The Wisdom of Kali

As I meditate on my Mooladhara Chakra.. the Root Chakra..gently breathing into the base of my spine.. the vision of Kali’s face suddenly looms up..Red tongue..big eyes.. but it is Kali with a difference…no violence..no intoxication..no anger..the face is peaceful ..the eyes are serene..they look at me..they radiate compassion and peace.. the eyes of a mother..the Kundalini Mother..

My first vision of Kali..in her benign form..I wonder what she brings..What wisdom does she awaken..I ponder and I search..

“..In Tantra the goddess or female force Shakti is worshipped. Shakti is the power of the Kundalini energy dormant in the Muladhara chakra.

When Kundalini awakens, we start to experience all the many aspects of the goddess as we go through a spiritual rebirth. These aspects are represented by the ten mahavidyas (ten wisdom goddesses). As we experience each of the manifestations of the wisdom goddess, we receive the lessons associated with that goddess as we approach self-realisation. One of the aspects to be experienced is the goddess Kali.

Kali in Sanskrit means time. In time everything changes, grows and develops and goes beyond time itself. Time is a conscious energy and could be described as a womb giving it a female connotation. We look back in time and see how we have changed and how we have no control on the birth, decay and death cycle, and we look forward which is inevitable. Time is precious, yet we lose it and we become attached causing suffering and grasping…Kali teaches us to give up our attachment and help us develop mastery over time.

Time is both creation and destruction. In order to create, we must destroy in order to make space for the new, which means we must first let go of the old, releasing our attachment to material nature and go beyond earthly bondage. In order to be delivered beyond our suffering we must relinquish ego and surrender it to Kali.

                                      

 Kali is the goddess of destruction and she destroys everything in her path except Shiva himself. Through our own life force (life force being prana, prana is delivered throughout the body in the blood) we experience time, and Kali is also represented as Prana, the divine mother of our life who gives us the vital energy and power for our bodily system. As such, Kali is associated with blood and is often depicted drinking the blood of all beings representing life digesting and renewing itself. Time is responsible for our death and decay, and that which has no real substance, meaning that Kali is also death in that she is the doorway to the eternal.

By meditating on Kali, you are meditating on the rhythms of life; death to life, life to death and beyond. Worries, anxieties, separateness and attachments will die daily if you meditate on Kali.
Kali also relates to the air element, Vayu as she is mobile, subtle and transformative. She is the lightening that transforms quickly, unpredictably and radically. Her perception of truth is like lightening, dissolving illusion. In our body, air exists as prana hence her pranic association..."

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