To: alt.fan.kali.astarte.inanna
From: dinuroman@aol.com (DinuRoman)
Subject: KALI -- Power of Time & Night of Eternity (long!)
Date: Kali Yuga 49941128

                             K A L I

                 The Power of Time (KALA SHAKTI)

                               And

               The Night of Eternity (MAHA RATRI) 


The Meaning of Time 

     The Supreme Cosmic Consciousness is the Eternal and Unique
Ultimate Reality.  At the beginning, It becomes aware of Itself,
sustaining the essence of all things and worlds, being unaffected
by Time.  The Cosmic Creation starts through the expansion of this
Timeless Spirit, which manifests everything that was implicitly
inside It.  This expansion of the Supreme Being, this manifestation of
objectivity that originates in the initial subjective state and
which is measured by succession, movement and event is called Time
(KALA).  In the cosmic creation, Time has a triple status,
therefore the creatures have the relative experience of Time  as
past, present and future.  This experience is relative because the
past is that which was formerly present, the present is that which
was formerly future and the future is that which will become
present and, as the time passes, past.       

     There is therefore a continuous movement, a sequential rhythm
that is a seemingly infinite continuum of apparently distinct
parts. The existence of these parts, distinct demarcations in the
course of the successive development of everything that exists, is
the main characteristic of Time.  This characteristic is called
death.  In Sanskrit, death is KALA, (fragmentation energy), which
means also "time."


The Necessity of the Continuous Change

     There is a fundamental necessity of the human nature, an
essential aim of embodied life: to look for Infinity starting from
a finite basis.  This necessity expresses itself in the endless
changing of the finite forms (bodies).  Through this endless
changing of forms, the Individual Spirit accumulates experience. 
It adds seemingly disparate moments of time into a continuous
stream of existence.  This experience is its past.  The Individual
Spirit accumulates knowledge, intelligence, pleasure, happiness,
suffering etc., and all these are eternally stored in its
superconscious memory.  For this process, the continual change of
form is absolutely necessary and essential, but for the spirit that
is "imprisoned" within the body, the change of forms means
dissolution.  This is the Law of Death.

     From this it is clear that death is not a negation of life,
but a necessary process of continuing life. The continual change of
form is the only immortality that can be attained  by the finite
living substance.  This continual change becomes valuable only if
directed by a lucid mind, which is the only element capable of
structuring life experiences and extracting the necessary lessons. 
Without this continual change through death and rebirth, it is
impossible to realize the tremendous inner wisdom required for
spiritual evolution.


KALI, the Power of Time

     Death, dissolution, lack of freedom, compulsion, fighting, suffering,
submission to something that appears to be "Not-I" -- all these are the 
most frightening, terrible and undesirable things to our ephemeral and 
limited power of understanding. The feeling of being devoured, 
humiliated, broken into pieces, destroyed, annihilated is the very 
pricking of death -- the power that pushes us toward evolution.  In the 
TANTRIC tradition, this Supreme Power of Time (KALA SHAKTI), the totality 
of the present Moments of Time, which form together the Eternity going 
back toward the beginningless Past and going forward toward the endless 
Future, is called KALI.  

     In the TANTRIC vision, the material world in which we live is not an
illusion (as it is stated by other spiritual paths) but a magical reality.  
For the TANTRIC adept, spiritual attainment and total freedom are to be 
attained here and now i.e., in this material world and during this life.  
To realize this task, each individual who follows this extremely efficient 
path has to get a plenary experience, because life is devoured by time and 
death is the final point of life. The paralyzing and uncontrollable fear 
of death is the attitude that make us mortal beings.  In this respect, no 
spiritual path will be efficient until the individual has understood the 
meaning of death and has surpassed, even to a small extent, his illogical 
fear of it.  Death has to be faced permanently with courage.  Only in this 
way can the meaning of time be lived and understood.

     For this, TANTRA Science points out the frantic worship of KALI --
The Supreme Power of Time, as a way to overcome, among other things, fear
of death.  This is the first and the most important step in the Science of 
Self-Knowledge.


