply, it will be seen that whilst there is one essential Wisdom, its revelation has been more or less complete according to symbols evolved by, and, therefore, fitting to, particular racial temperaments and characters. Symbols are naturally misunderstood by those to whom the beliefs they typify are unfamiliar, and who differ in temperament from those who have evolved them. To the ordinary Western mind the symbols of Hinduism are often repulsive and absurd. It must not, however, be forgotten that some of the symbols of Western Faiths have the same effect on the Hindu. From the picture of the "Slain Lamb," and other symbols in terms of blood and death, he naturally shrinks in disgust. End--Woodroffe
| Kali and Siva are inseparable. Siva is portrayed in formless, form-formless and with form (= Arupa, Rupa-Arupa and Rupa). In the West, and also in India among certain people, there is a misconception about Siva Linga. Anadilinga = Anadi + Linga = without beginning + Linga. Also it is known as swyambhu or self-existent. Anadhilinga is supernatural Linga-shaped outcroppings as a natural formation from the earth. These are not fashioned by human hand. Anadhi Lingas are present at Vaidyanatha, Tarakesvara and Chandrasekara (Chittacong). Alinga, Linga, Lingalinga Alinga: The Great Supreme Vyaktam, the unmanifest, is beyond the ancient atma Mahan, which is beyond intelligence, the essence of the mind; the latter is beyond the mind, which is beyond the senses. Beyond avyaktam is the person who is all-pervasive and devoid of any mark (alinga). Knowing him brings liberation and immortality. Linga consists of prakrtic elements such as buddhi, ahamkara, manas, indriyas and Tanmatras (intellect, ego, mind, sense organs and subtle elements); the Supreme is not tainted with these factors; therefore, it is not subject to Samsara (= Metempsychosis). Linga status marks manifest Isvara, while Alinga status carries no marks and is unknowable; it is avyaktam, primordial, undifferentiated, unmanifest, noumenal state. Eyes have never seen this form. He can be known by (spiritual) heart, mind and (spiritual) wisdom. Mental focus helps apprehend Reality. When the five senses (vision, hearing, taste and speech, touch and grasp) and the mind come to a standstill and the intellect does not stir, that is the highest state (Paramam). When the Prakrti-bound senses and the mind come to an arrest, the spiritual world that lies beyond the grasp of the senses comes into access. This is yoga; it needs control of the senses; distractions make yoga come and go. Another view:
The Linga and the icon: Siva Linga is attributeless Nirguna Brahman. It is point of coalescence, where all Tattvas merge and is transcendental. Nataraja is the Saguna Brahman, the clinical Entity with attributes and the wielder of all Tattvas and Prakrti. Threefold Siva: Some others look at Siva in three forms: Mahesa, Sadasiva, and Nishkala Siva. Mahesa is Sakala form, having body parts, a clinical form; Sadasiva is Misra rupa (mixed form), both with and without attributes; Nishkala (Nirguna) Siva has no form or attributes and it is full of Bliss; therefore, it is called Ananda Rupa (Bliss form). In Dance festival (Nritotsava = Nrit +Utsava = Dance Festival), it is the (Ananda Tandava) Bliss Dance by Nishkala Siva. Many Lingams: Configuration of various Lingams are based on the Bhutas or elements: Fire, Earth, Wind, Water and Sky or Ether. The idea is that Siva exists in all elements; thus he exists in your body.
Wendy Doniger insists that Lingam is phallus which is the object of phallus worshippers. Such simplicity is questioned by other Western students of Hinduism. Assuming such simplicity in the image of Lingam, I submit in this article examples of some form of phallus worship in other cultures. |
Below you see the sacred, near-sacred and not-nearly-sacred phallic symbols of the present and the past in different cultures. Tourists from many nations move up the mound as if drawn by an inexorable pheromonal magnet, draw inspiration by visiting the open air Sanctum of the Temple-monument of President Washington, express awe at the colossus, invoke God (O my God), and go up the urethra, the central passage way to the top. It is well anchored to Mother Earth. Maypole is or was celebrated in the whole of Europe in one form or another. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maypole. Its phallic symbolism is undeniable and well-known. The earliest use of Maypole in America was in 1628. There was drinking, dancing and frisking going on for days. The west is fascinated with the symbolism of Linga of Hindus. It is a symbol of creation of the world by Father God and Mother Goddess. I bet it sounds familiar and brings to memory some Biblical passages. Hindus call them Siva and Parvati (Kali is an aspect of Parvati.) In Bible, creation takes place without Mother Goddess. Father God alone does it as if he cloned himself. It is not so in Hindu thinking.
When we visit the Washington Monument and the Temple of Siva and view them (Monument and Lingam), we do not think of its phallic symbolism. We only think of how great President Washington was and how supreme Siva is. The prurience of symbolism gives way to appreciation and reverence. To all of us Washington Monument is as sacred as the Lingam (the Sign of Siva) is sacred to the Hindus. One is a towering man and the other is the Towering God. He was towering, alright. The legend says Siva stood once as a fiery column of fire scraping the firmament and digging deep into the netherworld. Linga literally means a sign, so Washington Monument is a sign of Washington, and Lingam is a sign of Siva.
Woodroffe: The same effect on the other hand is not seldom produced in the Western at the sight of the terrible forms in which India has embodied Her vision of the undoubted Terrors which exist in and around us. All is not smiling in this world. Even amongst persons of the same race and indeed of the same faith we may observe such differences. Before the Catholic Cultus of the "Sacred Heart" had overcome the opposition which it at first encountered, and for a considerable time after, its imagery was regarded with aversion by some who spoke of it in terms which would be to-day counted as shocking irreverence. These differences are likely to exist so long as men vary in mental attitude and temperament, and until they reach the stage in which, having discovered the essential truths, they become indifferent to the mode in which they are presented. We must also in such matters distinguish between what a symbol may have meant and what it now means. Until quite recent times the English peasant folk and others danced around the flower-wreathed Maypole. That the pole originally (like other similar forms) represented the great Linga (Phallic symbol) admits of as little doubt as that these folk, who in recent ages danced around it, were ignorant of that fact. The Bishop's mitre is said to be head of a fish worn by ancient near-eastern hierophants. But what of that? It has no such associations now. --Woodroffe (1865-1936)
To see, study, and worship Kali is a metatheistic exercise; her anima belies her persona. A superficial tinker will be repulsed and a deep thinker will become a devotee of Kali. Such a person is Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.
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1.Kali standing on evil man 2.Kali standing on Siva 3.Virtus standing on evil man
Here are the pictures of Mother Goddess (Magna Mater) Kali, and Virtus standing on evil man. Mother Goddess shows the liberating stance (of Kali) in the 2nd picture by standing on supine Siva, her consort whose eyes are wide open and bright looking at his consort.
| The English words father, mother, brother and sister are (derived from) cognate with Sanskrit: pitar, mātar, bhrātr, and svasar. Sanskrit was the First Spoken and Written Language in this world. The universe of alphabets, words and languages originated from Mother Goddess, Kali. |
It is held natural to worship Her as Mother. The first Mantra into which all men are initiated is the word Ma (Mother). It is their first word and generally their last. The father is a mere helper (Sahakāri-mātra) of the Mother. The whole world of the five elements also springs from the Active Consciousness or Sakti, and is Her manifestation (Purna-vikasa), Therefore men worship the Mother than whom is none more tender, saluting Her smiling beauty as the rosy Tripurasundari, the source of the universe, and Her awe-inspiring grandeur as Kali, who takes it back into Herself. --Woodroffe
Jesus uses the word abba (father) 170 times to describe God's relationship to humans and his very nature. In Tamil we call father APPA («ôÀ¡) mother Amma («õÁ¡). ABBA and APPA are cognate with Pitar, Patar or pater. In Tamil, it is common to address Father God as Appan (= «ôÀý). Tamil 'Amma' and Hebrew 'Ima' mean mother.
Black Madonna is a depiction of Mary with the child in black skin. It is generally agreed from the depiction of Mary in European images that Mary had a black face and hands in their true color. These European images of black Mary are separate and distinct from Madonna of African and African-American tradition. The Black Madonnas of Europe are original medieval statues and icons of black color. The European Black Madonnas have European features. (Mary is not European.) The pale alabaster face is a post-medieval development. Students of comparative religion are of the opinion that Black Madonnas are the descendants of pre-Christian Mother-Goddess. The belief is that Mary and Jesus were most likely of Semitic colors and features. Some say that blackness goes with fertility, life, death and spirituality. --wikipedia
My observation of Black Madonna: The almost circular conjoined dual golden halo enclosing the head of Black Madonna and Black Child Jesus is very reminiscent of the icon of Om (AUM), the sacred Mantra of Hindus.
Roman Anna Perenna and Hindu Annapurna (Kali's other name): What is common between them?
Anna Perenna is the Roman deity and a thematic Roman namesake of Anna Purna of Hindus. Anna Purna is no other than Kali among her many names: Durga, Parvati, Uma, Sati, Gauri.... Romans offered sacrifices to Anna Perenna for a happy and healthy year. The celebrants of course had wine flowing in an endless stream. They drank wine by the cups; each imbibed cup meant one more happy and healthy year into the future. What Romans knew many eons ago, the scientists of today are discovering, that a two glass shot of wine prolongs life and ensures health by protecting the heart with normal or high Heavy Density Lipoproteins (HDL Cholesterol). The only thing they did not know was the ill effects of drinking wine from lead-containing wine goblets and water from lead pipes, which presumably caused lead poisoning among the Romans. I believe the water in the lead pipes was relatively safe because the inner surface of the lead pipe developed a protective coating from the minerals in water so that the lead did not leach out from the pipes into the water. This was not the case with wine imbibed from wine goblets. The lead leached out into the wine from the goblet. The boisterous and drunken revelry went on for days. When plebeians ran out of food after fleeing from the patricians, Anna baked cakes and fed the plebeians. That is how she became a goddess of food and long life. Calling her a kitchen goddess as some do, does not merit notice. She is the nurturing goddess.
Now let us find out who AnnaPurna is. Her complete name is Annapurnesvari. Anna Purna means Food Aplenty in Sanskrit.. Thus the goddess is personification of Food Aplenty. She is no other than Kali aka Durga, the Divine spouse of Siva Himself. She is Mother Goddess who gives life, feeds and nurtures and into whom we get absorbed upon our death. She provides food for people. The temple in Karnataka provides free food to the visitors daily (free of cost) even today. She has the famous shrine in Benares (Kasi, Varnasi). Sankaracharya (788-820 CE), the famous Non-dual Philosopher says: My Mother is Goddess Parvati (Annapurna), my father is Supreme Lord Mahesvara (Siva). My relatives are the devotees of Lord Siva and the three worlds are my motherland. Anna Purna temple in Horanadu in Karnataka State (which I visited), India for Goddess Annapurna is depicted below.
Viparita Maithuna of Kali (Female Superior position) is symbolic of creative fervor, while standing on top of Siva as in image is symbolic of liberating stance of the Mother Goddess. Creative fervor is of beings and matter; Liberating stance is taking the universe and beings back into Her (by liberating or emancipating the souls). Siva is portrayed in many forms, of which one is an ithyphallic Yogi.
The quiescent Siva-aspect is by its definition inert. It is because of this that the Devi is in the Tantras symbolically represented as being above the body of Siva, who lies under Her like a corpse (Sava), As the Kubjikā-Tantra, Ch. I, states, it is not Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Rudra, who create, maintain and destroy, but their Saktis, Brahmānī, Vaisnavī, Rudrāṇī. See Prana-tosini:, 9. Activity is the nature of Prakrti (SaṁkhyaPravacana Sutra, III. 66). For the same reason the female form is represented in sexual union as being above (Viparita) the male. When the Devi stands above Siva, the symbolism also denotes (particularly in the case of Kali) the liberating aspect of the Mother. See" Principles of Tantra." Woodroffe, The Serpent Power page 27.
Woodroffe, page 101 Serpent Power: In Viparita Maithuna Sakti is above Siva, and moving on and in coition with Him because She is the active, and He (Siva) the inert consciousness. In the sexual symbolism of the SAkta-Tantras, seed (Bindu) issued upon the reversed union of MahAkAla and MahAkAli, which seed, ripening in the womb of Prakrti, issued as Kundali in the form of letters (Aksara). Inert Siva is Niskriya and active Sakti is Sakrya.
The conventional fecundating position goes by several names: Angelic Position, Manner of Serpents, Mama-Papa Position. English-American Position and the Male Superior Position. The published literature states that missionary position is a religiously prescribed prone male-superior position and thus the name came about. Now you know how the humanity all over the world was obliged to follow sacerdotal injunctions when it came to pheromonal impulsions; fecundation becomes a religious ritual act; this is especially true in Hinduism which asserts every human act is dedicated to the Lord.
Bible says that Adam had two
wives, the first one, Lilith, the First Red Head in Christian Tradition, and the
second one, Eve with brown hair (the First Brunette). Lilith in her wisdom
thought that Adam and she are equal and thus refused to sleep with or serve
'under him' in their consortium. Adam insisted on male-superior position, which
upset Lilith and so she flew away from Eden and consorted with demons,
conceiving by the hundreds every day. (No wonder the demons of today are her
progeny.) This is the beginning of marital discord of humanity. The First
Couple separated paving the way for divorce that is ubiquitous all across the
world. God could not persuade Lilith to come back to Adam and so made Eve from
Adam's rib to be his second wife. Lilith was upset at being branded an ogre.
Lilith morphed into a serpent and slithered
into the Garden of Eden and tricked Eve into eating the forbidden fruit from the
Tree of Knowledge of good and evil. From that moment on, humanity was going
downhill. Hindus call this era, Kaliyuga. The erstwhile wise Biblical serpent of
wisdom and rebirth was downgraded and ostracized because of its trickery on Eve
and Adam and thus on mankind. Adam, to begin with, was a strict fruitarian as
the ancient Seers, Rishis and Ascetics of India, who picked and ate only fallen
fruits. Later it is presumed Adam ate meat.
(Factoid: Yes, Adam was eating only apples which kept him away from doctors, so he lived for 930 years. Thus, Adam ate 339,450 (930 X 365) apples in his lifetime; the day he forgot to eat the apple, he died.) God created Adam from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, causing him to become a living soul. Hindus call it Prana, the breath or the vital airs that drive every organ in the body. God created Adam on October 20, 4004 BC at 9.00 AM. Adam named all the animals and did not find anybody looking like him. God made a suitable companion for Adam from his rib while Adam was asleep. God gave Eve to Adam as his wife and thus established the institution and the law of marriage. Adam the First Man named the First Woman (actually Lilith was the first woman) Eve, which means 'the mother of all living.'
Because both of them ate the forbidden fruit, Adam became the First working man toiling as a field hand in the fields of thorns and thistles. Eve was consigned to suffer the pangs of labor for her infraction. Once God uttered these decrees, Adam named the First Woman Eve, only after he named the animals first. Eve's creation after Adam and her deception by the snake made her look weak in the eyes of the church and was responsible for the Second Banana status of the woman in the church holding no authority over men. They were unaware of their nakedness to begin with in their pristine innocence; once they consumed the forbidden fruit, they became aware of their nakedness and stitched fig leaves together to hide their shame. This 2nd Banana status would last until the world wars broke out; the men were fighting in foreign lands and needed Eve's hands to do Adam's job at home.
God brought the married couple to the Garden of Eden and told them to eat plants other than the tree of knowledge or its fruits. Adam lived for 930 years and died in the year 3074 BC.
Possibly because of reputation of red-headed Lilith, many thousands of red-headed women with freckles in erstwhile Europe and Egypt were tortured and went literally through Fire and Water (burnt and immersed) and never emerged alive.
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Evolution of Judeo-Christian tradition of animal sacrifice and its end. Kali is offered animal sacrifice. Bible: Creation of animals, man and woman. God allowing eating of meat. Sacrifice of animals to please God. Jesus Christ offers his body for the sins of others. Sanctification by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, thus terminating animal sacrifices in Judeo-Christian tradition. Genesis 9.3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. Psalms 104. 27 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season. Sacrifice to expunge the sins or to please God. Sanctification comes after Jesus Christ gives his body for the sins of others, thus stopping the sacrifice of animals. Leveticus 1.2 Speak
unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an
offering unto the LORD,
ye shall bring your offering of the cattle,
even of the herd, and of the flock.
Deuteronomy15.19 All the firstling males
that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD
thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock,
nor shear the firstling of thy sheep. Leveticus 5.7 And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.
Stop the Sacrifice Hebrews 10.4: For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Hebrews 10.9: then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. Christian tradition initiated. Death of Jesus Christ nullified and obviated the need for animal sacrifices. Hebrews 10.10: By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Hebrews 10.11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. Hebrews 10.16:This is the covenant that I will make with them. after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; Hebrews 10.17: and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Hebrews 10.18: Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. |
In Buddhist icons and sacred texts, depiction of Maithuna or sexual union carries an illustrative import: Enlightenment or Nirvana cannot be attained by wisdom or compassion (right action) alone, but by a combination of both. This union of male compassion and female wisdom produces Nirvana. Saktas (Mother Goddess worshippers) believe that proper performance of Maithuna leads an aspirant from physical to spiritual awareness. During the worship of Yantra, two flowers are used to portray Maithuna: AparAjjta flower resembling the female genitalia and Karavi (Caraway seed) portraying Linga (phallus). Clitoria Ternatea (AparAjitA flower) If you see Labia Majora (Outer Lips), Minora (Inner Lips) and Clitoris in this image of the flower, you are right and that is why it is named, Clitoria Ternatea. Thus the flower represents the Goddess.
Woman is more of a geometric perfection than man. See the depiction of women in circles, arches, ovals, quadrangles, triangles, pentagons....
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The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Volume 6 [ Page : 115 ] NOTES TAKEN DOWN IN MADRAS, 1892-93 .Educate your women first and leave them to themselves; then they will tell you what reforms are necessary for them. In matters concerning them, who are you? Swami Vivekananda 1892-93 Madras/Chennai |
Triangle in many cultures indicates the gender of human or Deity, based primarily on Escutcheon. Up triangle = Male; Down triangle = Female. If you see the pattern of distribution of pubic hair (Escutcheon), the female escutcheon is a Down Triangle with apex pointing down on the Mons Veneris (Mound of Venus), while the mature male escutcheon tapers upwards towards the navel as in Up Triangle. Interlocking triangles in Judaism has many explanations. One such explanation is the layout of directions by the points and the center. If you see the Hindu Mandalas or Yantras, you will notice triangles. The up triangle represents a God while Down triangle is Goddess. See Kali Yantra below.
Yantra means Engine or Instrument, representing the body of the Goddess. It could be flat on paper or three dimensional as in a structure. When meditating on the Goddess, one leaves behind the physical world and his body and takes the mind and the soul from the periphery of the Yantra to the very epicenter for union with goddess. It is a spiritual union because the body stays behind. The most famous devotee of Kali was Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. The Yantra is the microcosmic edition of the macrocosm of the universe.
Kali is the Goddess of Time, Change, and Action. She is the First One to say, "Yes, We Can." The 36 corners of the Kali Yantra are the 36 Tattvas.
TATTVAS-36 The Bindu is the epicenter from which all radiations of the universe proceed and to which they all return. Bindu is the Soul and the Creative aspect of Kali and also the point of return of all souls and universe. In Tantric tradition Kali and Siva abide in Bindu, whose locus is present in the center of five inner inverted triangles, two circles and 8-petal lotus, all surrounded by a square with four gates, outside of which there is the world of happenings. The five inverted triangles one within the other represent the five sheaths of the individual soul: Annamaya Kosa, Pranamaya Kosa, Manonmaya Kosa, Vijnanamaya Kosa and Anandamaya Kosa (Food or physical sheath, Vital Air Sheath, Mind Sheath, Wisdom Sheath, Bliss Sheath). What it means is that our soul wears five layers or shirts made of Food, Breath, Mind, Knowledge, and Bliss going from outside to inside. Food sheath as you know is the physical body. The 15 corners of the five triangles represent 3 pentads: 5 sensory organs (ears for hearing [Ether], skin for touch [Air], eyes for sight [Fire], tongue for taste [Water], and nose for smell [Earth]; 5 motor organs (Larynx for speech, Hands for grasp, Feet for locomotion, Anus for evacuation, and Genitals for procreation; and 5 Tanmatras, Sound, Feeling, Color, Taste, and Odor.
Some pundits say that in the place of Tanmatras, there are five breaths: Prana-vital air, Samana-equalizing air, Apana-downward air, Udana-ascending air, Vyana-pervading air.
