Bhadrakaalii (Part 2)

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Below are the nine surviving Bhadrakali dhyanas:

 

5. The twenty-two varnas adorn Her face

Glowing like the dark clouds at the end of time

Seated upon a corpse

With smiling face

She gives freedom from fear

Praised by Brahma and the other gods

She sings with melodious tone

Wondrous One

Effulgent with the syllable "krim"

I meditate upon the Goddess

Within the mandala of the sun.

I praise Bhadrakali

With the seed mantra "bhaim."

 

10. She loves to reside

In the mandala of the rising sun

With a face full as the forest lotus

Dark-hued One

With gait graceful as a young swan

Breasts high, rounded and mature

Wearing a garland of lotus blossoms

Book in hand

Clad in yellow garments

Standing upon a corpse

She constantly visits

The sacrificial space.

I praise Bhadrakali

With the seed mantra "bhaim."

 

41. She shines like fiery lightning

Glows like heated gold

Gleams like the luster of dawn

She chants with melodious voice

With shining fangs

And lips of copper hue

Her hennaed locks of hair

Tremble in their high heavy pile

Shining with the rising half moon

Ropelike serpents wrapped around Her

Adored by the great siddha, Asura and Surendra.

I adore Bhadrakali with the seed mantra "bhaim."

 

45. Praised by Brahma, Madhava, Sharva, Indra

Hailed by the three worlds

With laughing face

Intoxicated by drinking wine and blood

She dances with delight

Once again She drinks wine --

Reveling in the musical sound of Her veena

She sings joyously --

Once again She drinks wine.

I meditate upon Bhadrakali

With the seed mantra "bhaim."

 

47. In Her lotuslike hand She holds

The severed head of the creator of the world

She smiles and sounds satisfied

She devours the mover of the entire universe

Like limp darbha grass

She holds the bodies of

Eternally dark Vishnu and Shiva

I meditate upon Bhadrakali

Glowing like new clouds

Standing upon a corpse.

 

56. Devi adorned with five nagas

Together with Tripura She laughs

Auspicious, youthful, dark-faced

With the moon as Her crown

With pleasure She drinks wine

Her feet are adorned by the three-eyed one

Glowing like the sun

Wearing the crescent moon

Adorned with the twenty-two letters

Standing upon a corpse.

Praise Bhadrakali with the seed syllable "bhaim."

 

57. In Her hands a flute

And two full-blown lotuses

She drinks wine

Seated upon a corpse

With the crescent moon adorning Her crown

Accompanied by companions.

In my heart I meditate upon Bhadrakali

With the seed mantra "bhaim."

 

69. Equal to a thousand rays of the rising sun

Accompanied by three shining Kalis

Worshiped by two bundles of kusha grass

She is everything.

Her feet are worshiped by both Bhairavas

Accompanied by Bhima and Vahni-priya

She banishes fear

Invoked by a Jhankara

Adorned with the twenty-two letters

I adore goddess Bhadrakali with the seed mantra "bhaim."

 

70. The crescent moon adorns Her crest

Dark-bodied One

Radiant with the letter "krim"

Of dusky face

And ... letters

Lips red as blood

Known mentally by only the seed syllable "bhaim."

Standing upon a corpse

Lustrous in blue garments

Adorned with the mantra "svaha"

With limbs like slender creepers

I adore Bhadrakali

With the seed mantra "bhaim."

 

Hope that helps, Aravind!

 

Aum Bhadrakaliye Namahe!

 

Aum Maatangyai Namahe

[Guest guest]

Jai Kali Ma!!!

 

Thank you so much! I really appreciate your precision

in talking about the source. Mostly I aspire to be a

simple lover of our Mother, but I also have this

little part of me that continues to be influenced by

notions of western scholarship.

 

There is so much to meditate on in these dhyaana

verses. "She is everything."

 

Again, thank you so much.

 

Jai Kali Ma

--Aravind

 

 

 

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