The Symbolic Image of KALI

     Death is spying on us continuously through the destructive Power of
Time (KALI), lurking in the Darkness like a starving and ferocious beast, 
devouring the whole Cosmos, having no mercy for anyone who indulges in the 
dissolving ocean of the ephemeral. This is why the wise TANTRIC adept sees 
the world (Universe) as an endless cemetery (SMASHANA) in continuous 
destructive becoming.  In this Cosmic Cemetery of the Dead Worlds, the 
heavenly fascinating Mother KALI is dancing ceaselessly.  The cemetery or
the cremation ground are the places where the overwhelming Power of Time
(KALI) can be easily felt and the telepathic communion with KALI can be 
extremely strong.  KALI's dance symbolizes a continuous, gigantic movement 
of endlessly flowing time-moments, which follow each other in a 
simultaneous and infinite sequence.  For the Present, KALI is the
Merciless Death.  Dancing victoriously upon the white corpse of the dead
SHIVA (which becomes "SHAVA" - "corpse", symbolizing the Everlasting 
Male Principle, the Pure Consciousness), She is terribly frightening with 
Her ferocious fangs and Her disdainful and arrogant grin.  The Corpse is 
what remains when the Cosmos falls helpless under the unique Power of Time 
(KALI).  When this Feminine Power is polarized through the beatific union 
with SHIVA (The Male Power) She is the beneficent Giver of Life.  But when 
SHIVA is without His Power, He is only a corpse and the destructive Power 
of Time is the only thing that remains. This is why KALI is symbolically 
represented dancing upon the dead Universe.  She is the Supreme Conqueror 
who laughs, in Her total triumph, at all those who, in their vanity or 
ignorance, hope in vain to escape Her.  

     Her three eyes, like dark lotus calyxes, have the questioning glance 
of the frightened gazelle; they suggest the control over the past, the 
future and (the third eye) the present.  Symbolizing the exalted forces 
of Sun, Moon and Fire, the three eyes of Mother Kali show Her absolute 
control over all the Universes.  Her tongue is hanging (symbol of cosmic 
sensuality and also of continuous destruction) and She is completely
naked, sensual and entirely shameless.  Her nakedness, which both attracts 
and repels, is a symbol of the impartiality of Time.  Her wonderful and 
swelling breasts with their two dark points are enough to infatuate a saint.  
They represent the Motherhood of a ceaseless creation.  Her body is trim as 
the shaft of a lance.   In her absolute nakedness, radiating with vivid 
youth, She is free of all covering of Illusion -- Nature stripped of "veils."

     KALI is completely black -- just as all the colors disappear in
black, so all worlds disappear in Her; also, black is the color of AKASHA, 
the Cosmic Ether, the quintessence of the manifested worlds: this 
quintessence is KALI.  Kali is black because she is the doorway through the 
voidness of both inner and outer space.  Her blackness is made up of all
colors and, like the black holes of the Universe, she ultimately absorbs
everything that has ever been created.  All brightness eventually recedes 
into blackness, just as all spirituality eventually merges into Kali-
consciousness. 

     She wears a necklace of fifty skulls (symbolizing the fifty letters
of the Sanskrit alphabet, the repository of knowledge and wisdom).  These
represent the fifty fundamental frequencies of the Creative Cosmic 
Emanation, which hold together the phenomenal world.

     She has four arms (symbol of the four directions of Space, and the
complete cycle of Time): the two left hands hold a sword (sometimes a
scythe or a sickle, symbol of the energies of the Moon, which carry a 
powerful destructive energy) and a bleeding newly severed head (the trophy 
of victory), which symbolizes the destruction (death) of the limited Ego 
and the obliteration of the normally restricting forces of destiny.       