BG04 The Circle represents Avidya or spiritual ignorance. Bindu is pure Consciousness. That is ( the circle) where the aspirant drops off his or her spiritual ignorance, before he or she tackles the inner barriers.All forces originate from prāna and all forces subside in prāna, meaning all our activities happen because of our breath. The breaths are anthropomorphized. Udana is the grandfather, Viyana is the father and Apana is the grandson of Udana. (up breath, equal breath, down breath.) VAyu Purana (Chapter 35) says VAyu (Air Element) enters the fetus and becomes part of the soul of the fetus. It is because of VAyu that the fetus develops (Remember, the fetus gets the air-oxygen via the umbilical cord from the mother. ApAna remains in the lower part of the body; UdAna circulates in the upper part of the body; VyAna pervades the whole body; SamAna abides in the joints. Prana means respiration, life, power, movement, sustenance, ....
The two circles are the cycle of birth and death, which we must go beyond to reach the Bindu and bliss of Goddess. Only the pure ones attain liberation and reach the goddess. Going beyond life and death is euphemism for purity. The 8-petal lotus represents the unfolding universe, which consists of the Great Elements, Ether, Air, Fire, Water, and Earth and Anatakarana, the Inner Organ made of Ahamkara, Manas and Buddhi (Ego, Mind and Discriminating Intellect). The Inner Organ is that which communicates with the outer world through the medium of organs as listed above. It also communicates with the soul. As the aspirant travels from the outer regions to the inner region, all the worldly elements drop off; pure spirit goes to the epicenter (Bindu = Point) to commune with the Goddess.
In Christianity, Judaism and Islam, belief in goddess is heresy. Some Christian mystics believe in Virgin Goddess Sophia. Jane Leade a mystic had visions and dialogues with Sophia.
Moon is Goddess. Not one Goddess my friend, but umpteen of them, more precisely 16 of them; all are aspects of Goddess Kali in her form as TPS. Lunar cycle is half waxing and half waning and thus there are 16 aspects of goddess. The reason why the moon waxes and wanes is that 15 goddesses go into the moon making it wax and leave the moon (for the sun) to wane. One Goddess, MahaTripuraSundari (TPS = Kali) is the permanent Resident Goddess of the moon. Forget about what you learnt in High School about waxing and waning of the moon. This is more poetic and romantic than the scientific explanation.
The names of the Tithis (digits of the moon) are 1. Prathama (new moon), 2. Dvitiya (2nd day moon), 3. Tritiya, 4. Chaturthi, 5. Panchami, 6. Shashthi, 7. Saptami, 8. Ashtami, 9. Navami, 10. Dashami, 11. Ekadashi, 12. Dvadashi, 13. Trayodashi, 14. Chaturdashi, and lastly either 15. Purnima (full moon) or 15. Amavasya (new moon). The sixteen-petal lotus represents the 16 tithis or digits of the moon on the bright and the dark side. AmAvAsyA = (amA = together + Vas = to dwell) = The night of the new moon when the sun and the moon dwell together.
The 16 Tithis are under the rule of 16 Nitya Devis [eternal goddesses] or Sodasa Nityas (So + dasa = 6 plus 10): 1.Maha Tripura Sundari, 2.Kamesvari, 3.Bhagamalini, 4.Nityaklinna, 5.Bherunda, 6.Vanhivasini, 7.Maha Vajresvari, 8.Shivadooti (Roudri), 9.Twarita, 10.Kulasundari, 11.Nitya, 12.Neelapataka, 13.Vijaya, 14.Sarvamangala, 15.Jwalamalini and 16.Chidroopa (Chitra). Maha Tripura Sundari is Maha Sakti, the ruler of all and therefore is not visible to the eye. Purnima Moon (Full Moon) contains all Nityas conferring the splendor and brightness to the Full Moon. As the moon wanes, one Nitya leaves the moon for the sun and so on until all Nityas have left for the sun and the moon disappears completely on Amavasya, the new Moon day. Amāvāsya = the day when the sun and the moon dwell together. The Nityas one by one return to the Moon and make it wax again and shine brighter and brighter. Krishna Paksa = dark side of the moon; waning moon; dark side does not mean the geographical dark side of the moon that is not seen by the human eye. The first one to leave the moon is Kamesvari and the last one Chitra; the first one to arrive at the moon is Chitra and the last one Kamesvari. Nitya = the Eternal One.
Here is a depiction of the Waxing Moon and Waning Moon, the Moon being Goddess.
See the Triangle below. Goddess, TPS (Kali) occupies the center and the apex of the triangle. The left side and the base represent waxing moon; the right side represents the waning moon. The numbers indicate the name of the goddess occupying the sides of the triangle. Sukla Paksa = Bright side or Waxing moon. Krishna Paksa = dark side or waning moon. This triangle is part of Sri Yantra. Go to MAHAVIDYAS for details. Krishna literally means darkness or black.
The Chinese have Chang-Ngo, the Moon Goddess. She has a crater in the moon named after her. The Aztec have the Moon Goddess Coyolxauhqui, the sister of Sun God Huitzilopochtli. The Roman Moon Goddess is Diana. The Mayan's Moon Goddess is Ix Chel. The Egyptians have a Moon Goddess in Khons; the Africans, Mawu; and the Greeks, Selene or Luna. The others are Sumerian Nana; Soma of Hindus; Tsuki-Yomi of Japanese....
Significance of snake in Saivism. From Siva and His worship by Sri Swami Sivananda.
Snake On The Body Of Siva and the snake in the garden of Eden.
Serpent is the Jiva or the individual soul which rests upon Siva, the Paramatman or the Supreme Soul. The five hoods mean the five senses or the five Tattvas, viz., earth, water, fire, air and ether. They also represent the five Pranas (breaths), which hiss in the body like the serpent. The inhalation and exhalation are like the hissing of the serpent. Lord Siva Himself became the five Tanmatras, the five Jnanendriyas (Sense organs), the five Karmendriyas (Motor organs) and other pentads (groups of five). The individual soul enjoys the worldly objects through these Tattvas. When the individual attains knowledge through control of the senses and the mind, he finds his eternal resting abode in Lord Siva, the Supreme Soul. This is the esoteric significance of Lord Siva wearing the snake on His body. Lord Siva is absolutely fearless. Srutis declare, “This Brahman is fearless (Abhayam), Immortal (Amritam).” Worldly people are afraid even at the very sight of a snake but Lord Siva is wearing serpents as ornaments on His body. This indicates that Lord Siva is absolutely fearless and immortal. Wearing of serpents by Lord Siva signifies that He is Eternal.
Here is what west thinks of snake associated with Siva, Vishnu, Buddha, Jains and others.
You have your snake and we have ours.
Snake is the guardian of mineral wealth of the earth. Both Siva and Vishnu are associated with snakes. The snake cult existed in India from third millennium B.C. Atharva Veda gives ample evidence of the existence of snake cult. The Indo-Aryans adopted the snake cult from the NAgas, the snake tribe, who the west claims are the brachycephalic Negritos from Africa. Indra, the rain god of Indo-Aryans regarded and treated Vrtra belonging to the serpent race of Ahi, as a toxic composite compost-demon of obstruction, darkness, drought, winter, frost, and clouds fit for proper disposal as if he was toxic like lead, mercury or cadmium.. Vrtra had the power to hold water from any source and thus deprived the Indo-Aryan of precious water. The god of Indo-Aryan, Indra went to battle with the Drought-Demon Vrtra to wrest waters from him. Does it not remind you of Vahagn conquering Dragon-Lord Azhdahak, Atar, the Fire-god and the son of Ahura Mazda conquer Avestan Azhi Dahaka and the son of Mary conquer the Serpent of Garden of Eden?
The power of snake cult was so strong and popular that Buddhists and Jains adopted it. Vaishnavites had a problem having a snake-eating bird Garuda as the First Bird, Ananta-Sesa-snake as the First Snake and Brahma the First-Born sitting tremulously on Vishnu's navel-lotus work for the First God Vishnu without fighting with each other. It is like seeing President Obama preside over ambassadors and a cabinet made of Republicans and Democrats. (Jan, 2009.) Vishnu, the god of conciliation made them respect each other and serve Him well.
Spiritually inclined Buddhists always have the pacific mind. They morphed angry Hindu goddess Tara into a benign Tara. Likewise, they morphed the venomous serpent into a protective one, Mucalinda. When meditating Buddha, receiving enlightenment, was hit by cauliflower-like Cumulonimbus Clouds, cold winds and pelting rain, the Serpent-King Mucalinda emerged from the roots of the Bo Tree, wrapped around him like a shroud in seven circles, spread its humongous hood over his haloed head and protected Buddha for seven rainy days and seven wet nights. The storm died down; lo and behold, the benign serpent morphed into a handsome youth with opposed palms in homage to the Blessed One.
The Jains regard Time as revolving, circular and cyclical as one would see a serpent would hold its tail in its mouth. The Time ascends and descends alternately. Avasarpini is Descending Time; Utsarpini is Ascending Time. Now you know the word for serpent came from Sanskrit, Sarpa/ Sarpin. If it is not Sanskrit, we would call the serpent, 'that thing that slithers'. Unfortunately we are in descending time right now.
Vasuki was the serpent used in churning the Milk Ocean to release the nectar of eternal life. While Vasuki was used as churning rope, it emitted poison which blackened Vishnu. Now you know how, when and why Vishnu turned black from white. It goes to tell you that in this birth one may be white; in next birth he or she may be black, brown.... Ananta-Sesa is the thousand-headed cosmic serpent regarded by the west as the theriomorphic form of Vishnu and is the snake-bed on which Vishnu reclines between destruction and creation. Ananta-Sesa indicates the endless revolutions of time. End of serpent stories.
The Generative Principle or was it a phallic cudgel? http://www.sacred-texts.com . The original text has been revised and new material has been added.
In ancient times, God Priapus was sat on by nubile virgins as a sacrifice to Priapus and a sign of initiation into marital bliss and surety of progeny. Wealthy Romans of yore had phallus-shaped cudgels in their gardens to ensure fertility and prevent theft of the vegetables. Cult of Isis, Venus, Bacchus and Priapus existed in the past. Roman worship of Priapus came from the Egyptians, to whom the Apis, the Sacred Bull was the object of adoration for its generative prowess. (Winter 2008: The charging sacred Bull of Wall Street has morphed into a Bear on prowl.) In Hinduism the sacred Bull is Nandi, the mount of Siva, and the theriomorphic form of Siva according to the students of Siva in the West. The phallus is the sign of creation and a marker for god Bacchus, Priapus, Hercules, Baal, Asher, Osiris and Siva. See Siva's Bull. That is a BULL extraordinaire. There is no bull...in this Bull.
Mutinus was a god with a sanctum in
old Rome, where he sat in His ithyphallic splendor with an adoring erstwhile nubile bride-virgins on his lap, (If you think lap dance is a modern phenomenon, think again) who attained the bliss of deflowering, initiation, and fore-taste by Mutinus before their husbands had the after-taste. (Consider the modern day spring breaks in Europe and UK and the flight of college (boys and) girls to the Mediterranean countries, where they attain the bliss of union with the modern day Mutinus or Priapus. In North America, they fly south of the border.) All this was done to guarantee fertility by Mutinus or Priapus.
Remember the Pole Dancers in
the nightclubs. Now you know what a pole is or for that matter a
Maypole is. The tradition lives on. The Legend lives on.
Those Poles are symbolic of god Priapus
or Mutinus. From Sanskrit
Phal comes the Sanskrit word Phala for
fruit (Tamil 'Palam' = பழம் for fruit), which naturally
means progeny. Sanskrit Phāla
means ploughshare, a common euphemism for
phallus. Earth is regarded as female (Mother Earth) in many cultures. She
waits patiently to be ploughed and seeded. Once she is seeded, she looks up
from below at the heavens patiently waiting for the rain. Such were and are
the attitudes of many cultures. The man-god comes down as rain from heavens.
The Indo-Aryan rain god and the chief of gods, Indra, sends downpour of rain
to germinate the seed. The Indo-Aryans and Indra had a cozy relationship
with each other. The Indo-Aryan supplied Soma (inebriant and hallucinogen) to
Indra, while Indra sent rain in return. Does it not sound like the cozy
relationship between the drug dealers and drug users: dough for dope or dope
for guns? (Jan 2009)In ancient Greece, Membrum Virile (Phallus
, Mèdhra in Sanskrit) was taken in a procession to the Temple of Bacchus and elite corpulent matrons of the city dutifully and reverentially hung floral decorations on Priapus. Sacrosanct phallus was consecrated in the Temple of Liber (Temple of Bacchus)
Liber is an ancient Italian god of wine and vineyards, in later times identified with Bacchus. What Liber is for phallus is Liberia for the female genitals, which were consecrated in the Temple of Liberia. These two deities (pale god and goddess as compared to the real Ones--Siva-Sakti) were the Father and the Mother (Siva-Sakti = Father God and Mother Goddess = Lingam in its labial vestibular pedestal in Hindu temples). From time immemorial in India, the Goddess was represented by the down triangle and the God by the up triangle. The superimposition is Maithuna (consortium).
God Priapus was the much celebrated god of fertility among the ancient Greek poets. An Athenian Oracle was the first to recommend the installation, consecration and worship of god Pri
apus. As the Hindus offer flowers, milk, fruits and other victuals to gods, the ancient Greeks did the same to god Priapus.
Priapus was anointed as the Triphallus to portray the immense size, splendor and effulgence of his fecund principle. Roman Ladies from the elite upper cr
ust of bygone days sat on the gigantic member of Priapus in veneration and adulation pleading with Priapus to accept the first offering of modesty, so that they would be fecund as long as possible with their husbands.God Priapus was so popular among the wom
en, the jealous husbands banished him from the city of Lampascus. Lo and behold, the curse of god Priapus descended on the male members. The curse in the form of 'a fell disease' hit them hard on the most precious landmark of the body: genitalia, groin and inner thighs. Ugh. What was that? Pediculosis Pubis, commonly known as Pubic Louse. Ugh. Ugh. That is a bad place to have a louse (lice) meandering through a hirsute forest and having sanguine supper, breakfast, and lunch.Worse still, these lice defecate right on their meandering jaunts. Or was it Jock itch (tinea cruris)? It is the infection of the superficial layers of the skin with mold-like fungus (dermatophytes). Or was it Eczema? This form affects the genitals, inner upper thighs and buttocks. No one knows. The result is the same: an annoying cumulative urge to alleviate pruritic spasms and compulsions. Pruritis = itch. The wives rejected their husbands outright with disgust and alarm at the sight of their husbands scratching the crotch before elite invited guests and senators of Rome. Every time the louse took a leap from one pilose strand to the next for a bite or sport, the wives saw their husbands do cha-cha-cha as if he was warming up for a dance. The guests couldn't figure out the spasmodic seizures coming in waves on their host. The men's ego deflation was fast and furious. The women's love for Priapus grew by rhythmic leaps and bounds. The Oracle in chief was consulted by deprived husbands and frustrated wives and gave them a prescient advice to invite god Priapus back in their midst. Every garden in the landscape had the god Priapus installed, consecrated, decorated, and worshipped. They painted him red and called him Ruber or Rubicundus. If you are reminded of Rudra, the red god of Hindus, you are right. Rudra is red and no other that Siva Himself and the spouse of Kali, who sports the form of Lingam. Sacrifices were made throughout the land with vegetables, fruits, dairy products and animals. So do the Hindus make offering to Rudra-Siva Lingam. The words Rudra, red, ruddy, ruber, ruby, rouge, rubicund, rubiola, rubious denote or are associated with red color, another instance of Sanskrit being the mother of Indo-European languages.The future of Priapus was doomed, as the god was blamed for the ills and orgies of the society. His statue stands in the orchards as a scarecrow to scare off the thieving birds, the man-thieves, and children. What degradation to Priapus who stood tall among mortals! The deflowering god, who took delight in strewing the picked fragrant hymenal petals all around the pudendum, became the lowly village deity relegated to flower-beds, gardens and fields. The god-son of Dionysus and Aphrodite, Priapus, because of his connection to fertility, was represented by the carvings of fig-tree, oak, cypress, marble or wheat-dough. These are some of the common materials (wood, mushy cooked rice, sand, clay, metal, marble, crystal, stone...) used to create Lingam of Hindu God, Siva, the Consort of Kali. Lord Siva stands tall in the universe from time immemorial, while demiurge Priapus suffered detumescent flaccid lolling degradation in the modern times; even mega-doses of the likes of Cialis or Viagra or their combined cocktail mixture fail to restore the once glorious resplendent towering ego of erstwhile tumescent Priapus, who prided himself as the first and the foremost fore-taster of the pudenda of the world.
Kali is Infinite, Formless and Whole (Aparicchinna, Arupa, Purna), out of which come the finites, the forms and the not-wholes (Paricchinna, Rupa, Apurna). It is Her Maya Sakti that renders Her original into limited and finite beings and objects. Her Consciousness (along with Sentience) sleeps in stone, feels in flora, senses in fauna and thinks in man, but is always truncated, veiled or obliterated in objects and beings--differential endowment of Her Consciousness. Man in his ignorance (Avidya) entertains and sees dissociation between man and man, man and animal, man and objects and animals and objects. This is called Bheda Buddhi, dissociative thinking or dichotomic perception. Man does not understand the oneness of all and oneness with Her; all proceed from Her. You, I, he, she, it and that are one Self. This whole universe is one organism. This is Monism and there is no diremption. A single Supreme Consciousness percolates down the Suddha, Suddha-Asuddha and Asuddha Tattvas, endows some of them with varying degrees of consciousness and yet does not diminish in its original splendor. TATTVAS-36
Lucius Apuleius writes in The Golden Ass (AD160) about Goddess, "I am nature, the universal Mother, mistress of all elements, primordial child of time, sovereign of all things spiritual, queen of the dead....Though I am worshipped in many aspects, known by countless names, propitiated with all manner of different rites, yet the whole round earth venerates me." Translation by Robert Graves.
The above statement could have been made by Kali; the only difference is that Kali swallows Time meaning that Time is in her and that She is not the Child of Time, rather She is the Mother of Time and transcends Time. She is the queen of the living and the dead.
Siva, when he is in the company of Mahavidyas, always plays a lesser role: Tara and Kali stand on supine Siva, while Tripura Sundari sits on him. This is subordinationism where Kali is the First; Siva, Brahma and Vishnu come in second; all else (We the People) come third.
1.On your left is Kali standing on a demon with her left foot on his chest. (Demons are Passion, Anger, Greed...)
2. Goddess Kali standing on her consort Siva.
Goddess Kali shows her defiance to her consort, and her independence. Here defiance means that She offers liberation to the souls (Her Children).
3.Goddess Virtus standing on Mr. Tyranny (The great seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia).
CODE
OF VIRGINIA official description:
Section 7.1-26. The great seal. The great seal of
the Commonwealth of Virginia shall consist of two metallic discs, two and
one-fourth inches in diameter, with an ornamental border one fourth of an inch
wide, with such words and figures engraved thereon as will, when used, produce
impressions to be described as follows:
On the obverse, Virtus, the
genius of the Commonwealth, dressed as an Amazon, resting on a spear in her
right hand, point downward, touching the earth; and holding in her left hand, a
sheathed sword, or parazonium,
pointing upward; her head erect and face upturned;
her left foot on the form of
Tyranny represented by the
prostrate body of a man, with his
head to her left, his fallen crown nearby, a broken chain in his left hand, and
a scourge in his right. Above the group and within the border conforming
therewith, shall be the word "Virginia," and, in the space below, on a curved
line, shall be the motto, "Sic Semper
Tyrannis--Thus
Always to Tyrants."
On the reverse, shall be
placed a group consisting of Libertas, holding a wand and pileus in her right
hand; on her right, Aeternitas, with a globe and phoenix in her right hand; on
the left of Libertas, Ceres, with a cornucopia in her left hand, and an ear of
wheat in her right; over this device, in a curved line, the word "Perseverando."
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down, and out, and desperate for a non-pharmacologic pick-me-up, a slap on
the face (I needed that), a knock on the forehead, a kick on the butt,
a nudge with the elbow, a tug on your T-shirt..., go and get insulted by
none other than Shakespeare himself; this is where you go for a fix:
http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/ I took these insults in stride. Thou loathed issue of thy father's loins! (That is enough, Time out --Krishnaraj) Taken from: Richard III, Shakespeare. You, minion, are too saucy. (Are you talking to me?-- Krishnaraj) Taken from: The Two Gentlemen of Verona Thou mammering rampallian lewdster! (What do you mean? --Krishnaraj)
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David Kingsley in the book Mahavidyas (page 83) says the following:
Kali's gaping mouth and lolling tongue, her appearance and habits generally, are unquestionably repulsive to our ordinary sensibilities. In Tantra, this is probably precisely the point. What we experience as disgusting, polluted, forbidden, and gruesome is grounded in limited human (or cultural) consciousness, which has ordered, regimented, and divided reality into categories that serve limited, ego-centered, selfish conceptions of how the world should be. Kali, in her rude way, deconstructs these categories, inviting those who would learn from her to be open to the whole world in all of its aspects. She invites her devotees, like Ramakrishna, to dare to taste the world in its most disgusting and sacrality, which is the Great Goddess herself. End of David Kingsley quote.
