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She is black ( or blue ) skin and bountiful hair, and four hands, two clutching a cleaver and a torch, and two in the mudras of "giving" and "protecting". Her vahana is the faithful donkey. The destroyer of darkness and ignorance, Kaalratri is the seventh Nav Durga, the enemy of ignorance. Kaalratri's most famous shrine is in Calcutta ! |
N.Madasamy Kaalratri : The Power that Elevate Now I reaaaaaaaally like this Devi. I mean look at HER and look at all the other navdurga. SHE sticks out like a soar thumb. Why is she so angry or mad about? It is like watching a movie. In the beginning we were being shown such beautiful pictures and we began to create this wonderful thoughts, then suddenly BANG!!!! without warning we were being thrust with image of death and destruction. It simply just throw ones mind in disarray. I think more of like a shock treatment and thereafter one began to question WHY? IS that what Kalarathri is all about? To shake us up? To put our mind in confusion? As her name suggest "night of time". All life is unfolded by time. One does not know what time will bring forth. If we look at the whole reality of it, just when we thought that our life is so good. So comfortable and peaceful, suddenly all these are being taken away from us. Death, earthquake, flood etc. SHE really hit us hard. SHE has shown us the reality of life, for nothing is permanent in this world. Permanency is an illusion. "This throwing mind into disarray or shocking you to reality is what will take the mind higher" as I am being told once. Perhaps this is what Kaalratri is meant to be : The power that will take our mind higher. |