kali mataSpend some time studying this depiction of Kali Mata. This metaphor is designed to assist you in understanding exactly who She is. Allow yourself to absorb every detail without trying to understand it. Do this as a meditative practice where all judgment is dropped momentarily. When this task is completed, you may read the description below, while knowing that the words are no more that inadequate vessels that carry a message of immeasurable depth. Through you're own focus on the picture, Kali will bring full realization as time unfolds.
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understanding kaliEverything about Kali’s pictorial form is a representation of what She is to us. To examine this picture is to remember why we are here.
In this world, Kali has created two fundamental forms: the male and the female. The male form represents our obsession with the physical, the female, the pull of the spirit, our Godliness. In reality, we are formless, we are gender-less, though Kali chooses these representative bodies to demonstrate the level of our obsession with our ideas, the material life and the intellect. Each one of us possesses both male and female qualities, and our body structures reflect how we view ourselves in the world. It must be emphasized here, that the body that we inhabit is only a metaphor for our ideas, and as couples in relationships (no matter what the gender combinations are) we are playing out the roles that help us to acknowledge our imprisoning beliefs, confront them and let them go. A male person can have a predominately female aspect and a female can possess a very egoic, physical obsession with the world. The body that we possess as individuals do not immediately identify our order of values. In this world, Kali dictates the roles that we play according to what it is that we need to heal, and the body-spirit arrangements belong to Kali's ingenious Divine Plan. |
We live in a male-dominated world, where all decisions arise out of our belief systems, and it is a world where all our beliefs belong to a mind-set of fear and a desperate need to control that fear. This is Kali's way of showing us the repression of the spirit, the depths at which we have buried the memories of who we truly are. To bring about a shift in our values, we have to first bring about a shift in our beliefs about who we really are. To be free, each one of us must turn inwards to the Divinity of the True Self. Freedom from fear is gained by turning away from the physical world and re-experiencing a deeper awareness that expands beyond the physical manifestations of our ideas.
kali's pictorial representation
In this depiction of the Goddess Kali, She rises out of the Black Void of Her cape to meet us on the battlefield. She calls our female Selves, the aspect of us that controls what happens in the physical maleness of the body form. Whether we possess male or female bodies, She calls the spirit to the astral planes and in this picture we are represented bare-breasted and waving scythes, ready to heal ourselves by ending the tyranny of the ego. Kali teaches us that when we suppress the female spirit, we suffer. When we vanquish our fears and allow spiritual values to guide us, we transform. Kali leads the spiritual female aspects into battle against the egoic male state. In our female, spiritual state, we proudly display nurturing breasts, symbolizing the female role in bringing the Truth to the collective consciousness. Instead of feeding the old recycled ideas of male consciousness, as females we feed the nectar of the Gods to the family of humankind.
Kali demonstrates the power of the female element as She places her feet upon Her own male counterpart. Shiva is Her physical manifestation; He is the structure of the universe, He represents the physical elements of nature, He is form. Kali shows us that we are both elements; we are male and female, we are physical and spiritual, and that when our time in this world is done and the head of the ego is finally severed, we must let go of the idea of the physical form. She places her feet upon Shiva to demonstrate the submissive position of the world of ideas, of the male intellect. She states clearly in this action that without Her, without the female elements of God, Shiva cannot exist. Shiva lies powerless as She proudly sports a necklace of heads, representing the ego of humankind. The female warriors in the picture follow her example, as they render their male counterparts powerless. They enter the battlefield of ideas, and conquer their own male counterparts, freeing the collective from the Wheel of Time and Death.
Kali demonstrates the power of the female element as She places her feet upon Her own male counterpart. Shiva is Her physical manifestation; He is the structure of the universe, He represents the physical elements of nature, He is form. Kali shows us that we are both elements; we are male and female, we are physical and spiritual, and that when our time in this world is done and the head of the ego is finally severed, we must let go of the idea of the physical form. She places her feet upon Shiva to demonstrate the submissive position of the world of ideas, of the male intellect. She states clearly in this action that without Her, without the female elements of God, Shiva cannot exist. Shiva lies powerless as She proudly sports a necklace of heads, representing the ego of humankind. The female warriors in the picture follow her example, as they render their male counterparts powerless. They enter the battlefield of ideas, and conquer their own male counterparts, freeing the collective from the Wheel of Time and Death.