In the Dakshinesvar temple, black Kali stands on supine white Siva with wide-open eyes with her right foot planted over his chest, where the heart is and the left foot on his right thigh. Siva's eyes are transfixed on his consort. Her right side is all goodness and motherly love and her left side is all destruction. Kali comes in many forms of which two are mentioned here. One is the benign kind and the other is the fierce kind. Benign Kali (Dakshina) keeps the right foot forward planted on the chest of Siva with her left hand holding the sword; fierce Smasāna (cremation ground) Kali holds the left foot forward with the sword on the right hand. Kali is the Creatrix-Victrix-Genetrix.
The View from the West.
(Old Western cultures depict some Venus figures (Venus-Aphrodite-Victrix-Genetrix) as the corpulent matriarch who is a goddess of fertility and pregnancy, houses the fetus (creative, sheltering, nourishing and protective), begets, and nurtures the infants. That is the good side of the Goddess. Victrix = Bringer of Victory; Genetrix = Begetting Mother. The Greek Aphrodite, the goddess of love, beauty and fertility, was the cynosure and love of all gods. Greek Aphrodite became the Roman Venus. She emerged from the foam of the sea as the Hindu Goddess Lakshmi emerged from the churning sea and later married Vishnu. Upper Paleolithic culture spanning from Siberia to France depicts an ivory figure with exaggerated breasts (that rival and excel today's silicon implants), protuberant belly and callipygian hemispheres: this is the fertility goddess. Aphrodite-Venus is said to have caused the Trojan War. Venus is associated with the Mesopotamian Ishtar. The Mother Goddess is often in many cultures depicted as Virgin, Mother and Crone. Kali in the form of Sodasi is the virgin. Kali is the Mother from whom the whole creation proceeds; Dhumavati is the crone. She is all in One. Another reason why back in the mist of time a woman was an object of wonder and veneration was that she survived her monthly bleeding as witnessed by clueless men. Bleeding was a feared event because the men died after a significant bleed when gored by the irate hunted animals. Here is a woman who bleeds like clockwork (like the Old Faithful that upchucks steaming jets of water on cue from the bowels of the earth) and survives the periodic hemorrhage unlike the peevish, petulant pale men who die bleeding. The western authors say that the mystic and myth of woman being goddess waned when the hunter-gatherer transitioned to agrarian and cognized his mite in the reproductive physiology while observing the breeding of his livestock. Father God took precedence to Mother Goddess who eventually waned into oblivion in the west.
Before the rendition and oblivion of goddess into extinction in the west, the west says that the western goddess was the Feral Hunter (think of tigress) and so was much feared. She doled out love to those who worshipped her. Celtic goddess of Martial Arts and War Brigid was the patroness of Druids, a metallurgist (taught mankind to forge metal), a repository of inspiration, and a protector of maidens, young brides and parturient women. She is the antithesis of Priapus who consensually deflowered the luscious maidens. He was a serial deflowerer. Christian patriarchy has destroyed the goddess for good. The female Trinity of Maiden, Mother and Crone underwent a spiritual masculinizing genitoplasty into Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. This gender reassignment by spiritual reconstruction has had its repercussions in the dichotomized civilizational role of male (dominance) and female (subservience) until recently when the women were liberated, enfranchised and admitted into the work force. And yet there are no goddesses in the West but plenty of Divas, who are not really goddesses. Diva: a distinguished female singer; prima donna. Diva is derived from Deva, a divine being in Sanskrit. Diva is no match to Devi (goddess in Sanskrit). In the world, you have anion and cation; you have yin and yang; you have lunar woman and solar man, you have Anima and Animus; in the West, you have a god; where is the goddess? There is no symmetry or perfection without goddess.
Joseph Campbell in The Power of Myth (page 171-173) says the following, " Of course, in biblical times, when the Hebrews came in, they really wiped out the Goddess. The term for the Canaanite goddess that is used in the Old Testament is " the Abomination." ...Many of the Hebrew kings are condemned in the Old Testament for having worshipped on the mountaintops. Those mountains were symbols of the Goddess. (Think of Wyoming's The Grand Tetons. Teton = Breast) And there was a very strong accent against the Goddess in the Hebrew, which you do not find in the Indo-European mythologies. ....our own western subjugation of the female is a function of biblical thinking.... In the Old Testament you have a God who creates a world without a goddess." --Joseph Campbell.
In the Old Testament, there is no direct mention of goddess. The mountains, the mounds, the knolls and the hills were where the goddess was worshipped. Impurity, abomination, fertility cult, nature worship, paganism, irreligion were some the terms used for goddess worship.
Clare Gibson says: The veneration of the Goddess was virtually universal by around 3000 BC; between 1800 and 1500 BC Judaism had begun to demonize her.
The Virgin Birth Vs. the virgin stalkers in heaven or hell
In Christian tradition, the concept of virgin birth is beautifully explained by Joseph Campbell. When a man awakens at the level of the heart (Anahata Chakra of Kundalini), a point of compassion, he takes a virgin birth: it is the god who emerges in him or her. The previous physical birth is not virgin birth. The lower centers of the Pelvic Basin and abdomen (Muladhara, Svadhisthana, and Manipura Chakras of aggression) are not refuted but transcended; they become subject to and servant to the heart. That is in essence Virgin Birth. Today's malcontents, sociopaths and terrorists in the hope of consorting with myriad virgins in the afterlife fail to attain Virgin Birth in this life. The virgins in heaven upon whiffing the downwind of the terrorists will become incorporeal and thus escape any contact with the fleet-footed egregious killers. Or the celestial virgins in the fashion of Daphne in Greek mythology may become laurel trees (Laurus nobilis) to save themselves from the amorous pursuit of the erstwhile killers. The ghosts of his victims will be hounding them for eternity.
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New York Times dated April 23, 2009 Op-Ed Columnist article titled,
Islam,
Virgins
and
Grapes.
The following is the excerpt. 'One scholar at the Notre Dame conference, who uses the pseudonym Christoph Luxenberg for safety, has raised eyebrows and hackles by suggesting that the “houri” promised to martyrs when they reach Heaven doesn’t actually mean “virgin” after all. He argues that instead it means “grapes,” and since conceptions of paradise involved bounteous fruit, that might make sense. But suicide bombers presumably would be in for a disappointment if they reached the pearly gates and were presented 72 grapes.' End of NYT article. Houri: Houri in Islam means several things: chaste females restraining their glances; modest gaze; wide eyes; beautiful eyes; eyes like pearls; VIRGINS with bodies not affected by pregnancy or breast-feeding; companions of equal age; non-menstruating, non-urinating, non-defecating and childfree females; transparent to the marrow of their bones; eternally young; hairless except the eyebrows and the head; pure; beautiful; splendid; and much more besides.--- Wikipedia. Unrelated Recommended reading: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. |
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Here is a verse from Koran 5.32. Text and Translation by Maulana Muhammad Alihttp://www.muslim.org/english-quran/quran.htm
005.032 On that account: We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land - it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our apostles with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses in the land. http://www.jannah.org/qurantrans/quran5.html |
Mumbai's most influential Muslim cemetery rejected the corpses of nine of the gunmen (terrorists) and said "Islam does not permit this sort of barbaric crime." People who committed this heinous crime cannot be called Muslim," said Hanif Nalkhande, a trustee of the influential Jama Masjid Trust, which runs the 7.5-acre (three-hectare) Badakabrastan graveyard in downtown Mumbai. While some Muslim scholars disagreed with the decision — saying Islam requires a proper burial for every Muslim — the city's other Muslim graveyards are likely to do the same. Among the 19 foreigners killed were six Americans. The dead also included Germans, Canadians, Israelis and nationals from Britain, Italy, Mexico, Japan, China, Thailand, Australia, Singapore and Mexico. Mumbai Massacre-- Dec 1, 2008. M.F. Husain expatriate painter born in India and living abroad does not like the handiwork of the terrorists and is exhibiting his handiwork in painting at a leading London art gallery -- Dec 10, 2008.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081201/ap_on_re_as/as_india_shooting_261
That you take a virgin birth when you awaken at the level of the heart and that the god emerges in you are an echo of what Ramakrishna Parmahamsa said as follows. Man asks himself the question: who am I? The answer is, "I am Brahman. I am not the body." The meaning is I am the spirit (soul) and not the body that houses the spirit. The imprinting of this theme in one's mind and awakening at Anahata (Heart) Chakra is virgin birth. The Spirit is One which pervades all beings. If one is hurt, all are hurt.
Brahman or God is in the spiritual heart of all beings; if you hurt one being, you hurt the god in the victim and the god in your own heart. You hurt one; you hurt all and the God.
Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene; Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Kali
Mother Goddess worship is still strong in India. So transition to agriculture and animal husbandry alone could not account for the waning of Goddess worship, as advanced by the western students. People in India keep the Goddesses on par with Gods. The pre-Islamic Arabs had goddesses who went into oblivion with the advent of Islam; so also was the fate of the goddesses after the advent of Christ. Virgin Mary, not part of the Holy Trinity, is still regarded to have some vestiges of the Mother Goddess. Consider Mary Magdalene, the allegedly reformed prostitute, who became the disciple of Jesus Christ. Lately her standing (she was never supine.) is revitalized and given a make-over. Her depiction with cascading knee-length blond or red hair, soft lily-white skin with a splash of peachy pink, perfectly delightful corpulence, a sliding, slipping and revealing diaphanous veil over her well-endowed virginal torso with tensile teats, and mournful eyes turned towards heaven indicates a northern-European nulliparous callipygian woman of impeccable virtue, rather than a woman of ease from Magdala, a fishing village in Northern Galilee. Her painted depiction of nobility, nubility, and modesty, free of striae over mammae, abdomen, and hips is in contrast to nullity attributed to her by the pronouncement of Pope Gregory 1 in 591 C.E. and characterization of Mary Magdalene as peccatrix, a sinful woman and NOT as meretrix, a prostitute. PeccAtum = sin. Bible mentions that Jesus cured her of evil spirits (Luke8:2).
meretrix = merre + trix = Earning female. meretr
cius of, pertaining to prostitutes, der. of meretrx prostitute = mere-, s. of merre to earn + -trx -TRIX; see -OUS]. trix is used in English to form feminine nouns (aviatrix; executrix). trix is old English for female. Meretrix is an ugly word in my opinion; it means an earning woman or a working woman, euphemism for a prostitute. nulliparous = being a female that/who has not borne offspring. callipygian = having shapely buttocks. striae = Stretch marks. mammae = Breasts.The Eastern Orthodox Church asserts that Mary Magdalene was a woman of virtue all her life. There are many books which say that Magdalene was the wife of Jesus. Catholic Church and other Christians denounce such a claim. There are others who say that Magdalene was pregnant with the baby of Jesus at the time of his crucifixion. Some claim today's Merovingian lineage wears the genes of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. Some claim Holy Grail is a misnomer and the Real Holy Grail is Mary Magdalene, the receptacle of Jesus' bloodline.
Once Kali appeared before Ramakrishna Paramahamsa as a local prostitute in the sanctum of her own temple. The founder of the Kali Temple Ms. Kumari regarded Kali as a Virgin. Some people recognize only two colors, two sides on everything; there are no shades and colors between the white and the black, the red and the blue, the good and the bad. In like manner, the woman is dichotomized: Virgin and prostitute; it is like two sides of the coin or anything: head and tail; red and blue; black and white. The Hindu idea of a woman, a person, a god, a goddess or a thing is that he, she or it comes from time to time with many shades, colors, sides and qualities, which do not have to be in a perfect fit as in a jigsaw puzzle.
In Mohenjodaro, archeological digs showed female clay figurines with exaggerated female organs. They are the ritual icons of Mother Goddess. Siva appears as ithyphallic Yogi surrounded by deer, buffalo, elephant, rhinoceros and tiger. The reason why He is surrounded by animals is that He is Pasupati. Pasu + Pati = Animal + Lord = Lord of animals. In Sanskrit Pasu also refers to Individual soul. Thus He is the Universal Soul of all individual souls or Lord of souls. In Christian Tradition, the souls about to be redeemed are collectively called the flock; that is Pasu. We are all Pasus of the flock. John 10:16 of Bible says: So there will be one flock, one Shepherd. If you delve further, you notice that the animals live in peace around Him. (We should all live in peace.) The tiger does not devour the deer. If all individual souls flock around Him, there is peace. Peace radiates from Him because Siva is Yogi whose nature transcends Sattva, Rajas and Tamas (Goodness, motion and passion, and darkness). Tantrics say there are three kinds of people: Pasu, Vira and Divya (Animal, Hero-man and Divine man). TANTRA. Remember the English word Diva came from Sanskrit Deva. Sanskrit Vira is cognate with Latin Vir or Wer for man or husband. I postulate the very concept of flock came from India; the proof is earlier depiction of Siva as the Lord of Pasus (individual souls or animals). I advance the theory that the very concept of Pati and Pasu (Lord and the flock in Christian tradition) came from India to abide in Biblical thinking. It is so because Siva is prius Jesus Christ and the oral or written Bible.
Eventually the bull became his Vahana (transport) and the theriomorphic form of Siva, according to western authors. His Sakti or power is the Mother Goddess (Kali). Together they portray Siva-Sakti, the equivalence of 1 and 0, from which the whole universe proceeds. Here is a picture of Lingam in situ in the labial vestibular pedestal.
That 1 and 0 are represented in Lingam on its base. Siva is the first ONE who said, I (Aham). That is Divine Ego, from which all individual egos came later via Sakti. Upon telling Sakti that He is the First One (Numero Uno), she accepted Her position, Zero (0) initially. Here zero does not mean She is a non-entity. That is when the unitary Siva-Sakti (two cotyledons in a seed-Ardhanarisvara or Androgynous Siva) became polarized, gendered and created the Universe and beings. NAda-Sakti looked at Him (Pum Rupa = male form, the One) with longing eyes (Sivon Mukhi = turning towards Bindu-Siva). This is called Mithah Samavaya of Bindu and NAda, mutual agreement or obligation to begin creation. Siva is Consciousness and Bindu; and Sakti is Nada and matter (Prakrti). Being ONE (1) is being lonely. One is no more than ONE without the zero (0). From this union of One and Zero comes all numbers, alphabets, combinations, permutations, fractions, beings, matter, souls, and endless possibilities. You won't have computers without 1 and 0. Now you know why Sakti (Kali) wears a garland of 51 heads representing the 51 Sanskrit alphabets. Why heads: that is where vocal speech (Vikhari speech, the spoken word, articulated speech) originates. If you were repulsed by the garland of heads, now you know the symbolism.
To know about the story of 1 (the origin and dissemination of 0 and numbers) click on the link below (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/previews/storyof1/
Excerpt:
The Indian numbers were a smash hit across the Islamic world before they were finally brought to Europe, where they met fierce resistance. It took 500 years for the battle between Roman and Indian numbers to play out, but by the 16th century, the Indian figures, now commonly called Arabic numerals (Read Indian numerals- my input), finally triumphed - perhaps because Florentine mathematician Fibonacci showed Christian merchants how useful Indian numerals could be, for instance, for calculating profits.
But the story doesn't end there. Within a hundred years, German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz invented a binary system, using the Adam and Eve of mathematics, One and Zero. Since then, as the language of computers, this two-digit binary system has come to dominate every part of modern life.
The story of the number one is the story of Western civilization. Terry Jones ("Monty Python's Flying Circus") goes on a humor-filled journey to recount the amazing tale behind the world's simplest number. Using computer graphics, "One" is brought to life, in all his various guises, in STORY OF 1, airing on PBS Wednesday, March 29, 2006, 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET. One's story reveals how celebrated civilizations in history were achieved, where our modern numbers came from and how the invention of zero changed the world forever - and saved us from having to use Roman numerals today.
Siva's and Sakti's mutual desire gave rise to three things in the universe: He, She, and It; everything in the universe is covered by these three.
The Indus seals were found in Sumerian Ur attesting to the fact that people of Sumeria and Mohenjodaro and Harappa in India were trading partners between 2300 to 2000 B.C.
KAli and Her 12 Functions and aspects according to Subject, Knowledge and Object of Krama system. One has to have a plan, knowledge and executive power to create, maintain and resorb this universe and beings. All these are present in Kali.
Krama is order or proper course of action and does not support either Pratyabhijna or Kula System. Kashmir Saivism. In Krama, God Realization comes one step at a time. The rise of Kundalini Sakti Kundalini Power from lower Chakra to higher Chakra belongs to Krama system, which was introduced into Kashmir Saivism by Sivanadanatha at the end of 7th Century A.D. To begin with he had three female disciples, who later had both male and female disciples. Krama gives precedence only to Sakti. The centerpiece of Krama System is SaktopAya Kashmir Saivism and 12 Kalis. The 12 Kalis are the 12 aspects of one cognition. (Twelve aspects of one person: example: You are the father, the son, the brother, the grandson, the great grandson, the husband, the father-in-law, the grandfather, the great grandfather, the uncle, the brother-in-law, and the son-in-law.) When you see a pot, sensation emerges from your thought and travels to the locus of the pot and then returns back to the thought with particulars of the pot. Perception, cognition, realization of the pot take place in the mind. This is the perception going to object and returning to the subject. These movements are deified and called twelve Kalis in the Krama System.
1) Creation Kali, 2) Preservation Kali, 3) Reabsorption Kali, 4) Indefinable Power of Kali, 5) Mergence Kali, 6) Engulfing Kali, 7) Dissolution (of all) Kali. 8) resorption of senses in Ego-- Homogenization of senses--Kali, 9) resorption of Ego in her Creative power-- Kali, 10) Union of subject in Consciousness --Kali, 11) Union of individual consciousness with Universal I-Consciousness--Kali, 12) Union with Siva Consciousness ---Kali.
Let me explain a few points here. When we come down to earth, we are endowed with soul, consciousness, body, senses, ego, intellect etc. First comes the soul and consciousness, later the body, the organs, senses, ego, mind, Buddhi, Chittam etc. When we make a return journey, the last entity we obtained dissolves first into the preceding entity and this retrograde involution or Reabsorption traces the steps backwards until our soul/consciousness alone stands, which is resorbed into Siva. Kali facilitates this creative downstream cascade and resorptive upstream uptake. All twelve processes are effectuated by Kali.
The first four aspects of Kali are the four powers: 1) Srsti (= Creation), Sthiti (= maintenance), SamhAra (=Dissolution), AnAkhya (Realm beyond words) in relation to object (= prameya). Objects are what Kali creates.
KAli performs 12 functions.
This piece is a highly technical subject in Kashmir Saivism. Let me give you an idea as to how Kali goes about creating this universe. There are three entities: Subject, knowledge and object. Subject is either Kali or the human individual soul and the object is the world or universe.
She has to have an idea of what she wants to create; she has to have a knowledge to create, maintain, take back all and create again. When she takes back, she takes back the senses, the ego and she dissolves all matter. When she takes back the human soul, she integrates the individual soul with the Consciousness of Siva. You become one with the maker.
1) Srsti Kali: She has the Will to create and has an idea as to what they are going to be. She is known as Srsti Kali. This is the nascent idea of creation by Kali of the object. In this stage Kali is gathering knowledge, the stage of PramAna ( = Knowledge and means of Knowledge).
2) Rakta Kali: She is concerned with Sthiti or maintenance of the visible world by the five senses. Here Kali wants to preserve and protect the object she created through the five senses. .
3) SthitinAsa Kali: She withdraws the objective world into Her. Her external form comes to an end and comes to rest in Her. In this aspect of Kali, she tells Herself, 'I have known the object.' 'Been there, done that.' (The object is the world of beings and matter.)
4) Yama Kali: She manifests herself beyond extrovert or introvert aspect and represents the AnAkhyA, indefinable power in relation to objective experience. She goes beyond subject (KAli) and object paradigm to a realm, where the consuming energies of 12 Kalis abide.
5) SamhAra Kali: When Parasamvid, Her Highest Divine Consciousness withdraws into Her all external objects and makes them identical with herself, the aspect of SamhAra Kali emerges. In this aspect of SamhAra Kali, she tells Herself, 'the objects are non-different from me.' The subject and object are one and non-different. Read the lyrics, 'I Am The World' below.