     In this respect, certain esoteric texts say: "Die and be born again."  
In ancient times, an Initiate was a person who was born twice.  Jesus said:  
"No one can see the Kingdom of my Father unless he is born again."  (John,3,3)

     The upper right arm is kept in the gesture (MUDRA) of banishing fear
(terror).  Fear is a Universal Law.  Everything that exists in a limited
form fears the unknown (i.e., that which is beyond the possibility of 
attaining and/or perceiving).  Only the supreme Power of Time (KALI), which 
has no limits, is free of fear and can help the practitioner who invokes 
Her with total devotion, to overcome all fears.  In this respect, MAITHUNA 
-- the TANTRIC sexual love (successive orgasms without ejaculation), being 
governed by KALI, suspends the human limits and thus opens the door to That 
Which Has No Limits.


The Gifts of KALI

     The other right arm offers wonderful and magical gifts to those who,
through devotional contemplation and telepathic identification (SAMYAMA),
succeed in knowing Her intuitively.  What are these gifts?  Spiritual
initiation, protection and guidance, metaphysical knowledge, unknown
skills and total efficiency in action, paranormal powers, love, wisdom. 
All the usual joys of the ordinary human life are incomplete and
transitory, being just dim manifestation of the Eternal Cosmic Bliss. 
These dim joys are short lasting, being quickly smothered by pain and
suffering.  The true happiness can exist only in that which is permanent. 
Only the Power of Time (KALI) is permanent, only She can give us totally
pure beatitude.  KALI gives us the power of controlling time by giving
access to the everlasting present, the giver of the perfect and eternal
happiness, experienced in a hypercondensed form as The Eternal Essence.

     This is the traditional symbolic image of KALI. A secret TANTRA
describes KALI in the following manner:

          ". . . very dark of  body and with mighty breasts, She rides a
lion.  She enraptures  the world and bears up the earth.  She is the
primordial force,  whose inflorescence  is the Universe, whose body is the 
World."

     Before the mind's eye of the Initiate who is absorbed in meditation
upon Her, this symbol reveals two personalities of The Mother KALI: 
DAKSHINA KALI (the "left" or "south-facing", the delusive aspect of KALI) 
and BHADRA KALI (the "true" KALI).


The Two Personalities of KALI

     DAKSHINA represents the skillful action, the adroitness in execution
that defeats all obstacles and that is born from a wise intuitive 
discrimination (clear distinction).  It is true that KALI is the Life Power 
(SHAKTI) of the Universe, the prodigious force of all Gods, but for
those who are not yet ready for the spiritual transformation, She leaves
behind Her only death and destruction.  But this action of destruction is
always right, because it is done with a wise purpose that cannot be
understood until afterward. This destruction is not a sadistic murder, but
an intelligent and skillful success that prepares the background of an
accelerated spiritual awakening.  The flickering flames of destruction are
full of compassion.  This aspect of KALI is called DAKSHINA KALI. 

     What is the purpose of this merciless destruction?  This hidden
purpose is creation that is continuously improving through re-creation,
with the aim of becoming right and good because all happiness belongs to 
the state of perfection.  This state of perfection or Supreme Truth is 
called BHADRA; it is brought through Death and Destruction of that which 
is not good and perfect. BHADRA KALI is therefore the bright, wonderful 
and loving KALI.


Crisis Leads to Opportunities

     KALI is the eternal impelling force of evolution, the Transforming
Time.  Our successive lives are just doors toward Immortality: the
terrifying Mother KALI is whipping the mortal human being
with the whip of Death, pushing him toward Immortality.      

     In the Cosmic Hierarchy, KALI, the Power of Time (KALA SHAKTI) is the 
highest and the most abstract manifestation.  In a world in which 
happiness is closely related to attachment, KALI represents a stage of
beatitude (ANANDA) that is beyond any egotistical attachment.  This is why
She is apparently terrifying.  For attaining the Supreme Happiness, the 
human being has to give up through detachment (VAIRAGYA) all that brings 
incomplete or transitory happiness.  

     At the beginning, this appears as a Dreadful Gloomy night, the sum of 
all fears and the exact opposite of what all of us want from life.  But in 
and beyond this state of supreme crisis, the biggest opportunity is found: 
The Pure Immortal Existence.


