I can not ! my words are lost in bursts of bliss when i talk of my mother.
O Kali, my Mother full of Bliss!
Enchantress of the almighty Siva!
In Thy delirious joy Thou dance st,
clapping Thy hands together!
Eternal One! Thou great First Cause,
clothed in the form of the Void!
Thou wear est the moon upon Thy brow.
Where didst Thou find
Thy garland of heads before the universe was made?
Thou art the Mover of all that move, and we are but Thy helpless toys;
We move alone as Thou mo vest us and speak as through us Thou speak est.
But your worthless son says, fondly berating Thee:
Confoundress! With Thy flashing sword
Thoughtlessly Thou has put to death my virtue and my sin alike!
A poem of Vivekananda about Kali
Perchance a prophet thou-
Who knows? Who dares touch
The depths where Mother hides
Her silent fail less bolts!
Perchance the child had glimpse
Of shades, behind the scenes,
With eager eyes and strained,
Quivering forms-ready
To jump in front and be
Events, resistless, strong.
Who knows but Mother, how,
And where, and when, they come?
Perchance the shining sage
Saw more than he could tell;
Who knows, what soul, and when,
The Mother makes Her throne?
What law would freedom bind?
What merit guide Her will,
Whose freak is greatest order,
Whose will resistless law?
To child may glories ope
Which father never dreamy;
May thousandfold in daughter
Her powers Mother store.
I am sorry, even i cannot explain in words the 'Divine Mother'. So i need a help with quotes. But in simple words Kali means more than what i can really say. Today i do not find any difference between any women in this world, because her grace has filled my heart.
'There she stands, all alone....away from the glam and glitter of a thousand gods.
In the darkness...where a 100 demons wouldn't dare....In the bliss...where all the knowledge ends..
There she stands...my mother...inviting me to the sleep of happiness...in her arms'
Kali represents the entire physical plane.
She is the drama, tragedy, humor, and sorrow of life.
She is the brother, father, sister, mother, lover, and friend.
She is the fiend, monster, beast, and brute.
She is the sun and the ocean.
She is the grass and the dew.
She is our sense of accomplishment and our sense of doing worthwhile.
Our thrill of discovery is a pendant on her bracelet.
Our gratification is a spot of color on her cheek.
Our sense of importance is the bell on her ankle.
The full and seductive, terrible and wonderful the Earth mother always has something to offer.
Kali is the most loving mother in the Universe. You looks fearful but is tender at heart.
The love between the Divine Mother and her human children is a unique relationship. Kali, the Dark Mother is one such deity with whom devotees have a very loving and intimate bond, in spite of her fearful appearance. In this relationship, the worship per becomes a child and Kali assumes the form of the ever-caring mother.
"O Mother, even a dullard becomes a poet who meditates upon thee raiment ed with space, three-eyed, geriatrics of the three worlds, whose waist is beautiful with a girdle made of numbers of dead men's arms..." (From a Karpuradistotra hymn, translated from Sanskrit by Sir John Woodroffe)
Who is Kali?
Kali is the fearful and ferocious form of the mother goddess. She assumed the form of a powerful goddess and became popular with the composition of the Devi Mahatmya, a text of the 5Th - 6Th century AD. Here she is depicted as having born from the brow of Goddess Durga during one of her battles with the evil forces. As the legend goes, in the battle, Kali was so much involved in the killing spree that she got carried away and began destroying everything in sight. To stop her, Lord Shiva threw himself under her feet. Shocked at this sight, Kali stuck out her tongue in astonishment, and put an end to her homicidal rampage. Hence the common image of Kali shows her in her melee mood, standing with one foot on Shiva's chest, with her enormous tongue stuck out.
The Fearful Symmetry
Kali is represented with perhaps the fiercest features amongst all the world's deities. She has four arms, with a sword in one hand and the head of a demon in another. The other two hands bless her worshipers, and say, "fear not"! She has two dead heads for her earrings, a string of skulls as necklace, and a girdle made of human hands as her clothing. Her tongue protrudes from her mouth, her eyes are red, and her face and breasts are sullied with blood. She stands with one foot on the thigh, and another on the chest of her husband, Shiva
Hinduism : Please explain in your own words the divine mother 'Mahakali' ?