6) Mrtyukali: In this aspect, Mrtyukali engulfs and swallows SamhAra Kali, and internalizes the residual objects and traces of the objective world. This is Sthiti (= maintenance) in the stage of PramAna (= means of knowledge and Knowledge).
7) Bhadrakali: The objects dissolve in Bhadrakali's essential nature. This is SamhAra in the stage of PramAna. Her other name is Rudrakali.
8) MArtanda Kali: MArtanda is sun or god of sun. The cluster of 12 Indriyas or organs is called sun because they illuminate the objects like the sun. The 12 Senses are five sense organs, five motor organs and Manas and Buddhi. She dissolves the 12 senses in Ego or Ahamkara. She is AnAkhyA, indefinable power in relation to PramAna, the means of Knowledge. She goes beyond the PramAna paradigm, where the consuming 12 Saktis abide. The 12 senses have lost their name and individuality upon dissolution in Ego. What she created, she is absorbing : the body, the senses etc. Senses and body are gone.
The four stages 5 to 8 are the four powers of Kali in relation to PramAna (= means of knowledge). All that Kali (Subject) does is knowledge in relation with the world, the beings....
The four stages of Kali from 9 to 12 represent Kal's four powers in relation to ParamAta (= the limited subject with only Anava Mala).
9) ParamArkakAli: She is the creative power in relation to the limited subject. She merges Ahamkara in her Creative Power. The limitations of object and senses are annihilated. This limited subject is not the one with three Malas but with only Anava Mala. He is the Pasu with Anava Mala, 2 notches above the Pasu with 3 Malas. Primer in Saiva Siddhanta
10) KAlAgnirudrasakti: When Parasamvid, the Highest Divine Consciousness, merges the individual soul with the Universal Self, she is called KAlAgnirudrasakti. Kali represents the power of Sthiti (= Maintenance) in relation to PramAta ( = the limited subject) to rest in Her Universal Self. The Subject dissolves in the Consciousness. The experience of KAlAgnirudrasakti at this level is, 'I am all this.' Her other name is MahakAli, because She has in Her everything inside Her including Time.
11) MahAkAlakAli: She dissolves the individual 'I' in the universal Perfect 'I' which is free from all objects. This is the ultimate absorption or SamhAra in relation to limited subject.
12) MahABharaiva-Ghora-CandakAli: This state of Kali is AnAkhyA in relation to the limited subject. This is beyond all characterization in words. This is Akula stage (= Siva). Here PramAtA, PramAna and Prameya (subject, means of knowledge and object) are all dissolved in I-Consciousness. This is ParA (= Supreme or highest) because all previous states are her manifestation ante Akula state is Siva state. The other name for MahABharaiva-Ghora-CandakAli is MahABhairavaGhora CandaKali, where in Canda is the realm of Prameya (=Subject), Ghora is Prameya ( = Knowledge and means of knowledge), and MahaBhairav is PramAtA ( = Subject).
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5) SamhAra Kali: When Parasamvid, Her Highest Divine Consciousness withdraws into Her all external objects and makes them identical with herself, the aspect of SamhAra Kali emerges. In this aspect of SamhAra Kali, she tells Herself, 'the objects are non-different from me.' The subject and object are one and non-different. Read the lyrics, 'I Am The World' below. |
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The following piece is written by me. It is waiting for approval from Maureen Dowd!
Saktas believe that male descended from the First Female and this is the learned view of the geneticists too. This information may fluster Adam because he believes that Eve came from him. Adam's presumed and unproven donation to male of the species is the Y chromosome which is not as robust as it once was, and shrinking and wasting away. Consider the gene-poor Y chromosome equal to a cash-poor wallet.
The Meiotic Chaos
Compare the robust size of X chromosome with its counterpart, a runt (the Y)
lined up by its side. There is an element of nurture in X so an embryo with YO
(absent X) does not go to term; an XO can go to term, though not normal. The Y
is a loner; the Y rejects the advances of X to exchange genes except at the ends
(PAR- PseudoAutosomal Region, 5% of Y and
yet containing 72% of genes for recombination), when they do the dance of "give
and take." The rest of DNA on the Y belongs to
"boys-only-club," also known as
NRY (non-recombining region
of Y constituting 95% of the Y chromosome), which does not participate in
recombination of exchange. There are 20 genes here, some of which doing the
housekeeping functions and being copies of genes on the X and the other genes
enhancing male fertility and having many copies in Y. The housekeeping
genes are found elsewhere in other organs. The Y has been an immigrant haven for
new genes. Copies of DAZ
fertility genes from chromosome 3 found their way to live in the Y chromosome.
DAZ genes find expression only in testis. (DAZ
= Deleted in
AZoospermia. Azoospermia = no
sperms in the fluid) Some males with infertility lack the
The immigrant genes kept it alive (like the immigrants to America kept it progressive); otherwise the Y would have attained extinction. Over ages, the immigrant genes die off. There is no new "real blood" coming into Y. Will Y waste away and come to a naught? The laconic Y is short, dense and wasting way; it will take 10 million years for the Y to become a shell of its former self. Just like before, an event will take place in the chromosomes and the SRY (Sex-Determining Region Y) gene will come into being.
SRY gene codes for Testis Determining Factor (TDF) or SRY protein. Mutations in SRY leads to XY females (Gonadal Dysgenesis or Swyer Syndrome). Translocation of part of the Y chromosome containing SRY gene to the X chromosome casuses XX male Syndrome. SRY gene, if damaged in male fetus, results in Genotype males, and phenotype females.
Its (Y) size does not match Its hyperbole, haughtiness, hubris, and bombast. The house of Y is mostly junk (respectfully called non-coding DNA). They (sperm) march by millions to assault one ovum with hardy accouterment, loaded with nourishment, so a lonely sperm can enter the premises for companionship and progeny. All the other prospective suitors die in battle, as one princely critter enters the once impregnable fortress and makes a mark with an X or a Y. The little runt has a big ego; it has the ability to morph the primary default state of femaleness of the embryo into a male, if the critter carries the Y (SRY). The critter says in effect, "I am the greatest; I punched a hole and broke through the formidable fortress; it is me who decides whether the progeny is male or not." SRY gene has some very Extraordinarily Primitive Qualities: SRY is Intronless gene. Most of the human genes have introns--non-coding regions. SRY is all Exons. Bacterial and Fungal genes have no introns. Now you see how primitive SRY is. SRY Exon gene is the cause of Hastiness in males. SRY gene is all business, neither a prologue nor an epilogue nor a nicety; it does not waste time but cuts to the chase. It is impatient and efficient to its cause :*)
By the way scientists discovered the female chromosome first and called it X; yes it looks like an X and it is big in metaphase (153 million base pairs--2000 genes). They could not find the Male Critter Chromosome because it was tiny. When they discovered it, it was named Y (60 million base pairs--78 genes).
Genetically
speaking, Y came
into being from X about 300 million years ago.
Adam can draw little comfort from that
notion. Even worse, the X and Y were not sex chromosomes to begin with;
they were autosomes before they became sexy. The future Y chromosome was a copy
of X chromosome. Where is the male pride here? And a mere copy at that. Some
call the Y, X-degenerate. What would Adam say to this? The males don't draw any
comfort from that scientific fact. The scientists traced the X and the Y
chromosome backwards and found them not sexy but very unsexy autosomes.
The X is a repository of thousands of genes, while the Y is the poor - but
proud- owner of a few dozen. A dozen or so of the genes (27) shared by the
X and Y look like fossils from which scientists reconstructed the evolutionary
story of the X and the Y. The fossil genes are neatly arranged at the tips
of the X chromosome, which speaks of good housekeeping. The Y chromosome fossil
genes in a typical fashion are strewn up and down the length of the Y
chromosome; this may explain why bachelor's dormitory rooms are in disarray.
Anagram: Dormitory = Dirty Room.
It is an evolutionary curse. Normal chromosomes exchange genes, when they line
up during sperm or egg formation, just like children exchange baseball cards. By
doing this mutual reciprocal exchange, the pairs know that they belong to each
other; if they do not recombine, the two may go their own separate ways
and take other forms. This exchange or recombination was suppressed in the
distant past during evolution. The blame goes to Y because Y moved the genes by
taking chunks of DNA and flipping them upside down: inversion. Inversion
event is the way Y frustrates X. This is the temper tantrum of Y which flings
the genes into places where the X cannot find and make reciprocal exchange.
It is no wonder that Israelite men were wandering in the desert for forty years
without a clue of their destination. They could have taken a hint from their
spouses. They could have asked
Three hundred million years ago--give or take a few million years-- one of the unsexy autosomal pair (the future sex chromosome) underwent mutation and became the sex chromosome which looked identical at first and later one started sporting SRY gene--Sex-determining Region Y. The original partner without the SRY gene stayed the X chromosome. Then the chromosomes did not determine the sex of the progeny. Environmental stimulus like temperature determined the sex of the progeny. Turtles and crocodile still follow the old-fashioned ways.
First the mammal chromosomes parted company with the birds 240-320 million years ago; autosomes became the sex chromosomes and Y acquired the SRY gene and X was deficient in SRY; we parted company with duck bill platypus 130-170 million years ago; for the third time we parted company with kangaroos 80-130 million years ago; for the fourth and the last time X and Y differentiated and parted company with lemurs 30-50 million years ago.
Once it incorporated the SRY gene, it started losing genes. It is said that the Y is losing 5 genes every million years. The SRY gene is the switch that is turned on in male fetus bearing Y chromosome. To begin with the X and the Y had approximately 1000 (1098) genes and now the Y has only 80 (78) genes. They exist as palindromes. The scientists say when the Y chromosome undergoes mutation, damage, slippage and loss, it makes up and recoups the loss by copying from its palindromes. In females there are two X (XX) chromosomes; if one X chromosome gene is diseased the other X chromosome makes up, and the disease is not manifest. In case of males, a similar situation is catastrophic because there is no balancing counterpart for the male and so Y suffers from X-linked diseases like hemophilia, autism, muscular dystrophy, fragile-X and so on. Now you know why the males are unbalanced.
Since 95% of Y (NRY= Non-recombining Region of Y) does not recombine with the X (the genes are all turned upside down in Y), it is isolated from X and starts accumulating mutations. 98% of Y chromosome is junk and the male passes on the accumulated junk to his sons and along the male line. (Genes undergoing mutation need recombination to repair the damage; if not they accumulate as junk. Kangaroo has the most junk in its Y chromosome. (That is why it jumps on its springy hind legs carrying all that junk instead of walking!; the weighty junk needs a spring to get it off the ground; O yes, I am stretching the truth! ) Scientists scavenge the garbage dump (study the junk) and identify paternity; junk has value; Y junkyard is research and commercial paradise: Y carries $ signs. David Page says Y is not really a landfill but a National Park, much like Yosemite or Yellowstone, (O Yea, tell me about it) though he admits that hairy earlobes (I keep trimming it; I still don't know why I need hair on my earlobes.) and porcupine skin are its(Y's) manifestations.
Y Chromosome is known to invite and harbor immigrant genes from other chromosomes that favor maleness like fertility genes.
When Kali says that
she is the origin of gods, men, women and matter, who is going to refute that
claim? Remember that the original Y is a copy of X. The male genes hijacked
(took residence in) the autosome which would become Y. That is why most of
the hijackers are male. If you (squatter) stay long enough in a place, you
eventually own it. That is how the newly discovered India of Columbus became
America! That is how the autosome became the Y chromosome, when the sex genes
claimed ownership; there was a transfer of deed of ownership of the house to Y
chromosome. The colonizer becomes the owner. To begin with the new X and Y
looked alike; they did their dance like all other autosomes and exchanged genes
from each other. Then the Y became a loner and a lone ranger and stopped nuclear
exchange with X except at the ends; simply put, Y was not talking much with X;
there was no exchange of ideas (genes); this may be the primordial beginning of
marital discord between X and Y. Y also has a lot of palindromes of
enormous lengths which forwards and backwards read the same like
MADAM
(Madam, I'm Adam). There are palindromes within palindromes which are compared
to hall of mirrors.
The copying of a single man's Y and fathering many children are called Male Intrasexual Selection. Genghis Khan's and his male relatives' Y spread widely and wildly because of conscripting large number of concubines on their victory march over a swath of land. Manchu and Mongol chromosomes left genetic imprints of large size in the populations of East Asia. This Male Intrasexual Selection is not uncommon in the Middle East noted for harems in the past.
Y says to X, "I am not going to take this nonsense coming from you anymore. Your womb, your womb is the cause of your hysteria (hyster = uterus, womb), raving and ranting." X without missing a beat says, "Aren't we testy today like everyday. Listen, you goofball; I had enough with you; put up or shut up. Be a YY and never see the light of day."
Females are diploid (XX), put together in a balanced way, while males are haploid (XY) and unbalanced.
The hubris of Y took new dimensions. Only Y (males) could testify in the court in olden days because Y has the testis. The X for lack of testis, though a reliable map reader, observer, and witness could not testify. Thanks, things have changed.
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Medical
information: Normal genotype for male is XY
and for female XX.
One
has to understand two terms: Genotype
and Phenotype.
Genotype is the genetic makeup of an organism, while phenotype is observable
constitution of an organism (WYSIWYG = what you see is what you get). No one can
change the Genotype but Phenotype can be changed. In modern times when a male
undergoes sex-change operation, the person's genotype is still XY but the
Karyotype: the chromosomes of a cell, usually displayed as a systematized arrangement of chromosome pairs in descending order of size.
When there is no Male-Determining Gene (Normal Y), the fetus takes the default route and develops along the female line.
Here you can read about sex chromosomal mishaps or accidents during fertilization and embryo formation.
Metafemales or triple-X females, inherit three X chromosomes--their genotype is XXX or more rarely XXXX or XXXXX. As adults, these "super-females" are usually an inch or so taller than average with unusually long legs and slender torsos, but otherwise appear normal. They have normal development of sexual characteristics and are fertile. They may have slight learning difficulties and are usually in the low range of normal intelligence (especially the XXXX and XXXXX individuals). They tend to be emotionally immature for their size during childhood. This sometimes results in teachers and other adults labeling them as troublemakers. None of these traits prevent them from being socially accepted as ordinary adult women. This type of chromosomal abnormality is less rare than Turner syndrome, but little is known about it. The frequency is approximately 1 in 1,000 female infants and it occurs more commonly when the mother is older.
Klinefelter syndrome
males inherit one or more extra X
chromosomes--their genotype is XXY
or more rarely
XX male syndrome (also called de la Chapelle syndrome) is a rare sex chromosomal disorder in men. Usually it is caused by unequal crossing over between X and Y chromosomes during meiosis. Symptoms include small testes, gynecomastia (breast development) and sterility. Many males with this condition also have effeminate characteristics.
Men typically have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome in each diploid cell of their bodies. Women typically have two X chromosomes. XX males have two X chromosomes, but otherwise appear to be male. Diploid = two chromosomal pair in the cell)
Swyer syndrome, or XY gonadal dysgenesis, is a type of female
hypogonadism in which no functional gonads are present to induce puberty in an
otherwise normal
girl whose karyotype is then found to be
There are androgynous babies and grown-up adults with XX/XY genotype (Chimera).
Turner Syndrome with genotype 45,X. or XO. There is only one X in the female phenotype. There are other variations in the sex chromosome analysis.
Testicular Feminization.
Phenotype: Appearance, girl or Adult female. Genotype and Karyotype: Male,
Androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) is when a person who is genetically male (has one X and one Y chromosome) is resistant to male hormones called androgens. As a result, the person has some or all of the physical characteristics of a woman, despite having the genetic makeup of a man.
The syndrome is divided into two main categories: complete and incomplete. Complete AIS results in someone who looks female. In the incomplete AIS syndrome, the degree of sexual ambiguity varies widely from individual to individual.
Causes
The syndrome is caused by various genetic mutations on the X chromosome. The mutations make a developing male baby unable to respond to androgens. (Androgens are responsible for male physical characteristics.)
Androgen = any substance, as testosterone or androsterone, that promotes male characteristics.
If the androgen insensitivity is complete, this prevents the development of the penis and other male body parts. The child is born appearing to be a girl. The complete form of the syndrome occurs in as many as 1 in 20,000 live births.
Different degrees of androgen resistance can result in a wide variety of outward symptoms. Incomplete AIS can include other disorders, such as Reifenstein's syndrome (also known as Gilbert-Dreyfus syndrome or Lubs syndrome), which is associated with hypospadias (where the opening of the urethra is on the underside, rather than at the tip, of the penis), gynecomastia (breast development in men), and cryptorchidism (when one or both testes fail to descend into the scrotum after birth).
Also included in the broad category of incomplete AIS is infertile male syndrome, which is sometimes due to an androgen receptor disorder.
In its classic form (complete androgen resistance), the person appears to be female but has no uterus, and has sparse armpit and pubic hair. At puberty, female secondary sex characteristics (e.g., breasts) develop, but menstruation and fertility do not.
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Kali's divine aliases: Bhowani Devi, Sati, Rudrani, Parvati, Chinnamastika, Kamakshi, Uma, Menakshi, Himavati, Kumari. She has names that start with the letter K: KAli, KarAli, Kalyani, KalAvati, KamalA, Kalidarpaghni, KaparddIsakripanvitA...
100 names of Kali starting with K (modified from Woodroffe--Hymns to Kali and Mahanirvana Tantra):
Notes: 28. Kumari-pUjanapritA Pleased by the Worship of Virgins. Worship of KumAri by men and of married woman by other women is common in Bengal. Here Kumari is Devi --Woodroffe, page 46 Hymns to the Goddess.
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The other names are:
A Guru who knows his origin.
With the advent
of Puranic times, goddess worship underwent revival and reformation.
Anti-Buddhist movement was strengthened by Mother worshippers. Vedic age
kept the goddesses within the confines of divine household of gods; they
were mere shadows; the divine wives reflected the subordinate, dependent status
of women in the Indo-Aryan's social customs. The goddesses of Dawn (Usha) and
Night (Ratri) were sisters, more as a concept in the recess of the mind of
poetic Indo-Aryans. Vedic age regarded Mother Earth Prithvi as a cow; Water
goddess (VAruni) had more prominence. Could it be because VAruni was also a
goddess of wine and intoxication?
Vedic belief was that man was the original and the woman was a later discovery.
Take Adam for example; he was purportedly the origin of Eve. The gods
appeared first; their mothers came later. Adityas came first and Aditi, their
mother was a later introduction. Indra came first and his mother came later.
This male dominance was prevalent in other cultures too. There were many water
goddesses and spirits like Sarasvati (
Saktas (Mother-Goddess worshippers) do not believe in the idea of First Male. They are of the belief that the first Being was Mother goddess and the gods and goddesses were Her sons and daughters. They believe that Kali is the Mother of Vishnu, Siva and Brahma. This idea coincides with the scientific fact that woman came first and man came later. XX first and XY later. Srimad Devi Bhagavatam (Chapter 11) blames Kali Yuga, the attenuation of Sattva Guna and the clever pundits for the worship of Hari and Hara and other Devatas instead of Mother Goddess. It further states that 100% Sattvic Pundits of Kaliyuga worship only Mother Goddess and not anybody else and therefore "do not have to suffer any pains in their mother's womb." No male power worth its name can work, enjoy and move in this world without the help of Mother Goddess. This universe and twenty-four Tattvas are Her creation. She is the ONLY repository of Cit Sakti without which no creation is possible.