KALI, the Night of Eternity

     From the point of view of the ephemeral existence, KALI is the
destroyer of everything.  Her male counterpart is The Time, MAHAKALA or
KALA SHIVA, called also RUDRA -- the Master of Tears or The Howler.  But
when everything that is transitory is destroyed, the true face of Eternity
is revealed as an Endless Peace and Quiet Beatitude.  This aspect of KALI
is called The Transcendental Night of All-Inclusive Eternity (MAHA RATRI).
 In this state, Her male counterpart is SHIVA, the Supreme Absolute
Reality of Pure Consciousness.


Manifestations Sustained by KALI's Energy

     In the material world, huge natural disasters, earthquakes, volcanoes
eruptions, tornadoes, floods, situations of intense and tormenting crisis,
mass destructions, riots, plague, unknown and incurable diseases, deadly
epidemics, revolutions, wars, etc., are initiated and sustained by Her
Terrible Energy. 

     In the individual being, KALI is the tremendously transforming power
of love and frantic (passionate) sexuality viewed as a bottomless impulse
toward spiritual evolution.  KALI is thus the Serpent Power (KUNDALINI)
hidden in MULADHARA CHAKRA, the subtle center of power located between the 
anus and sexual organs.  When this terrible Power awakens and is raised 
along the spine up to the crown of the head, it gives free access to the 
Cosmic  hyperconsciousness.  This awakening is by no means possible without 
the ecstatic divine Grace of Mother KALI.     


The Goddess of TANTRIC Love

     The center that radiates the most the Power of KALI in the human
female is the YONI (the vagina) of a woman in intense sexual excitement. 
The YONI YANTRA (the diagram of the female power) is the well known
inverted triangle, the immemorial sign of woman. 

     All females in all the worlds are but parts of KALI, and this is
especially true during the dark fortnight of the Moon (with a peak three
days before full Moon) and at the time of menstruation, when the vibrations 
of KALI are increased in women.  The YONI (vagina) is extolled as a sacred
area, the transmission point of the subtle forces, the gateway to cosmic
mysteries.  There are sixteen distinct KALAS -- vaginal secretions (some of 
them unknown to medical science), physical manifestations of extremely 
subtle and powerful Cosmic Energies that are focused on this sacred area.  
These energies, when absorbed and polarized, during the TANTRIC sexual
love, by the male force, can give terrible magical powers to the couple.  
     
     Mother KALI is the guardian muse of the TANTRIC love (successive
orgasms without ejaculation), and the Giver of Power to the couple who
consecrate the Love Ritual (MAITHUNA) to Her.  KALI is pure energy in its
original form, the transcendental expression of womanhood.  KALI is the
awakened KUNDALINI energy, the transcendental power of sex, the lustful
embodiment of the unrestrained, consuming, frantic love.  With SHIVA as
Her support, there is nothing in all the worlds that is outside Her domain.  
Though She is externally awesome, Her innermost nature is kind and 
compassionate.  

     KALI is pleased when the passionate urge of lustful, detached desire
for union with Her  causes the vital power to awaken, enter and rise along
SUSHUMNA NADI.  Thus, She attracts with incredible power and destroys all
that is impure and bad, perverse and wrong in our life.  She fulfills all 
sincere and intense desires.  She can bring in one day transformations that 
may take centuries to set up without Her help.

     KALI likes garlands of blood-red flowers, rhythmic music, sensual
dance, pure red wine, spontaneous laughter, passionate and debauched love,
orgiastic carnivals and "all-or-nothing" mental attitude.

     In the active role of physical love, KALI embodies the lustful
mistress, the sacred prostitute, the sex initiatress.  A woman becomes one
with KALI by coming to terms with her awesome power of initiating (i.e.,
of starting, impelling, urging).  As an Initiatress in the ultimate sexual
mysteries of KALI, woman is the ultimate GURU of man.  When hypocrisy,
self-doubt, selfishness, jealousy, pride and envy are totally eliminated
>from a woman's psyche, the deep intuitive wisdom of KALI emerges.  Charged
with sexual energy, KALI's wisdom acts as a potent initiation into the
nature of Reality.

