SIGNS OF SINGAPORE #2 - the bleeding obvious.NAARDEN, NETHERLANDS - a star fort in a star location.Om Tat Sat.Īmsterdam Architecture Art Black Sea Budget travel Cycle touring Cycling England France Germany Hiking Himalayas Holland India Indonesia Ireland Italy Literary history New Zealand Singapore Spain Sport Theatre Travel Travel-Australia Travel- Europe travel photography Uncategorized USA Writing Have an open mind and an open Heart, your own Istha Devatha will guide to that Ultimate Realisation. Hinduism is an big great Ocean…every path is like a river that in the end merge in the Ocean and loses its identity. Shouldn’t You be more mother like? OMG…What an answer She gave…it’s mindblowing even to think now, yet it made perfect sense in every sense of the word. I said, “Mother, how am I to call you a Mother…when your very Form is more like a devil with fangs and lolling tongue?. She is misunderstood and misinterpreted by many…but She only reveals Herself to those who approach Her like a child…And She answers, each and every question regardless how stupid it may be, because She is the Universal Mother, the very embodiment of Love and Mercy…just to enlighten you, I will tell one of the many silly question that I ask Her. But yet it wasn’t easy for me to accept Her that easily, it took nearly 6-8 years of dreams and visions to finally say, “Mother, I surrender to Thy Lotus Feet, you are my All”. There were lots and lots of questions in regards who is Supreme…instead of talking about it.She showed me…this was twenty five years ago…Ultimately, She removed the fanaticism that was so prevalent in my being and fill it with understanding that…”All is One”, and She showed me the whole hierarchy of every gods and goddesses and said in English, “I AM ALL”. Yet out of Her Mercy and Compassion, She started “educating” in dreams…in vision…all these were happening while I was still very strong in my Christian beliefs. I used to curse Her, call Her all sorts of names…saying that She is surely the Devil…all because I came from a Catholic Christian background and going to all sorts of fanatical Christian seminars, that only deepens my dislike for Her. You may think that this is surely must be coming from a devotee who blinded by his bias love for Her. Goddess Kali is an Enigma that have to experienced with ones Heart and Soul…to know, to understand and realise Her by Her own Grace and Mercy. Please lead me straight to Her feet.īest wishes on your future travels, Richard. If the gods take notice of this comment, please, please don’t keep me away from Her. I thank Her for that, because frankly, I need to have my treasured limitations ferociously ripped away sometimes or I would go on and on forever, without a clue about who I am or what life is really all about. Kali, Shiva, Ganesha – all of the different names for this One Reality – these forms are worshipped so that we can come (from many directions) to realize that we are each intimately connected with everyone and everything. Together, they form this whole Reality: you and me, these screens we’re gazing into, the ground beneath us, the very air we breathe.
She is His own creative power and He is Her own feeling-consciousness. You may not like Her feet on Him, but you can observe the look of supreme contentment on His face as She towers over Him with Her lotus feet upon His heart. I’m only beginning to get to know Her (lots of layers to slough off!).įor myself, when I feel as shocked and uncomfortable as you seem to feel about Kali, I take that as a sign that I should look deeper into whatever is offending me and ask myself: what is that I’m reacting to here? If you do so, you’ll perhaps begin to learn that this entrail-eating mad blood-thirsty goddess of destruction is also revered as the sweetest, most tender Mother, every moment compassionately providing for all of Her children exactly what they need.
She is the power of Reality that takes away whatever we do not need, like a snake shedding its old skin. The heads you see in Kali’s hand and around Her neck are the heads of demons (our own ignorance) she has slaughtered, not “people who have offended Her.” Kali’s brutality is the fierce and unrelenting clarity that cuts through our limitations and the attachments that are keeping us from waking up. I found your post while looking for Kali Ma.Įchoing Supriyo’s comment from a couple weeks ago, I’d like to share my interpretation of Kali with you, or in other words, hijack your comment section for a moment. Richard, thank you for the beautiful photos.