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Matriarchs with little formal business experience sit on the boards of industrial giants. Recently, the country’s highest court even told two tycoon siblings to go to their mother to settle a corporate dispute. There is a “huge, continuing umbilical cord between mothers and sons,” said Tarun Das, a commerce specialist who sits on several corporate boards and is the chief mentor for the Confederation of Indian Industry, a trade group. The veneration of the mother in India has a long history, rooted in part in Hinduism’s powerful female gods. The country is often referred to as Mother India. Nearly every Bollywood movie features a strong mother character in a leading role. And one of India’s largest suppliers of milk and cheese is Mother Dairy. “Mother gets the pride of place whatever we do, whatever we say,” said K. Raghavendra, head of human resources at Infosys BPO, the outsourcing unit of Infosys Technologies. He said the opinions of mothers even influenced hiring in the information technology industry, because young people going to their first job interview often take their parents. Mr. Rahman, the composer of the score and award-winning theme song of “Slumdog Millionaire,” refers to his mother as his “business partner.” She pushed him to pursue music although he was interested in science and electronics. Mukesh and Anil Ambani, long-feuding brothers and two of the world’s richest men, control vast industrial, telecom and retail empires worth tens of billions of dollars. When they took a squabble over natural gas rights to the Bombay High Court, Justice J. N. Patel suggested the middle-aged billionaires take it up with an even higher power. “Why don’t you go back to your mother?” he said, apparently in earnest. “It’s a matter of national importance, and a resolution will be in the public interest since natural gas is a national asset,” the justice added. Like many of India’s tycoons, the Ambani brothers inherited a family business after their father died, and their mother, Kokilaben, is one of a handful of corporate matriarchs who wield power beyond their education or professional experience. Arun Kashyap, a policy adviser for the United Nations Development Program, based in the United States, said his 83-year-old mother had a “distinct role in the career path I chose,” teaching him that “both wealth and wisdom are goddesses,” and that he could not have both. NYTimes 04/04/2009 |
Mahakali is the one who swallows Time, and the Mother of all beings and gods. Daksina means "south, gift, right." Yama is the Lord of death and lives in the south. He is afraid of taking Kali's devotees to Yama Loka, the abode of death, so she is called by the name Daksina Kali. The other explanation says that she offers the gift that guarantees liberation. The third explanation says that she is Daksina Kali because she plants her benign right foot on Siva over his chest where the heart is. She places her dangerous left foot on the demons and the wicked who succumb to her wrath. Kali in the cremation grounds (Smasana Kali) has her left foot forward in the company of ghosts, ghouls, jackals, and fearsome companion Mothers. (Mothers: Think of Charlie's Angels.) Another plausible explanation suggests that south-facing Daksina-Siva or -Bhairava adulates and worships Kali. The town where there is a Kali temple is called Daksinesvar. When you ask devotees which Kali they prefer, the informed ones prefer Kali with left foot forward (Vama Kali), because a devotee rises above the good and the bad, renounces the world and achieves liberation quickly. Her third eye strikes terror to the demons and the wicked. The three eyes represent triads: the sun, moon and fire; the past, present, and future. Third eye stands also for eternal wisdom.
Siva, Vishnu and Brahma come up like bubbles from ocean and disappear, while she lives for ever. It appears that ancient seers of India saw the escape of gases from the undersea volcanoes at bottom of the ocean. She is the ocean, while Brahma, Vishnu and Siva amount to quantity of water contained in the hoof-print of a cow. She is formless but takes many forms by her Maya. She is the real creator, preserver and destroyer, while Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva are her children, and perform those functions at her behest. (She is Tryambaki meaning she is the Mother of the three.) She ebbs and flows with the phase of moon. She is bright during the waxing bright fortnight of the moon and dark in the waning dark fortnight, becoming dark and fierce at moonless night. (In the west, crescent moon was an icon of fertility.) In the dark of moonless night (Pralaya / dissolution) she is hideous and emaciated, flails her four arms, bares her fangs and devours all beings. What she gives in life, she takes back in death; she spins the wheel of death and renewal in an endless fashion. There is no birth or life without her; there is no death without her. She is Sakti (Power) of Siva; Siva is Sava (dead) without Sakti. She roams under polyonymous names: Sati, Parvati, Durga, Uma, Bhairavi, Bhavani, Tripura-Sunadari. She is Time: life and death, which are part of Time, are resident in her; she wields her Sakti on life and death. She has the noose, the staff and the sword and to prove that no one can escape the tyranny of Time, she carries a severed head. The blood-dripping sword (of knowledge) and the severed head represent fall of Avidya (ignorance) and rise of Vidya (knowledge). Head is the seat of human consciousness, which is not transcendent or superconscious, and always mired in mundane affairs and in apara vidya (not supreme knowledge). Severing of the head is also symbolic of severing of false human consciousness and opening of superconsciousness necessary for Para Vidya (Supreme knowledge). The sword symbolizes the cutting the knots of Pasa (impurities, bonds) of the soul, which prevent the soul from attaining moksa. Blood dripping from the head is removal of Raja Guna (motion and passion) and ascent of Sattva (virtue and goodness). Death and darkness are preludes to life and light: That is Kali in those aspects. There is no way one can explain all these qualities of Kali without painting a picture as seen elsewhere.
She wears or sports a kilt of severed arms dangling from her waist as a skirt, a necklace of 51 severed heads representing 51 letters of Sanskrit alphabet, earrings dangling in the form dead children, serpents as bracelets, spear, club, discus, conch, bow and arrows, sling and mace, a sword dripping blood, a lolling tongue, a pair of scissors, fierce fangs with blood-dripping lips, a flower on one hand, and a cascade of flowing hair streaming from her head. Is there a sight with more gore than blood? Are there pain and anguish more than a child's death? Death is a predictable reality which no one can escape. All these realities of life one has to face before one takes leave of life. That is the role Kali plays by bringing reality to one's life. Her lolling tongue, the insatiable thirst for blood, a skirt made of amputated hands, dangling dead children, wriggling snakes and bodiless head dripping blood depict the ever-present violence and terror in the world in many of its forms. Aren't you reminded of the war? She wears the devastation of war on her body. If you see her you see the nakedness of war in its full spectrum. That is Reality. Since she is the Supreme Goddess and has the power of all gods concentrated in her, she on her body, wears, as it were, creation, maintenance, destruction, veiling and grace. Some sources say that she was embarrassed by stepping on Siva in the battleground and as a sign of shame and modesty, she lolled her tongue out. Others say that red tongue is Raja Guna overcome by white teeth, Sattva Guna.
Another explanation: The heads Kali wears as a garland of heads are those of Demons, whom Kali has vanquished, and she established righteousness. The Demons are Kama, Krodha, Lobha, Moha, Mada, Matsarya (desire, anger, greed, delusion, pride, and envy. This is the Garland of Letters (VarnaMAlA = letter + garland). In Hinduism and Christianity, the word is the origin of the universe.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." John 1:1-5 Think of Logos, the Divine Word.
The letters represent the universe of names and forms; without letters there is no name or no form. At pralaya or cosmic dissolution, she withdraws all letters, meaning the universe. With reference to Kundalini Yoga, the Body Centers contain all letters of the Sanskrit alphabet on the petals of the Lotuses. We (our body, mind, soul) are the Universe, the microcosm of the macrocosm that is the larger Universe.
Letters of alphabet: Revelation 1.8: "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.
Her lolling red tongue is also symptomatic of Raja Guna, which indicates the creative power in her; her Raja guna (motion, passion, creation) is constructive in Kali, while it is destructive in humans; it is a reminder that men should control their Raja Guna (motion, passion and destruction).
Karma is thought, word and deed; hand is the end organ for the performance of a deed or action. A skirt of severed arms is symbolic of expunction of Karma; thus, Kali cuts the devotees free from the hand of karma.
Kali's votaries unload all their Karma by their devotion.
She appears in front of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (RKPH) as a real-life gracious goddess accepting food and submitting herself to his test to see whether she is really a breathing and living goddess, RKPH feeling of her breath under her nose; she also appears as Ramani a known seductress and prostitute in front of RKPH within the sanctum in an act of play with her disciple. RKPH addressed the Mother Kali, saying She chose to appear as Ramani for his worship of Her in that form. Kali is divine, though she represents (but transcends) goodness, virtue, vile, wickedness, and all human weaknesses. We are of course reminded of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene.
She sits on supine Siva in Viparita Maithuna (reverse coition) stance in the cremation ground. In the Dakshinesvar temple, black Kali stands on supine white Siva with wide-open eyes with her right foot planted over his chest, where the heart is and the left foot on his right thigh. Siva's eyes are transfixed on his consort; that is living Siva looking at her, while Sava Siva looks away from her purporting that He has absorbed both Siva and Sakti into Him. Her right side is all goodness and motherly love and Her left side is all destruction. What right hand gives, left hand takes away; here the meaning is that She gives Dharma (righteousness), Artha (wealth), and Kama (love) during life and moksa (liberation) at death. That is a fact of life, good and bad, birth and death, benign and malignant. Joseph Campbell says, "In the West, we tend to make our beneficent divinities beneficent, and our malignant ones malignant. The main point in these Eastern images is that both terms are present in the same image, as they are in life. In his wonderful Tristan, Gottfried von Strassburg says, 'They tell me there are those who seek only happiness and peace. Let God give them peace. I seek the life that has both bitterness and sweetness simultaneously'."
Kali comes in many forms of which two are mentioned here. One is the benign kind and the other is fierce kind. Benign Kali (Dakshina) keeps the right foot forward planted on the chest of Siva with her left hand holding the sword; fierce Smasāna (cremation ground) Kali holds the left foot forward with the sword on the right hand. Mahakali is the one who swallows Time, and the Mother of all beings and gods. Kali says to every one in and out of sight that She is life and death, the dance of life and death, the broad-step Dancer of the wide universe and a nimble Dancer on the point of a diamond. Shyama Kali is black Kali who as Sati was dancing in a frenzy and the world was terrified. Siva, her dear consort, laid himself flat on the ground, hoping that she would step on him, take pity and remorse and stop the wild dance. She stepped on her husband by mistake, realized her mistake, lolled her tongue out in remorse, and stopped the wild dance. Gunas (modes) carry color codes; Sattva, virtue, is white; Rajas, motion and passion, is red; Tamas, lethargy and indolence, is black. Black is the all-consuming color where all colors drown and disappear. Black color like the black hole draws everything in its consuming spiral and all substances and qualities disappear. That is Nirguna Brahman (Kali) without qualities. Lolling tongue is passion and activity, while the white teeth holding the tongue in check is virtue. Lolling red tongue is a reminder to the devotee that one should control his Rajas guna with his Sattva guna. What the right hands confer in the form of protection from fear and boons are countered by the left hand holding the severed head and the blood-stained sword; she is a protector of the devotee on one hand and a destroyer of the enemy and evil on the other hand. The destruction may sometimes be unmitigative, superabundant, unchecked and indiscriminate. Tejas of gods coalesced to form goddess Kali, who received all their collective strength and weapons; the gods did not impose any restriction on donated strength and weapons. When the gods realized their mistake, they sent Siva to lie down in a supplicant fashion on the battlefield and her many paths, so that she feels embarrassed (Faux Pas) upon stepping on him, and thereby mitigate her inordinate power. She creates Maya but is free of its effects. Maya is the progenitor of the universe and beings. Clothing is covering the body; likewise covering is hiding the Truth; nudity is uncovering the Truth. Smasana Kali loves to stay in cremation grounds, where the Kosas (sheaths) of the body dissolve and return to their respective sources, earth, water, air, fire, and ether. Likewise, the Tattvas involute starting from earth backwards and upwards to Superconsciousness of Devi. Once the Mahabhutas and impurities disappear for ever by the fire of knowledge, what is left is pure soul with knowledge, (saktinipatam). Saktinipatam is descent of Supreme Spiritual knowledge into the soul, when all the impurities are burnt off.
Sakti (wife) always stood by Siva on his left side in this process of Pravrtti (evolution, creation and multiplication). Evolution (Pravrtti) is a centrifugal movement of the soul away from Goddess. She chooses to bump (demote) the fecund father, rejects amorous advances from Divine Father, takes his place and stands him on her left side (role reversal); this process is the beginning of Nivrtti (cessation, retrograde involution). Nivrtti is centripetal movement of the soul towards Goddess. She is in possession of three qualities: Iccha, Jnana and Kriya (Will, Knowledge, and Action). She exercises her Will because she has the necessary Knowledge, which gave her the name Mahavidya (Great Knower). She destroys all the devilish qualities of her sons, holds them by her right hand, and takes them back on Nivrtti Marga (path). The fecundating Father who feels responsible for Pravrtti falls prostrate at her feet to save the world, which Sakti produced with marginal and meager help from fecundating Father; the Goddess tramples him under her feet and takes her sons back on the journey of Nivrtti. Nivrtti is taking the soul back to its fountainhead. We are fallen beings. When we resolve and erase all impurities, Maya, Kanma, and Anava Malas, we go back to Godhead.
In Dakshinesvar temple, Kali does not wear a skirt of severed demons' hands; instead, golden chains grace her waist. The founding patroness of the temple, did not like demons' hands touching Kali who was regarded as Kumari (virgin) by the founder. The hands represent action; action along with thought and word result in Karma; severing the hands and using them as a girdle are symbolic of absorbing the karma of her devotees and demons at the end of cosmic cycle. The fetuses that adorn the ears are symbolic of renewed life. She is life and death at the same time; she is maintenance too. She has the third eye of wisdom and omniscience. She wears a Varnamala of 50 skulls around her neck, representing letters of Sanskrit alphabet. Varna = letter; Māla = garland. Sabda or Sound is the origin of the universe. Utterable, audible and intelligent Sanskrit sound and its visual symbol, the letter, are Akshara or imperishable and distinguish man from animals; Sabda and Varna proceed from Kali, the Mother goddess, and blossom into Pada (syllables), Vak (words), and Vakya (sentences). Sound is supreme, imperishable, and immutable, while its derivatives, names and forms, morph and mutate. Let me give a modern-day example. We have the letters of the DNA code: A,C,G,T --Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine and Thymine. Adenine and Thymine, Guanine and Cytosine pair off. These fixed pairs as rungs of ladder in a helical shape and form make tens of thousands of genes, which morph and mutate to make many life forms.
Sabda is the progenitor of names and forms. Go to >>>>>Sabda or Sound<<<<<<. Each letter has a complement of male and female deities, conjugation of which assures creation and produces a wide world of language and speech. This is the concept of Logos common to all cultures and borrowed from Tantrics.
Kali's Bija Mantra is KREEM, which is the sound body of the Mother. Your name in sound is your sound body. Ka is Kali, Ra is Brahman, EE is Mahamaya, M is the terminator (M = Chandra Bindu = Nada and Bindu) Nada is the Mother, and the Bindu is the vanquisher of sorrow. Om Kreem Kali is her Mantra, chanting of which confers wisdom, auspiciousness, bliss, liberation and pure Consciousness, the last of which is closer to Siva-Sakti's Pure Consciousness than to human consciousness; the difference is like that between diamond and pebble. See below, Kali Yantra.
Maha Kali is the most commonly seen Great Goddess of dark complexion with ten faces, three eyes on each face, and ten hands. She is an emanation from Durga with the express purpose of killing Demons, Madhu and Kaitabha. Shyama (black) Kali, and Raksha (protection) Kali are among the other Kali forms. Raksha is considered as Maha Kali. Votaries worship Shyama Kali at home for boons. Raksha Kali offers protection against disease, death from epidemics, famine, and natural disasters (flood, drought and earthquake). She is Smasana Kali (Masānam = burial ground, cremation ground--Tamil), when she dribbles blood from her lolling tongue and mouth, wears a skirt made of severed hands and a garland of freshly cut heads, and moves in the midst of corpses and howling jackals in the burial or cremation ground. Smasana Kali carries Kapala with wine, appears and behaves intoxicated. It is conjectured that the altered consciousness from wine is portrayal of Superconsciousness of the Goddess (and Yogis and Sadhakas). KapAla = skull as a eating or drinking bowl.
Bhadra Kali (Auspicious Kali) killed Demon Mahisa and yet before his death, gave him a boon that he would not leave, but serve at her feet wherever there is a worship of her. She has three eyes and four hands bearing a trident, and an axe, a drum and a skull. She is also depicted to have sixteen, eighteen or one hundred arms; she wears a crown with the crescent moon, a snake around her neck, and a red drape, and gores a buffalo with her lance. In a hill temple around Warangal and Hanamkonda, Bhadra Kali in stone is in a sitting stance with eight arms, each with a weapon. She is Phalaharini Kali, destroying the fruits of karma. Phalaharini = phala + hārini = (evil) fruit destroyer or remover = destroyer of fruits of Karma. She brings Karma to a zero sum, so the devotee can attain salvation. Nitya Kali is eternal beyond Time and gives her devotees relief from disease and deprivation and takes them into her bosom of wisdom and liberation. Thugs invoke Dakait Kali to protect and serve them. Dākā = robbery. Guhya Kali, Secret, mysterious Kali, is a form of Durga with deep sunken eyes, terrible teeth, lashing tongue, tangled matted hair, and a huge abdomen with wriggling snakes galore under her, around her and everywhere. She imbibes wine. Ananta, a thousand-headed cosmic serpent, forms a hooded canopy over her head. It is symbolic of wealth, wisdom, and fertility. Serpent Kundali pierces through six Chakras to reach Sakti and Siva in the higher plane; likewise, Ananta is capable of going to Nether world, earth and higher worlds. Siddha Kali awards perfection to Tantric worshippers. Her favorite drink is blood in Kapala (skull bone). (If this is abhorrent, consider blood sausages of the modern day.) Elsewhere in this article, there is a description of Daksina Kali.
All the violence and terror of the world have come together in its stark nakedness on the body of Kali. That is reality. Other goddesses bring auspicious aspect of life into focus; Kali alone by herself brings an opposing view of life. Birth, life, death and many other kaleidoscopic events in one's lifetime ranging from the pleasant to the most gruesome are morphing episodes and all of them find expression in Kali. She is the Mother Goddess of men, gods, and goddesses and other living beings. Even those benign and evil goddesses are her children. Kali presents herself to her devotees as young girl, grown woman, queen, virgin, whore and goddess. She is the living goddess in each one of them; she transcends the gunas of all her human presentment. Is Kali frightening her children who are men, women, gods, goddesses, and other beings? No, she injects a sense of reality in the life of each individual. She stands on Sava Siva (dead Siva, her husband) in the battlefield and on the crematorium and burial ground with female jackals as company. Is that a sign of bliss in widowhood? Is that something else? Siva presents himself as a baby, whom she picks up and nurses on her breast. It is a statement that Siva without Sakti is dead. She is defiant, independent and dominating and yet very susceptible to Siva's servile persuasion. Siva many times acts as doormat in relation to Kali who unknowingly steps on her husband only to suffer remorse and shyness, and abandon her fierce nature.
Beings bound by Time come like blips of light and disappear in the dark night of Nitya (perpetual) dissolution of daily occurrence. Her weapons stand for the power of Time over the individual's life: death. Death is tellingly stark naked at the crematoria and burial grounds which are the common venue of Kali and where she keeps company with goblins and jackals. She is clad in space, luminous in appearance; she is also clad in pitch darkness, when she is Death; all differences submerge in consuming darkness. She is the Naked Truth and Absolute Power. She strips away all illusions of human existence. She is a one-woman show; the whole universe is Her show and Dance Hall. When her Power is unmanifest and latent, she is sava Siva; she stands on (the corpse of) Siva to prove it. Remember that corpse is euphemism for lack of Sakti or power in Siva without Her. When she is bright as the full Moon, she holds her hand in high-five stance, guaranteeing Fear-Not reassurance and confers boons of moksa (liberation) to her devotees. Association of cremation ground and Kali brings home the reality of death to a person and the futility of love and hate, and other opposing qualities. In life, opposite emotions assault the person; at death, all opposites come to an end; in the cremation ground, sitting with the dead and the living help the Tantric Sadaka to see beyond life and death and warring opposite emotions and develop Vairagya (detachment, desirelessness). In the cremation ground, the Tantric hopes to lose body awareness and identifies himself with the Soul. It is celebration of the spirit over the ephemeral body.
The holiest of holy temple of Kali is Kalighat in Calcutta. When Sati (her other name) died by her own fiery internal heat, Siva carried her body on his shoulders all over the world, vouching to destroy it. Sati could not bear the insult of her father Daksa, who going against convention, did not offer Siva's portion of sacrifice. No sacrifice is complete without Siva partaking the offerings at sacrifice. Daksa's arrogance was later suitably rewarded with removal of his head and transplanting of a goat's head in its place. Vishnu, the preserver, worrying about the welfare of the world, intervened, cut the corpse into fifty-one pieces which fell at various parts of the earth. Fifty-one parts stand for the fifty-one letters of the Sanskrit alphabet. Kali is Sabda Brahman (Sound Brahman or Sound Goddess), the origin of letters, which she wears as skulls around her neck. Each place where the body part fell is sacred. Sabda or sound is the origin of the universe of beings and matter.
Kali wears one hundred and eight skulls around her neck in some representations, which means that we carry the memories of our previous births.
The West regards Durga as the high-caste version of non-Brahmanical Prevedic Kali.
Students of
Black Kali and White Durga are of the opinion that Kali is a non-Brahmanical
deity, while Durga (her other name) is the high-caste version (incarnation) and
counterpart. Durga is regarded by the western students as belonging to
Post-Vedic period. Her warrior status is assumed to represent the wars between
the indigenous population of India and the Indo-Aryans (This is disputed).