     KALI is fearless and passionate;  She does not hold back Her favors. 
For a woman to truly embody KALI, she must get in touch with her own
sexuality and dive deep into her  unconsciousness.  For a woman to become
KALI she must take her man beyond mundane conventions, beyond any 
limitations, beyond the expected.  In this aspect woman acts as the 
destroyer of illusion and as the fulfiller of desires.
     
     The MANTRA (subtle attuning sound) of KALI is the terrible sonorous
frequency which, at the lowest level, manifests as sexual drive.  For the
ignorant individual, this is a deadly power.  For the Initiate, this is the 
supreme power that opens the door to immortality.  Through transmutation and 
sublimation of this energy, the human life is completely transformed and 
the terrestrial existence is plenary spiritualized.

     All the powerful and sudden euphoric feelings (such as the sexual
orgasm without  ejaculation), all the sincere and intense feelings of love
and happiness, all pleasures (especially the erotic and refined sexual
pleasures) are the beneficent manifestations of KALI. 


KALI is the Life Force

     KALI is the Cosmic Life Force (PRANA) of the Universe.  Besides
absorption (LAYA) into Her Subtle sound (MANTRA), a very efficient 
procedure of communion with Her is the  breathing awareness i.e., 
continuously focusing the attention upon the breathing process without 
influencing it, like a non-intruding witness.  Merging his attention 
continuously, even during daily activities, with the inhalation and 
exhalation (and especially with that which is beyond inhalation and 
exhalation), the practitioner will discover in a very short time the 
miracle of mindfulness and the power of introspection.   In this way, 
he becomes ever more aware of the Life Force (PRANA) that sustains his 
life, starts to control it and can even expand his consciousness toward 
the Great Cosmic Force that is KALI.


KALI YUGA, the Age of Destruction

     The successful worship of KALI is strongly recommended to all those 
who aspire to spiritual knowledge.  Up to the YOGA division of The Ages of
Civilization, we already are now in KALI YUGA, the Age of Dissolution, of
the prevalence of anti-divine forces, when the spirituality of Mankind's
origins has been almost wholly lost.  We are now at the Threshold of the
Cyclic Cosmic Dissolution (PRALAYA), which is brought by KALI -- The Power
of Time.  In such circumstances, the only valid spiritual path, in TANTRA 
vision, is the complete communion with KALI.  In this way, the benevolent 
Goddess becomes our absolute and omnipotent protector and will help us to make
successfully our way in this tormenting chaos that surrounds us and which
every day becomes ever more alike the Cosmic Cemetery whose absolute
Mistress is KALI.

     Therefore it is obvious that only through Her can we hope to survive
the inevitable death and destruction.  More than that, the Goddess will
give to Her devoted admirer and constant worshipper  (WORSHIP = an active
outpuoring of spontaneous love and devotion effortlessly directed toward
its object) the supreme gifts of Strength, Knowledge and Wisdom to fulfill
the only valid Principle of Evolution in our Age:

        "TRANSFORM THE DEADLY POISON INTO HEAVENLY NECTAR"

   In other words, live fully in this hectic and ever more decaying world,
refuse nothing, but be mindful and use intelligently for inner spiritual
growth everything that life offers you.  In this way, the very things that 
for ordinary people bring death and destruction, for the Initiate will bring 
inner peace, effortless self-control, perfect health, mental clarity, 
happiness, spiritual enlightenment.

              "O, KALI, so very happy Cosmic Mother, Archgrandiose
          Everlasting Female Archetype, Supreme and Terrifying
          Power of the Transforming Time & Night of All-Including
          Eternity, Precious Goddess of endless Love, COME,
          MANIFEST and STAY inside and outside!  Grant me your 
	  endless grace, ‘cause I am your Child in Eternity"


DinuRoman@aol.com (Dinu Roman).

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