Durga is portrayed as white seated on a tiger. Her eight hands stand for eight
elements. A garland of 52 human heads represents the letters of the Sanskrit
alphabet. She is the Sabdabrahman or Brahman of sounds and the origin of
letters, words, phrases, prose and poetry in all languages. The very first
written text in the world was Rg Veda in Sanskrit. Mark Twain says:
One of the episodes illustrates the blood thirstiness of Kali and that is for a good reason. Kali faced Titan Raktavija on the battleground and fierce battle took place between the Titan and Kali. (It is symbolism of the good fighting the evil and the victory of good over evil.) A thousand fighting clones of Titan appeared from each drop of blood every time she wounded him and spilt his blood on the battleground. The battlefield was chock full of these fighting clones. Kali brought in Matrakas to fight her battle with the clones. Things got worse; more clones appeared as more blood was shed. Kali created Chandi, who started killing the clones. Kali had a brilliant idea: she sucked up all the blood from his body and bones as the Matrakas and Chandi were killing the clones; she herself was stuffing the clones into her mouth. She grew to an enormous size and filled the sky and heaven. As Kali sucked the Titan bone-dry, there was no more blood falling on the battlefield. That was the end of Titan Raktavija. Compare Kali's problem with that of Hercules. Hercules had a problem with the Hydra (water serpent) with nine heads; every time he cut one head of Hydra, two heads grew in its place. Hercules hit upon the idea of cauterizing the neck to destroy the germinating heads as he cut the heads off one by one. This idea of clones germinating from drops of blood in ancient Hindu religious thinking is fascinating. IT neatly fits in with the modern idea of cloning.
Kali orDurga is a demon killer (Kriya Sakti). Demons are the Tamasic (Dark) demons in our mind: Kama, Krodha, Lobha, Moha, Mada, Matsarya (desire, anger, greed, delusion, pride, and envy). Once Kali or Durga kills these demons, Lakshmi (Ichcha Sakti) takes over the mind and helps us get rid of Rajasic Vikshepa (False perception; distraction; to and fro oscillations of the mind; gales of desire blowing in the mind) which are hard to remove from the mind. Lakshmi helps man acquire the Will Power (Ichcha Sakti) and get rid of remnants of desire and false perception by Upasana (worship). What is left is ignorance meaning spiritual ignorance. Spiritual enlightenment is infused by Sarasvati (Jnana Sakti). The eradication of impurities, desires and ignorance with the help of these three deities is celebrated for nine days and nine nights, 3 days and 3 nights for each deity (Navaratri = nine nights). It takes nine days and nine nights to defeat these demons. Nine manifestation of Mother Goddess (Durga, Bhadrakali, Amba, Annapurna, Sarvamangala, Bhairavi, Chandika, Lalita, and Bhavani) are celebrated over nine nights. The tenth day is Vijayadasami, meaning victory (over the demons of the mind; realization and emancipation) on the 10th day. It is celebrated in the beginning of summer and winter. In Puranas, the demons are described as living beings. Mantras: Om Sri MahaLakshmyai Namah. Om Sri Durgayai Namah. Om Aim Sarasvatyai Namah.
Matrakas
Kali Yantra: The 360° circle is enveloping Avidya (Ignorance); the eight-petalled lotus represent the derivatives of Prakriti: Mahaabhutas plus (Earth1, Water2, Fire3, Air4, and Ether5), Manas6 (mind), Buddhi7 (intellect), and Ahamkara8 (ego). They also represent eight Bhairavas and eight Bhairavis. The center is occupied by Bindu. The triangle is turned down in female deities and up in male ones. (The genital area is escutcheon in the form of a triangle.) The circle of Avidya (spiritual ignorance) is life and death cycle, which one has to transcend or cross to attain Absolute Reality. The fifteen corners of the five triangles represent three groups of fives: five sensory organs, vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch; five motor organs, hands for grasp, feet for ambulation, larynx for speech, evacuative organ, and reproductive organ; five vital airs (pranas), Prana for intake and utilization, Apana for expulsion, Samana for assimilation, Vyana for digestion, distribution and sustenance, Udana for utterance and death. Prana is inhaled air; Apana is downward air exiting the anus; Samana is neither up nor down, but equal; Vyana is the air or oxygen that carried in the blood to various organs for their vital function; Udana is upward-moving expelled air in the throat; it is useful for speech; when it goes upwards for good, it means death. Remember that in Hinduism, all biological functions are called Prana (breath, air).
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triangle = es-cutch-eon = a decorative or protective plate around a door handle, keyhole, light switch, or the like = in this instance, female or male pudendum = the external genital organs of a man or woman. Upright triangle is a sign of the male; down triangle, the sign of the female.
The points on the five triangles amounting to fifteen stand for the fifteen days of waning moon.
| Five Triangles | 5 Sensory organs | 5 Motor organs | 5 Vital airs | Tribindu-progenitors |
| Fifteen days of waning moon. | Jnanendriyas are the five senses: eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin for vision, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching. | Karmendriyas are motor organs: voice box, hands, feet, rectum and genitals for speech, grasp, locomotion, evacuation, and generation. | Prana,
Samana, Apana, Udana, Vyana. |
Tribindu Maya Bija Mantras |
The Mother Goddess
Mahisasura defeated the Suras (gods) and made himself the Lord of the Heavens. Siva and Vishnu by their yogic vision and word of mouth came to know of the triumphant return of the Titans (Asuras, demons). Heaven had been the usual habitat of the gods, but now and then the Demons vanquished the gods and took possession of the universe until Siva and Vishnu came to their rescue. It is again the good versus evil.
The Demon King Mahisa had the protection of a boon that guaranteed no death at the hands of man or god. Vishnu, Siva, and other gods, upon supplication from lesser gods, diffused their Tejas (splendor, male energy) from their bodies, which eventually coalesced and congealed into a warrior goddess, Kali, who was one mass of splendor, a powerhouse of a million suns. Having become the repository of Tejas from gods, she was ready to face any adversary on the battlefield. She had help from seven Maatrakaas (Mothers) to fight the army of Mahisa. The real battle is between overwhelming Virtue on one side and degraded evil forces on the other side representing usurpation, selfishness, jealousy, anger, hatred, and ego. Who else other than a Mother could restrain, admonish, and punish her errant children? Adam gave his Tejas (rib in this case) to create Eve (the rib was taken while he was obtund); the Hindu gods gave Tejas to create a warrior goddess; Koran says that God created one soul, a mate from the latter and countless men and women thereafter. That is one view. Ask the Tantrics, they have a different version. Mother Goddess is the origin of men and material. Go to "Durga kills demons" for a different version of the story of Mahisa.
The gods witnessed in the mouths of Vishnu, Siva and the bodies of other gods an unrivaled splendor (Tejas) emanating in all ten directions, coalescing and congealing into a woman Mahisasmardini (Killer of Mahisa). Her face rivaled the splendor of Siva's face; her hair shone like lightning and rivaled that of Yama; her hands were as beautiful and splendorous as those of Vishnu. In all, she had the appearance of a valiant seductress and killer (007 seductress is no match). Her beauty was a direct bequeathal from Siva, her strength from Vishnu. Siva gave her his Trident, Vishnu his discus. Indra , the Lord of the heavens, gave her thunderbolt; Surya, the Sun, gave her his rays to emanate from her pores in great effulgence. Varuna the god of ocean gave her a garland of fade-free lotus flowers, crest jewel, earrings, and bracelets. The moon's beaming rays composed her breasts; Indra's her waists; Varuna's her calves and thighs; earth's her hips; Brahma's her feet; the sun's her toes; Indra's her fingers; Kubera's her nose; Patriarch's her teeth; Fire's her three eyes; Dusk's her eyebrows; Wind's her ears; celestials' her limbs. She was sitting on Padma, the lotus seat. (She was the Light and Splendor of all gods.) Vishnu and Siva knew that Mahisâsura obtained a boon that he would not be killed by any one except a woman. Mahisa was of the opinion that woman could never overpower and kill him. That is the reason why the gods created Mahisasmardini to kill Mahisa. Recent examples: Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein (Mahisa) were the demons. The US and the Coalition forces (Mahisasmardini) took the challenge and eliminated the threat.
(Ten directions are N; NE; E; SE; S; SW; W; NW; Above and Below.)
Other celestials gave the following articles to Kali.
| Kaala | Milk ocean | Visvakarman | Ocean | Himavat | Kubera | Sesa |
| Sword and shield | Jewels and cloth | Axe | Impenetrable armor, garland,
and Lotus
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Lion and gems | vessel with inexhaustible supply of wine | Nagahara (Serpent necklace) |
Having been endowed with Light, Splendor, weapons and jewels, the goddess roared, which reverberated through heaven and earth; the oceans roiled with tsunamis; the earth shook; the gods let out a cry of victory and relief. The gods looked at Ambika, the newly created warrior goddess, and spouted words of praise. The gods raised their arms and marched their army to the battlefield. The Daityas (Demons) felt the tumult of the seas and the earth and the din of celebration. They hoisted their arms and were at the ready to march. Mahisa turned his face towards the Light and Sound and rushed headlong towards Ambika, who was radiating beauty and luster in all directions illuminating the three worlds. Million of his armed minions were not far behind Mahisa. They were battle-hardened heroes, and masters of their weapons. They fought hard, they fought long; Ambika easily parried missiles and weapons launched by them. She sent showers of arrows on her enemies, used her trident, club, axe and Sakti. As She roared like a lion and her bells jangled, the fierce sounds stupefied the Asuras who lay there on the battleground motionless for Kali to smash them with her club. Kali created out of her body many Matrakas (Maatrakaas), the fighting mothers; remember, no men were allowed to do their fighting. They are the seven mothers: Brahmani, Mahesvari, Kaumari, Vaishnavi, Varahi, Indrani, Camunda. These seven mothers are the personified energies (Tejas) of seven deities resident in Kali. Mahisasura was in the form a buffalo. Demons have the ability to morph as they please. There were piles of bodies, body parts, and weapons strewn all over the battlefield, which is the handiwork of one goddess and her Ganas (assistants) fighting millions of soldiers. Headless bodies danced in the battlefield and the heads were talking as they rolled on the ground asking the goddess and her army to stop fighting them. Rivers of blood from Asuras, elephants and horses flowed on the field. Kali killed many Daitya Generals with her sword, pike and club. Mahisasura, enraged at the carnage, killed many of the Ganas and rushed towards the lion of the goddess with the intent to kill it. As he rushed, he cleared his way by kicking debris with his hooves, sweeping some with his tail, and using his horns and snout to fling them. He was angry and rushed towards the lion who noticed the thrashing buffalo, who broke the mountain top with his horns and hurled a crag at the lion. Many mountains tops were gored by the horns and there was a rain of crags from the sky. The clouds, rent by the horns, dissipated in no time out of fear. The ocean, whipped by his tail, came in waves and ran beyond its shores. Ambika witnessed all this devastation and was ready to put an end to the Buffalo Demon. (Ambika = Mother, the other name for Kali)
She took a lasso, swirled it skillfully with ever widening circle (the cowboys are no match in this art) and swung it on the Buffalo Demon to catch him by the horns. As soon as the noose fell on the demon, he metamorphosed into a lion. He was the simon-pure "Morph." No sooner than she tried to cut his head off, he became a human being with a sword in his hand. She sent a downpour of arrows on him, which he parried with his shield. He became an elephant, swung his trunk and landed a blow on the lion. Then he became a human; the goddess cut off his hand with her sword; he took his original form of Buffalo. He sent turbulence through all three worlds and Chandica the protector of the worlds, was very angry with him. She began drinking wine and laughed out loud. The Demon also bellowed loud. He dug the mountains with his horns and flung them at the Goddess; she pulverized them all with her arrows. Now the effects of inebriation was showing on her; her eyes were red and her face became ruddy; she was excited; she spoke like the rumbling clouds. "O monumental idiot, O demon of decadence and low intellect, why are you so foolhardy? No Asura in this universe can stand before me." Thus saying, she jumped on him, kicked his neck and thrust him with her spear. He was dying and yet he continued to fight. With his strength ebbing and blood gushing from his body, he managed to be half-human and half-buffalo (Chimera). His buffalo head fell off his body with one clean sweep of the sword by Kali; he fell to the ground; he was dead. His followers ran away shouting and asking for mercy. Indra praised the goddess; the Gandharvas sang songs of glory; the Apasaras danced. Millions of Devas were hovering in the sky singing praises and came reverentially to Devi with down-cast heads and shoulders. The purport is Kali kills the demons in us (desire, anger, greed, delusion, pride, and envy, takes us to Godhead, gives us liberation) and retires to Himalayas.
This is the time of origin of Mahalakshmi from Kali, conferring wealth and fertility. Mother Goddess is the origin of all gods and goddesses; Mahalakshmi, Sarasvati, and others came from the physical sheath (Kosas) of Parvati (Kali).
Kali (Durga in this instance) fought with the demon for nine days and nine nights. That is killing of demons and eradication of Avidya (spiritual ignorance) in us. These nine days and nights and the tenth day and night (Sakti Puja) are celebrated as Navaratri (nine nights) of the bright fortnight in the month of Aswin (Sep/Oct). The demons in us have to die before we can approach Siva or Mother Goddess. The demons are the Pasas (impurities, bonds). The morphing of Kali/Durga (Transfiguration) to Mahalakshmi and Sarasvati are morphing of the soul from one of impurities to that of prosperity and that of Light, Wisdom and Knowledge. This is transmutation of Tamas (darkness, delusion and indolence), to Rajas (motion and passion) and to Sattva (virtue and goodness) in that order. It is common sight to see the constellation of Durga, Mahalakshmi and Sarasvati in one shrine under one dome in the temple as in Balaji Temple in Bridgewater, New Jersey. This descent of spiritual wisdom into the soul is Sattinipatam. When the soul is infused with this wisdom, it is pure enough to merge with Sakti and Siva. Sakti is the intermediary between Siva and man; between Siva and man there is a chasm which cannot be crossed unless Sakti helps the soul. Siva is Absolute Purity and cannot tolerate any contaminating impurity; Sakti helps the pure soul cross this perilous chasm and merge with Siva. Kali (Durga), Mahalakshmi and Sarasvati are celebrated for 3 days each and the tenth day is the day of victory when the soul merges with Siva. The tenth day of victory is Vijayadasami and the tenth night is Dasra. This is the day of celebration when men, women and children lay down their important tools (soldiers, weapons; men, their tools of trade; children, their books) at the feet of Goddess and do Seva.
As Kali continued her rampage, gods were struck with fear. What if she destroys the whole universe? Who was going to stop her? The collective Tejas of all gods and the holy triumvirate --Brahma, Vishnu and Siva-- was still active in the form of Kali in the battlefield. Who was there to diffuse this unspent energy? Kali was wandering in the battlefield in a drunken state (drunken of the blood of her enemies) and was about step on and trip over a beautiful naked white body smeared with ash. She cast her eyes on the body and her eyes met his eyes; She knew it was her Divine Consort Siva Himself laying down at her feet. Her tongue lolled out in embarrassment; her eyes bulged; her coalesced energy came to a standstill, diffused and dissipated; Kali was there no more.
Daruka slain by Kali and Siva's Cosmic Dance (Linga Purana, Chapter 106)
Once upon a time, there was an Asura (demon) by name Daruka who obtained a boon that no one in the universe could kill him except a woman. He was so confident in his mind that if men and gods could not kill him, it is unlikely a woman would kill him. He performed penance and attained immense strength. He went on a killing rampage of Devas and Brahmins like the infernal fire at the end of Yuga (eon). The surviving Devas and Brahmins sought refuge with Brahma, Vishnu, Siva and others. The chief of gods, Indra, cleverly disguised himself as a woman and confronted Daruka to no avail; he was roundly routed. Indra, Brahmins and others ran to Brahma in utter desperation and sought his help. Brahma took them all to Siva, related their woeful story and pleaded with him to have Daruka killed by a woman. Siva looked at his consort, showered praise, and requested her to kill Daruka for the welfare of the world, gods and men. Parvati, the consort of Siva, entered into the body of Siva with the power of her Maya (illusion), all the time unknowing to the assembled gods, shed her physical body, gathered the poison from the neck of Lord Siva and fashioned herself a body out of the said poison. Siva, coming to know the machination of Parvati inside his body for the public weal, created Kali with the blue neck and created her from his third eye. Kali knew her mission; Bhavani and Parmesvara (Kali and Siva) were ready to launch an attack on Daruka with intent to kill the demon. Gods and Siddhas including Indra, Brahma and Vishnu took one look at the flaming fire of a goddess Kali with black neck decorated with poison and froze with fear and fright. Suddenly an eye seemed to sprout on her forehead; she wore a crescent moon on her head, she bore a trident in her arm; she jangled her fine jewelry as she moved. Along with her were the Lords of Siddhas and Pisacas, the flesh-eating demons of yellow complexion. Kali in battle with Daruka killed him. Men and gods could not accomplish what Kali executed in a neat fashion. The roiling anger, the power and the redundant energy in Kali did not die or dissipate with the end of the mission. The universe of gods and men were in agitation, looking at the frightful Kali and her unspent Tejas (power, brilliance). Siva promised to the gods that he would make sure that her anger melted into love. By the power of Maya, Bhava (Siva) morphed into a baby boy, placed himself on the battlefield and squealed in hunger pains.
According
to Rg Veda, the newly married woman is blessed with long life with her husband
and 10 children plus the 11th child being her own husband. The reason is that a
woman loves her last offspring the most; that love she reserves for her husband,
whom she should think of as the most loved and the last child. In Hindu
thinking, a son is the facsimile of her husband. In relation to Babylonian
goddess Ishtar of the 8th century BC, Tammuz, the Babylonian shepherd god played
the mythical role of husband, son, and brother. Inanna-Ishtar always played the
dominant role.
It appears that Siva knew exactly when to express and project Kali's anger, when to extinguish it and when to execute the strategies that go with them. Kali just finished killing the demons. The demons are euphemism for bad qualities of the human race. Demons are the Tamasic (Dark) demons in our mind: Kama, Krodha, Lobha, Moha, Mada, Matsarya (desire, anger, greed, delusion, pride, and envy). Siva had to extinguish the superabundant energy of Kali. Siva's Maya overpowered and deluded Kali and instilled in her a strong nurturing instinct. As Kali was wandering among the mutilated bodies and corpses, she was about to step on a crying baby; she stopped, picked him up and tenderly nursed him at her breast, exhibiting her maternal instinct. Here is an instance of the Lord playing the role of suckling baby to extinguish the unspent and redundant Tejas of Kali; suckling not only quenched his hunger pains, but also drew out her unspent wrath and Tejas (the collective power derived from male gods), which he stomached along with her milk. Here you may notice the blur between wife and mother in one woman. By draining and drenching the fire of wrath, the Lord (Siva) became the protector of men, god and Tirthas (holy places). He took eight forms as his manifestation as the Supreme intelligent Protector of Tirthas: Sarva for earth, Bhava for water, Rudra for fire, Ugra for air, Bhima for ether, Pasupati for Ksetrajna, Isana for sun, and Mahadeva for moon (according to Swami Sivananda). These eight forms are collectively called Murtayo'stau or Ashtamurti. See insert: Nursing Mother Goddess: exoticindia.com
In order to express gratitude and propitiate Kali for her services, Siva performed Tandava Dance with goblins and ghosts. Paramesvari (Kali) seeing and enjoying the delightful cosmic dance of Siva, danced in the company of ghosts, goblins, and Yoginis. The galaxy of gods along with Indra, Brahma, and Vishnu paid their respects, praised Kali and prayed to goddess Parvati. Yoginis = female Yogis. End of Daruka.
Black Kali becomes Sodasi and Golden Gauri
Parvati (Kali) was once addressed as KALI (black) by snow-white Siva; Kali was upset, retired to Mount Sumeru, and became an ascetic vowing to change her black complexion to white. (Siva and Parvati were in a conversation. Siva lovingly addressed Parvati, "O daughter of Himavat, I am white like the moon and you are black. I am the sandalwood tree and you are the snake wrapped around it.") Narada, the tale-bearing Muni, went to Kali and told her that Siva was considering marriage to another woman and that she should immediately go back to Siva. Is this not misportrayal and a benign mischief on the part of Narada Muni to have Siva and Kali come back together? Kali by that time was losing the pigment in her skin and became light-skinned, but did not know about it. (Think of Michael Jackson, who is allegedly beached his skin white.) When she went to Siva, she saw a wheat-complexioned woman in the mirror of the heart of Siva. She was upset, angry and jealous; Siva noticing her disposition asked her to look more closely. Kali found her own light-skinned image and realized her misperception. Siva calling her Tripurasundari said that she would remain sixteen for ever; that is how she became known by that epithet, Sodasi (and Gauri--one with golden color). Sodasi likes to sit sometimes on the lotus sprouting out of the navel of reclining Siva. Sodasi = sixteen year old
Kali (Parvati) shed the black skin (black sheath or Kosa); the emerging Ambika is called Kausiki. Another source tells that the dark sheath or Kosa became Kausiki. (Hey plastic surgeons, can you perform this surgical feat, peeling of the black skin in one sweep and making a person white like snow? It is not as simple as peeling a banana and make it look white. )
Kali is the Mother of the universe, the protectress of her children and the destroyer of evil. The elements in this legend of Kali portray certain qualities in a person and the accompanying passions. Man is divine and demonic at the same time, two sides of one person. There are gods and men who are divine; there are demons and men who are demonic. Kali is the destroyer of not only the demonic qualities in a person but also the karmic fruits that haunt the devotees in the form of rebirth and suffering.
The West has a field day with Kali's many faces and moods, longing for blood and gore, garland made of freshly cut heads, dead children dangling from her earlobes, skirt stitched together with severed hands, holding of blood-dripping head, disheveled hair, lolling tongue, liking for human flesh and animal sacrifices, reverse coition, walking, standing and sitting on her husband Siva, pendulous breasts, sometimes round and firm breasts, wrinkled skin. The west portrays her as nymphomaniac, though devoted to Siva. The west quotes Sahasranama Stotra in a perverse prurient glee that she is all Yoni, she likes dwelling in the Yoni, she wears a garland of Yonis, she loves and dwells in the Lingam, she swims and dwells in a ocean of semen. Yoni = Vagina, womb; Lingam = Phallus. Surface embellishments or apparent imperfections impress the surface gleaners who are content with what they see and gather and offer their pedestrian opinion, sometimes with Ph.D appended to their names and a title of chairperson and or professor of religion; the Pure and the devotee delve deep under the surface and gather nuggets of gold and diamond. Kali is such a study object for the surface gleaners and deep diggers. The gleaner loathes, fears, and or avoids pollution, violence, unconventional behavior, gruesome killing, fierce weapons, habits and habitats, associations, and practices of Kali. The gleaner takes everything about Kali literally, while the Tantric takes them as allegory. Pollution and purity are Mother Goddess; beauty and ugliness are Mother Goddess; killing and refuge are Mother Goddess; all polarities and dualities converge in Mother Goddess; there is nothing that she is not, because She is the Universe. A Tantric after initiation from a Guru dies to his flesh (allegorically) and the spirit rises to merge with Kali; that is Monistic Advaitism; Sadhaka and Brahman-Kali become one. Think of Catholic nuns being the true spouse of Jesus Christ; if one reads true love in it, that is correct; if one reads sexuality in it, he has the Anahata Chakra in his pelvic basin. Sadhaka's (aspirant) Bhutasuddhi, Nyasa, Pranayama, Dhyana, Mantra and Japa are acts that help involution of the soul (stripping of the soul of all its sheaths) and taking the soul to merge with the Ultimate; this process destroys the material categories (Tattvas) like ego and mind; thus, the soul is ready to merge with the Ultimate. Did you ever try to project your ego and mind to your employer and hope to stay on the job? Now you get the idea.
The ivory tower impudent impresarios with appended Ph.Ds and professorial titles perform in the classrooms of universities. These egomaniacal morons carry a ponderous bag of odoriferous ordure and outlandish ideas, which they feed to budding Ph.Ds, who roil and mire in the intellectual hogwash of the prurient professors and pretenders who know nothing about Kali. These low-minded ill-informed nincompoops with impressive titles and a mile long C.Vs. are born to dwell, feed and die in the cloaca. The plumber who unplugs the loaded toilet traps makes a beeline for the toilet and never visits the library or prayer room in the house. He obviously sees no need for it. To him a clogged toilet is more important than a prayer room or library. (It is an insult to the plumber to compare the professors to the plumber; try living with a clogged toilet.) Such is the nature of these professors and gutter minds, when they visit the House of Hinduism. These are the fellows who perform colonoscopy without preparing the patient for the procedure. They get a mother lode of excrement on their faces.
Here is Woodroffe who distinguishes himself on his observations. This is what Woodroffe says about the sexual references in Hindu religious texts. Page 182-183 The Garland of letters. One should worship the Devata in SAmarasya (literal meaning is bliss of sexual union). That is the gross meaning ; here it is Suksma (subtle) aspect. An erotic symbol is employed to denote the merger of the Jiva (individual soul) and the Supreme Consciousness in Ecstasy (Samadhi). The Tantrics largely employ such imagery which is to be found in the Upanishads and in the non-Indian scriptures. Read Song of songs. Christ's love for His bride, the church. (If the professor of religion in the West does not get this idea in his head how the heck this person is going to teach the future Ph.Ds.)
Spiritual union is symbolized and described by terms borrowed from the world of sensual man, because man knows sexual bliss and has no idea of the spiritual bliss. How can a Yogi describe Ecstasy? By referencing it to sexual bliss.
Love is not always sexual as everyone knows. Let us say, the bliss in sexual union as measured in units is one. According to the Tantrics, Sadhakas, and Kundalini practitioners, they experience spiritual bliss in units that exceeds sexual bliss exponentially. You have to be in it to know it. (In Lottery terms, you have to be in it to win it.) Without experiencing Spiritual Ecstasy, we cannot offer an opinion on its depth and dimension.
Love (காதல்) is defined the best in Tamil: Thannai maRandha nilaiyil uruvaagum unarvu = தன்னை மறந்த நிலையில் உருவாகும் உணர்வு = A spontaneous feeling of (overpowering earnest longing) attachment to God (a being, an object or an idea) that shapes up while you are in a state of forgetting yourself and contemplating the beauty and perfection of God (the object, being or an idea). True love is a surge in feeling of becoming one with a being, an object or an idea. This is the kind of love the Alvars had for Krishna, Nayanars for Siva, nuns for Jesus Christ, Saktas for Mother Goddess....
Coming back to Kali.
Could it be possible that a single supreme Goddess portrays the good, the bad, and the ugly of all humanity? The above illustrates the following. Man's life consists of seven stages: three of them animal, three of them human and one Yogi. The first six levels have corporeal support (adhara ) and the seventh is niradhara (incorporeal). They are Muladhara1, Svadhistana2, Manipura3, Anahata4, Visuddha5, Ajna6 and Saharara7 planes at the level of anus, genitals, navel, heart, throat, forehead and Niradhara, twelve inches above Brahma Randhara (anterior fontanel area) respectively. The first three centers are pelvic and abdominal. Pelvis and abdomen are the primary habitat of animals and men, who engage in deglutition and defecation, procreation and recreation, excretion, and emoting. It is living a life of animal passions, Kama, Krodha, lobha, Raga and Dvesha (lust, anger, greed, passion and hate). One should transcend the lower Chakras and ascend to higher chakras. When animal man rises to Anahata4 plane, the animal dies; he becomes human; all animal passions drop off; he rises above dualities of pain and pleasure, love and hate; he becomes aware of the inner man; the spirit is born; he has the marks and makings of Yogi. The animal consciousness morphs into human consciousness on its way to superconsciousness. The next plane is Visuddha Chakra at the level of the throat. This is the seat of Vaikhari speech and spirit. Vaikhari: (Articulation, Speech) It is the speech that originates in the larynx. Vaikhari is the mother (origin) of letters--Alphabet (Varna), syllables (Pada), words (Vak), and sentences (Vakya). Go to Sabda or Sound for more details. Here the spiritual man emerges; all human faults and foibles lose their moorings; he becomes more and more conscious of the inner man and eternal Truth; he drops out of the material world; androgynous Siva appears; the path of liberation starts here; the world images recede; spiritual world dawns on him. From here he rises to Ajna Center. Avidya (ignorance) leaves him and Vidya (spirtual knowledge) fills the vacuum. The divine Guru touches his life and consciousness; his mind and AUM fuse into one to merge with the Divine. The spirit rises and the body stays; he enters the state of Turiya.
Let me expand on Avidya and Vidya. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa sees Maya as Brahman in its twofold aspect: Avidyamaya and Vidyamaya. (Avidya = ignorance; Vidya = wisdom) Avidyamaya in terms of Kundalini Chakras is living in the pelvis and abdomen--Muladhara, Svadhisthana and Manipura Chakras of lower order; it is living a life of animal passions, Kama, Krodha, lobha, Raga and Dvesha (lust, anger, greed, passion and hate). One should transcend the lower Chakras and ascend to higher chakras. Avidyamaya keeps man in Samsara, a cycle of birth and rebirth. Vidyamaya represents the higher centers and consciousness of Anahata, Visuddha, Ajna and Sahasrara Chakras or stations of life. Once Vidyamaya conquers avidyamaya, the round of birth and rebirth is abolished and one enters a state of Mayatita, end of Maya or freedom from Maya. Maya is the power of Kali who transcends both types of Maya. She shines far above the clouds of Maya, under whose spell man lives.)
Dvadasanta. There are Âdhāra centers in the body; NirÂdhāra centers are Sahasrara Chakra and above. Adhara = support. Niradhara = without support; centers above the sixth Chakra. There are six Adhara Centers in the body: Muladhara, Svadisthana, Manipura, Anahata, Visuddhi, and Ajna each one presided by a deity, Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra, Mahesvara, Sadasiva, and Apara Bindu. Adhara yogam is accomplished by Kundalini yogi who ascends all the six centers to reach the seventh Sahasrara center in the crown presided by Paranada where he unites with Siva. Kundlini yoga is Adhara yogam. Beyond Ajna center, Sahasrara Chakra and other centers are the Niradhara centers without any apparent support; reaching it as a group is Niradhara yogam. Jnana and Prana ascend beyond the seven centers and course through eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh sthanas (posts), presided respectively by Parabindu, Paranada, Parasakti and Parasiva. Beyond these eleven centers is the 12th and furthest ultimate point of yogic journey (the Ultima Thule), Dvadasanta. This journey from Sahasrara chakra to the 12th point in space is Niradhara Yogam which is the state of the soul, when it loses its self-consciousness, attains Sivahood and remains without any attachment. Reaching Dvadasanta Siva (Paraipara) in Jnana form is Bliss. (Please note that there are several variants of the theme in different texts.) Many other texts say that this center is 12 inches above the crown as opposed to the above description. Realization from the 8th to 12th is progressively deeper and the 12th is ultimate experience.
Now we are coming back to the questions that start with "Could it be possible." Could it be possible that she chose to exhibit the submerged violence in all of us, span the spectrum of our deep unspeakable thoughts, acts and tendencies and dig deep into our fancies, fantasies, and fears? Could it be possible that she acted out the full spectrum of activities ranging from the virtuous to evil to teach us a lesson that all are her acts and that we are her instruments? Could it be possible that the lesson is that humanity has to rise above the beauty and beastliness and seek moksa or liberation? Could it be possible that the oppressed woman should rise and find her own identity and destiny without being tied to her father, husband or son? Could it be possible that a woman wants to be sexually liberated within the confines of marriage? Could it be possible that man should rise above prejudices and serve all equally, whether they are clean or dirty, rich or poor, conforming or non-conforming, ugly or beautiful, black or white, sick or healthy? No woman or goddess other than Kali has taken the challenge of man or god and faced him with eternal wisdom, boldness, power and bohemian disdain and wisdom, trampling all conventional mores dictated by man and god. Kali rises above man and god and treats them as her dear children. If she is that bad, why do male gods run to her every time they have trouble with Asuras, or demons? Who are the demons? They are the demons in us -passion, anger, greed, delusion.... They want her to do the dirty job? All gods donate their Tejas (power) and weapons; thus, she is the sum of all their destructive power, might, virtue and vice. She declares that she is the Mother Goddess of men, women, gods and other beings. She is Satchitananda, Being, Consciousness and Bliss. She is the only Mantra you need to know for Moksa.
Coming to reverse coition (Viparita Maithuna, female over male), the explanation goes as follows. There is Siva-Sakti; from Sakti proceeds Tattvas or building blocks of the universe, 36 in all. Go to TATTVAS-36 for more information. There are three broad categories of Tattvas: Suddha Tattvas, Pure principles, divine principles; Suddha-Asuddha Tattvas, pure-impure principles, human principles; and Asuddha Tattvas, impure principles, material principles.
Evolution (Pravrrti) is the creation of beings and universe from Siva-Sakti; that is the descent and centrifugal movement of Pure Consciousness of Siva into a universe of beings and matter with less or no consciousness, represented by normal coition. The consciousness and souls proceed from Siva and matter proceeds from Sakti.
Involution (Nivrrti) is the return of the souls and matter back into Siva and Sakti; that is the centripetal (ascendant) march of the souls back to Siva-Sakti, represented by reverse coition. In this process, the matter abides in Sakti and the souls subside in Siva.
As you may notice these is a descent of Pure Consciousness of Siva-Sakti in the first category to human consciousness in the second category to the materials such as ego, mind, intellect needed to embody the soul in the third category.
Material needed to embody the soul.
(13. Prakrti Tattva, 14. Buddhi, 15. Ahamkara 16. Manas, 17. hearing 18. tactile sense, 19. vision and color, 20.tasting, 21. smell, 22. speech, 23. grasp, 24. ambulation, 25. evacuation, 26. procreation, 27. sound, 28. tactile sense, 29. form, 30. taste, 31. odor, 32. ether, 33. air, 34. fire, 35. water, 36. earth.)
This descent from pure consciousness to an embodied human soul is called Pravrrti, evolution, centrifugal movement, or creation. The reverse process is Nivrrti, centripetal force or involution, where the human soul drops all matter (from 13 to 36) and other intermediate categories and merges with Sakti; reverse union of Sakti and Siva comes into play; that marks the end of creation. Reverse coition symbolizes this reverse process and decreation (involution), where all events are retrograde and in reverse process. Usual configuration of Siva and Sakti is Pravrtti, while reverse configuration is Nivrrti.
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Yoni Display and Designer Vagina The Pursuit of Perfect Vagina Cosmetic Vaginal Surgery Mother Kali would be outraged. Note: The words used here are the prevalent lingo in current use as applied to the subject on hand. No insult is intended or implied. Yoni: Sanskrit word for the womb, uterus, vulva, vagina, female organs of generation-- Rg Veda; a typical symbol of the divine procreative energy. The West and the media condemn genital mutilation of girls whereby the sensitive erectile tissue (the clitoris) is excised to prevent the female from experiencing orgasm, which in certain cultures is the exclusive domain of men. Designer Vagina (vulgarly characterized as Pursuit of Perfect Pussy) in the west is the latest genital mutilation of ostensibly gentler kind--painful nevertheless- wherein parts are physically altered by a licensed doctor (partial excision = Labial reduction) to please the ogling suitor and the contemplative psychic self. In genital mutilation of the cruel kind, the unwilling victim is subjected to physical extirpation of precious private parts by a village medic with a sharp razor. In the genital mutilation as practiced in the west, the genital parts are cut to please the man, either the beau or the spouse or the peers or the personal psyche. It is a statement of prevailing fashion and conformity with the peers. Newspapers are in the forefront in condemning the genital mutilation practiced in the African continent, but are silent on the genital mutilation in the west. It appears that man is the dominant determining factor in dictating the African and the Western genital mutilations. If man does not insist on it, it would not happen. Woman cuts her genitals to please the man. What an atrocity? Aim: a perfectly sculpted external genitalia and vagina.
Yonis Galore:Yoni Display is the British, American, Japanese, and European adaptation of and a radical variation from Tupperware Party, wherein the trusted females ranging from teens to women (who have borne children) come together, display, score, and compare their private assets with mirrors, giggles and smiles, effusive and appreciative ahhhhs and woooos, yet well-camouflaged and suppressed and 'sensitive' ughs, mutual psychological support and recommendation of a surgeon who specializes in Designer Vagina. Some girls and women do not like the natural, profuse, redundant and luxuriant wormy, wing-like Labia Minora (Redundant Loose hanging Inner Lips looking like a hanging bat or a butterfly) that wander away from their anchor loosely, project and hang far beyond their strict anatomical confines, look like flaps standing guard at the introitus and defeat the esthetic appeal to the self with the mirror, the peer and the prospective lover. Some teenage girls and women refuse to display their assets to their boy friends for private viewing privilege because in the group (display) session they found out that their hidden private parts in the pelvic basin do not meet esthetic display standards with the aid of unflattering mirrors and a forest of peering eyes of the peers. Simply put, they are ashamed of uncouth appearance of their genitalia. Their main complaint is the wormy-looking undulant wayward inner lips which, though supposedly smaller than the bigger cousins (Outer Lips) on the outside, overwhelm them and thus make the external genitalia look grotesque according to the owners. Another important unspoken factor for partial surgical excision is the labia minora or the inner lips are of darker color, even black in a white background in white people on account of natural normal hormonal preferential accumulation of melanin pigment in the Inner Lips (esp. more in the visible margins). Nipples are also darker than the surrounding skin. Genitals are usually of darker color compared to the rest of the body in all races; it is less so in Northern Europeans. The true color of a person is seen in sun-deprived arm pits and upper inner arm. The genitals and the nipples in both genders grow darker and darker going down from Northern Europe to Mediterranean, from Europe to Middle East, from Russia to south. There is a close and invariable correlation between natural blonde or red hair and the color of the genitals (Inner Lips) and nipples and yet the genitals and nipples are darker. Lesser the pigment in skin, hair, nipples, inner upper arm, armpits and Inner Lips, greater is the purity of the white race according to certain purists (and gleaned information), which, some say, is the origin of sayings: Gentleman prefer blonds; blonds have more fun. But others say such epithets, words, phrases and sayings point to perceived promiscuity and paucity of cortical mantle in red heads and blondes. With all the obsession with the color and degree of pigmentation of the Inner Lips, it is worthwhile to know that if it is not for Black African Eve and Adam, we won't be a living species. Blondes with light skin do exist in all races, probably as a result of mutant gene(s). African Adam and Eve in real life had black genitals and African features according to anthroposcopy, while European old masters painted and created Adam and Eve in their own image. Since God created Adam (and Eve) in His own image, God must be black. The limited man does not think so. Ugly Fanny Syndrome: (British nomenclature) Teenage boys and men walked out on peers and women with 'Ugly Fanny' with Loose pigmented Inner Lips for their allegedly sloppy appearance. Fanny = (British) Female genitals; (US) Buttocks. Upon presentation of the privates, they laughed truculently at the allegedly pukey pussy and left the lithotomic languid lass in limbo without a word. That is ego deflation of mortal kind. The message was loud and clear: "Trim and Tuck the Inner Lips; otherwise don't show me your ugly assets; I love you, babe." The men and boys conveniently ignore their own darker genitals. Listen to this trite: He is dark and handsome. When it comes to females, gentlemen prefer blondes. 'Trim N Tuck': No wonder the girls want to trim down and tuck them in (surgically). Trim N Tuck eliminates the dark edges of the Inner Lips too. That is a bonus. It is like wearing contact lenses which give resemblance to blue eyes in otherwise black or brown eyes. The 'Ughs' of beaus drive the girls with genital woes to painful surgery under local anesthesia. What a pity! The benign-looking surgeon with steady hands, steely eyes and a loaded macabre syringe gingerly injects the local anesthetic in one of the most sensitive tissues of the female anatomy, utters practiced jargon and mantras of kind and paternal words to the supine lithotomic wincing patient, gently jabs the needle in all cardinal directions, squirts the anesthetic as he withdraws the needle and gets ready with the scalpel to make the unkindest cut. The blood squirts from small arterioles like wayward hoses. The genitals are richly vascularized and innervated and hence the radiant heat and exquisite sensitivity. The surgeon applies pressure and dissolving sutures. Laser and curved scissors are other tools in his armamentarium or the surgical tool box. Labiaplasty = Labial reduction surgery: My understanding is that women do not want to have large labia Majora (Outer lips). They appear as protuberances (like buns) through swimsuits, tight jeans, and diaphanous see-throughs. The bucks, the beaus, (runway bottom-feeding) the buttheads and the beach bums may not like them. The women may not want to attract unkind attention from the ogling beach goers, who take a survey of the female anatomy paying particular attention to hills and valleys, clefts, drooping boobs, plunge push-up bras showing the jiggling, rippling and scintillating upper and inner quadrants of the breasts, see-sawing buns or the tight gluts. The models trotting on the runways have the surgery done for aesthetic reason. Heredity, irritation from tight clothes, hormones, and childbirth are some of the causes of profundity of pudendal mounds and Outer Lips. Surgeons catering to Beau Monde have aerobic instructors, marathon runners, equestrian instructors whose under and outer garments get sucked in to the cleft front and back and cause irritation of the wayward wings of Inner Lips gravitate to the lithotomy table for remodeling and renovation of their assets. Who wants to own a wrinkled prune-like floppy drooping Labia Majora (Outer Lips) with a sad sack look? No one, not even an octogenarian, who hasn't felt NAda (Sanskrit for thrill) for sometime, so they say. Plump up the Outer Lip; puff up the mounds; round out the Mound of Venus (Mons Veneris); sport the 'Perfect Vagina'; walk in jaunty steps; feel like a million bucks; saunter on the sidewalk with confidence with esthetically pleasing and appealing mounds. It is an inner feeling. Fat liposuctioned from the inner thigh or abdomen is used to fill the deflated Outer Lips. Vertical Lips vie with Horizontal Lips for augmentation for lovemaking, oscular pastime and tickling of male fantasy. The lovers bounce off the puffed up pads in their conjugal undulations. If some one has an elevated Mound of Venus, the surgeon suctions out the fat from the undersurface. If the prospective client does not want to wear the natural hood or hold a parasol over the clitoris, the surgeon simply trims it down, which the client believes enhances her orgasmic ripples. G-Spot gets a shot in the arm every four months to keep it in tune. No one has yet put the finger on the geographical longitude and latitude of the G-spot so much so that not even Lemuel Gulliver can discover and identify this landmark with confidence and certainty. Some sexologists believe they know the G-spot like the back of their hand. Not that G-Spot is not there but it is difficult to locate even by adroit digital probes. There is also a great demand for deforestation of the Pilose Escutcheon by laser hair reduction within the bikini line. Apart from the esthetics of non-hirsute silky-soft pudendum, it is an important step in eliminating infestation with pubic louse but is no guarantee against head louse. People with AIS (Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome) with missing Androgen Receptor gene (AR) have no pubic hair. There is a mounting demand for such esthetic Yoni surgery. Some gynecologists do not approve of these life-style procedures and the GYNs taking advantage of vulnerable and impressionable women and teenagers. (Distracters call them,' The Purveyors of Pelvic Basin.') Some worry about bleeding, infection, urinary and fecal contamination of the wound and stinging after surgery, damage to the nerves, residual pain, and the prospect of being grounded without intimacy for months. Some regard the life-style plastic surgeons as Tinkerers of Pelvic Basin for Profit or Profiteers of Pelvic Basin. The maligned surgeons say that the demand is there and they are simply servicing a growing demand. It is a demand and supply situation. Ask the satisfied women, whose sour love life was jump-started and rejuvenated after Vaginoplasty, reconstructive hymenoplasty and purse-string tightening of vaginal opening. Some point to the fact that hymenoplasty is an essential hymeneal procedure for girls from certain part of the world, because the girls may have to pay the ultimate price, death, for premarital sex and loss of integrity of membranous hymen and vaginal ring. The surgery is done by scores every day to protect and serve the erstwhile deflowered and now restored prospective brides from bridegrooms, brothers and others in that part of the world, who insist on vestal virgins who proudly shed their virginity with a show of blood on a white sheet on the marital bed. The Temple of Hermes: This industry of venereal delights is shaped around the vaginal vault with sex therapists, surgeons, physician assistants, psychologists, vaginal mold makers, nurses, support staff, stretch limos. Going to these outfits is like going to a place of worship, particularly the Temple of Hermes, who is the god of riches and the Phallic God with caduceus entwined by serpents. Hermaphroditus was the son of Hermes and Aphrodite. The medical term Hermaphrodite is derived from Hermes and Aphrodite. He became androgynous (at age 15) when nymph Salmacis saw the 15-year old son of Hermes in the pool, bitten by lascivious love, jumped into the pool and merged with him. It is a scientific fact that there are androgynous people with XX/XY genes in real life. This reminds me of Androgynous God of the Hindus, Ardhanarisvara, who is none other than Siva Himself. Priapus and Eros are also the sons of Hermes and Aphrodite. Goddess of Fortune or Fortuna is the daughter of Hermes and Aphrodite. Autolycus, the Prince of Thieves is the son of Hermes. With such a distinguished ancestry and heredity, no wonder the Temple of Hermes thrives in modern times. Here you have a Pantheon of gods, goddesses and the present day scalpel-wielding godlings catering to the weal and welfare of woman. I could see one day a temple in its true form with statues of Hermes, Aphrodite and their progeny line the corridors leading to the Inner Sanctum also called OR (Operating Room = Operating Theatre in UK), where the Inner Lips are sacrificed in a ritual grandeur, pomp and splendor with the life-style surgeons acting as the High Priests. The excised and sacrificed Inner Lips, removed from the sanctum and silenced forever find their way into the womb of Mother Earth as Medical Waste. God must be feeling wretched for having created this intrusive double-door at the entrance of the vaginal interoitus leading to the womb that for Yugas nurtured the human fetus. These Inner Lips go the way of foreskins, Appendices, and Gall-bladders. What was He thinking when He created these redundant useless organs? I don't see any sanity in God for making the nipples and the inner lips dark or black in white people. At last man comes to the aid of God to rectify God's egregious errors and make the woman whole. God's mistakes perpetrated on woman are unpardonable: the slant-eyes, the ugly nose, thin lips, thick lips, sagging boobs, ... The list goes on and on. For all these crimes against humanity, He should be put on trial. At last man rescues God for His sloppy job on woman. Thank You Man for your Grace. Take European Master painters; they knew better to draw Adam and Eve in their own image. What does God know? Zilch, Nada? God creates Adam and Eve in Africa in utter black color. What ignorance? Thank Man for fixing the errors of God. There is money to be made here by OB-GYNs with gold fingers. To the providers it is a question of demand and supply. It is legal. Otherwise, why would they do it? Neovaginoplasty is a recognized essential reconstructive surgery in the treatment of vaginal atresia and other malformations of the genital tract. Stone age savants are saying that we are seeing a transformation of woman who only wanted in the past a luxuriant thick cascading hair on the head, arch-like thin eyebrows and non-hirsute smooth skin in the rest of the body. Then came along nose job, fashioning of round eyes, breast augmentation, reduction, abdominoplasty tummy tuck, liposuction.... Now we have Designer Vagina. The question, they ask, whether all these are done to please the man, please themselves or please a perceived idealized woman hiding inside them? Virginal Encounter, 2nd time around with renovation and remodeling of assets. The remaking of a Vestal Virgin. "Play it again, Sam" Vaginal Rejuvenation Surgery.
Now hear this. There are women with children and men in their middle ages who want to experience Virginal Encounter with each other once again. The thrill of it is inexpressible according to them. What do you do to replay the first encounter for the man and the women? Man can't do much. Of course, there is Viagra and the rest. A woman can do a lot. She undergoes Vaginoplasty, Tightening of Vaginal ring, reconstruction of hymen, Trim and Tuck of the inner Lips and any other procedure deemed necessary by the surgeon. Lo and behold, we have a born-again neo-virgin with all renovated and remodeled vestal virginal parts in place for connubial sports. The surgeon appends a price tag that hangs from the clitoris. That is money in the bank. The price tag is in thousands of dollars. Imagine a woman going to a life-style surgeon who can attach price tags on the female anatomy in places like ears, eyes, eyebrows, nose, lips, forehead, face, breasts, nipples, navel, abdomen, thighs, genitals.... That can add up to $500,000 or more depending upon the skill and reputation of the cosmetic surgeon, office location and the weight of the buyer's wallet. The weight of the price tags alone can make the patient and her parts droop further down, which gives a good reason for the surgeon to fix and uplift the parts. Conclusion by Stone age Savant: Learn to love your body as it is. You will live in peace with yourself. Less pain, wear and tear on the pudenda. The all-comprehensive term would be Designer Yoni (and not Designer Vagina), the term that includes the womb, uterus, vulva, vagina, and all female sexual organs. You have to keep coming back to Greek and Sanskrit for your new terminology. Jeweled Nipples, Clitoris and Inner Lips: Female nipple piercing and genital piercing involving the clitoris, labia Minora (Inner lips) and other parts are not uncommon. Jewelry in moist areas tend to give infections. Allergy to the metal is not uncommon. You may see pre-op and post-op images of labiaplasty by using popular search engines with entry of word 'Labiaplasty.' There are OB-Gyns or plastic surgeons who would not perform labiaplasty, though there is no law against surgery of this type. It is completely legit. Photos before and after surgery: This is for your education. This is not a referral. The images are graphic and disturbing and the contents are for mature adults only. Do not enter this site, if you do not want or intend to visualize these disturbing graphic medical images, which are posted for education. Warning: This medical site is not authorized for teenagers and children; entering the medical site is attestation that you are an adult 18 and over.
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Kali
Black Kali, you stand on white supine Siva,
Tongue lolling out, blood dripping,
Right foot planted on his left chest,
Left foot balanced on his right thigh,
Your eyes far away, his orbs seeking mercy.
You are rock in your heart;
Your defiance is sublime.
White teeth, red tongue, black skin, owl eyes,
Floating feet, four hands, diadem rare,
Kilt of severed hands, limp tots on earlobes,
Wine breath, belly full of blood and carrion:
Your persona is forbidding.
Your anima is grace and mercy.
Left hand holds a severed head dripping blood,
Sword in right hand held aloft.
Burning eyes reduce demons to ash.
Turgid breasts suckle the gods.
Right side is nurture;
Left side is torture and killing.
You bore three sons Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva.
Brahma is dawn, Vishnu is sunshine, Siva is night;
Brahma is earth, Vishnu is sap, Siva is bark beetle.
Dawn follows night, Siva is god Right.
Three is One; One is three; Morph is the game.
Baddies are the bane of gods and all life.
Murder and mayhem is your game bringing order.
Mace to the face, sword to the neck,
They die by millions, rise by zillions --
Clones from drops of blood.
You sear the neck, and suck the marrow dry.
No spill, no clones.
Baddies sprout like mushrooms.
She plucks; she puts noose to the neck;
Like mollusks they slip away, and morph:
Butterflies here, wasps there, lions over there.
In one sweep she nets and stuffs them into her mouth;
Blood of Baddies are her beverage.
Elephants and mahouts are her meal;
Elephant’s tail disappears from between her lips
Like the snake going into the hole.
She is so hungry she could eat a horse!
Warriors are her favorite snack.
Mahisa is the head honcho of the bad lot;
He swells into a gargantuan, hiding the sun,
And matching her appetite for violence.
She drives a spear setting his soul free;
His body rolls downhill eastward, showing the orange orb.
The baddies and minions perish;
Jackals, hyenas and wolves come yelping,
Following the long scent of death.
Sniffing and salivating,
Pads drenched in shoals of blood,
Quadrupeds feast on choice carrion.
The feral feast ends amidst deathly peace and plenty.
The living furs tread on leaden stomach and feet
To their dens of waiting hungry pups.
She is a black beauty, wearing a garland of skulls.
She is Sound and all its emanations;
Skulls are letters; garlands are words and phrases.
She wears robes of sky; elements know her.
Sun is her son who cannot tan her any deeper;
Wind’s swish and coo do not bother her.
Earth is her daughter whose patience is eternal;
Water, the juice of life, is her daughter.
Moon is her daughter; she wears her like a jewel on her tresses.
Ether is her daughter who pervades all spaces.
Silent Sound vibrates; visual sound dances the body.
Anahata sound is unbeaten mental sound, heard in the spiritual heart.
Vaani is a still sound at the base of Axis Mundi;
Einstein’s ideas come piped-in from Vaani.
Articulate sound is intelligent whoosh of human larynx.
V. Krishnaraj
Kubjika Tantra states that the portfolios of creation, maintenance, and destruction are held by Brahmi, Vaishnavi and Rudrani and their husbands are dead bodies. Who wears the pants in the house? Who is the bread winner?
Devi is a palette of contrasts. She is Avidya (nescience) because she obscures and binds (the spiritually ignorant) until he is ready for vidya; she is Vidya (spiritual knowledge) because she ends Samsara and gives liberation and moksa. She is VAsaka Sakti and VAkya Sakti; VAkya Sakti is Brahman without attributes (Parabrahman); she is the goal of Upasana (worship); ordinary mortals except perfected Yogis cannot realize her. Tantrics worship VAsaka Sakti, the clinical Brahman, Sabdabrahman, Saguna Isvara, Saguna Brahman, or god with form and name; She is the fruit and the nut. She is the essence and the fruit. She is the manifestation of Cit and Cit itself. She plunges into the darkness and yet illuminates the whole universe. She opens and closes her fish-like eyes causing creation and destruction of myriad worlds. Cit = Sentient soul. Acit = insentient matter.
Vakya = meaning; essence. Vasaka = words, phrases etc
Vakya is meaning; VAsaka is words, phrases and mutterings of Mantra.
Every Mantra has two Saktis (powers): VAkya Sakti and VAsaka Sakti; the former is the seed and latter is the flesh of the fruit; the former is life of Mantra and the latter is the sustainer of life; the Vakya Sakti is subject and transcendent, and VAsaka Sakti is object and immanent; one cannot get to the seed without going through the fruit; one cannot understand the meaning and true nature of Vakya sakti without worshipping VAsaka Sakti (they are like Brahman and Isvara); Vakya sakti is without attributes (Brahman), VAsaka Sakti is with attributes (Isvara); Vakya sakti is seed and VAsaka Sakti is the tree; seed and Vakya Sakti are latent and dormant; tree and VAsakaSakti are awake and florid; Vakya Sakti is white light and VAsaka Sakti is spectral or rainbow colors, yellow, blue, red and more of Kundalini Devi. Paramatma (Krishna) is Vakya Sakti, while the son of Devaki is VAsaka Sakti. The god who is the subject of Mantra is Vakya Sakti and Pratipaadya (to be explained, meaning) Devata and god who is Mantra itself (god's sound body = Mantra) is VAsaka Sakti. Vakya Sakti is like clouds and VAsaka Sakti is like rain water. Vakya Sakti is unlimited; VAsaka Sakti is delimited. Vakya sakti is all-pervasive and unmanifest, while VAsaka Sakti is manifest. The VAsaka Sakti of Mantra with attributes is awakened by Siddhi of Sadhakas who then with the help Devi step into the monistic world of Brahman knowledge. (Ref. to white light and spectral or rainbow colors, and seed and tree are author's input.) VAsaka Sakti is the road to Vakya Sakti; the former is the means and the latter is the goal.
Kali caters to all kinds of devotees in her three forms: 1) Parabrahman, 2) Suksma (subtle) form--Mantra form, and 3) Gross (Sthula ) form or anthropomorphic form and its extensions and variations with many hands and the rest. Devi or Kali as Prakriti manifests as male and female and also Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesvara.
As Lalita, she is described as having slender bent waist from heavy erect protruding breasts which cause three folds of skin under her breasts (trivalīvalayopetām), swelling jeweled and belled hips, jeweled crown and hair decked with flowers, effulgent eyebrows outshining the eight-day moon, ruby cheeks, coral lips, bud-like teeth and eyebrows arched like the gates of the palace of Kamaraja, perfect nose, chin, arms, limbs, and knees tapering down to graceful bright feet, which shatter the darkness of her devotees and put the lotus to shame. She sheds moonlight from her face which soothes the triple maladies of misery (exogenous, endogenous, and theogenous miseries). She is Tripura because her body is made of three Saktis: Brahmani, Vaisnavi, and Raudri. The three cities are a metaphor for man with three qualities: Sattva, Raja and Tamas (virtue, motion and passion, lethargy). She is the transcendent beauty of three cities or three gunas or the three cities of the demons. These triads are called Kūtas ( Kuta, peaks, summit, prominence) or peaks of Sri Vidya Mantra. Vidya of TPS consists of three syllables. Pancha-dash-akshari (5 + 10 + syllables) Mantra is of three peaks (Kuta): Vagbhava-kuta, Kamaraja-kuta, Shakta-kuta. She is the Pervader of the three worlds: Heaven, earth and netherworld. She is the ruler of three bodies: Karana, Suksma and Sthula--causal, subtle and gross. TPS is the Self in the three states of consciousness of man: wakefulness, dream sleep, and deep sleep. She is also the Self in Turiya and Turiyatita in Yogis--my interpolation.
The many colors of Kali (palette of many colors)
The color of Devi changes; she is white when she confers liberation; she is red when she controls men, women and kings; She is saffron when she controls wealth. As the disseminator (facilitator) of enmity and dissension, she is tawny. While she is in the thrill of love, she is rose-colored. She becomes black while she kills.
Her subtle form is Kundalini in the body. As Mahadevi she is Sarasvati, Lakshmi, Gayatri, Durga, TPS, and Annapurna. Devi is the consort of Siva in the form of Sati, Uma, Parvati, and Gowri. She was Sati before Daksa's Yajna; when Siva refused permission to Sati to go to the Yagjna, she became the ten Mahavidyas: Kali, Bagala, Chinnamasta, Bhuvanesvari, Matangi, Sodasi, Dhumavati, TPS, Tara, and Bhairavi. MAHAVIDYAS. She disowned her father and gave up her name Daksayani (Sati) when her father Daksa did not invite her husband Siva for Yajna.
Sati became very angry with her father Daksa for not inviting her and her consort Siva for the Yajna and died while she was in Tapas, whose great internal heat consumed her body. The practice of Sati in the olden days among the widows takes its name from her. Grief-stricken Siva picked up the dead body of Sati and wandered around; the world was burdened with overpopulation and evil. Vishnu removed the burden of the corpse from the shoulders of Siva by cutting it into 51 pieces by his discus. Wherever the body parts fell, they became the Mahapithsthanas where Devi is worshipped along with her Bhairava.
| Brain | three eyes | tongue | nose | upper lip | lower lip | stomach | chin |
| kotari with Bhimlochan | Mahisamardini with Krodhish | Ambika with Unmatta | Sunanda with Traimbak | Avanti with Lambakarna | Fullara with Bhairabhvishesya | Chandrabhaga with Bakratunda | Brahmari with Vikrakatakkha |
| Hingulaya near karachi | Karavipur near Karachi | Jullundur, Punjab | Bengal | Ujjain | Birbhum, Bengal | Near Mumbai | Yanasthana |
| left cheek | right cheek | Upper teeth | lower teeth | left buttock | right buttock | two ears | hair |
| Visvamatuka with Dandapani | Gandakichandi with Chakrapani | Narayani with Sanghar | Barahi with Maharudra | Aparna with Bhairabha | Sri Sunadari withSundaranand | Jai Durga with Aviruka | Uma with Bhutesh |
| Godavari | Gandaki River | Suchidesa | panchasagar | Bhavanipur | Sriparvata | Karnat | Vrindavana |
| crown | nape of neck | Larynx | neck | rt shoulder | lt shoulder | rt arm | right palm | |
| Vimala with Sangbarta on Ganges | Mahalakshmi with Sarvananda | Kalika with Yogesh | Mahamaya with Trisandhyasur | Kumari with Bhairabha | Mahadevi with Mahodara | Bhavani with Chandrasekhar | Daksayini with Amar | |
| Kirit | Srihatta | Nalhati | Amarnath,Kashmir | Ratnabali | Mithila | Chattagram Bangaladesh | Kogram Manav Ksetra |
| elbows | middle of palm | ten fingers | left arm | rt breast | lt breast | Navel |
| Mangalachandi withkapilambar | Gayatri with Sarvananda | lalita withBhava | Bahula with Bhiruk | Tripuramalini with Bhisan | Shibani with Chanda | Jaidurga with Vaidyanathan |
| Ujjaini | Manibhanda | Prayag, Alahabad | Bahula | Jullendhar | Ramgiri | Bihar near Joshidi |
| navel | skeleton | rt hip | lt hip | Yoni | knees | lt thigh | rt thigh |
| Vimala with jagannatha | Devagarbha with Ruru | KAli with Asitananda | Narmada with Vadrasen | Khamakhya with Umananda | Mahashira with Kapali | Jayanti with Kramadisvar | Sarvanandarai with Bomkesa |
| Utkal Puri orissa | Kanchidesh | Kalmadhava | Sone River | Nilachal Hill Assam | Nepal | Jayanti Bengal | Magadha W.Bengal |
| rt foot | rt big toe | rt 4 toes | rt ankle | Center of the brow | hands | necklace | earrings |
| TPS with Tripurusha | Yogadaya with Khirakanta | Kali with Nakulesvar | Savitri with Asvanath | Mahisamardini with Bakranath | Nandini with Chanda | Nandini with nadikishore | Visvalakshmi with Kāla |
| Tripura | Khirgam | Calcutta | Kurukshetra | Bakresvar | Jessore | Nandipur | Benares |
| back | ankle bells | lt 4 toes | left ankle | lt foot |
| Sharvani with Nimisha | Indrakshi with Rakchesvara | Ambika with Amrita | Bhimarupa with Sarvananda | Vramari with Isvara |
| Kalikashram | Sri Lanka | Virat | Bivasa | Shalbari W.Bengal |
