Goddess Kali

[Guest guest]

-

Kalika Putra

Sunday, November 10, 2002 1:02 AM

Re: Goddess Kali

 

 

 

You are mentioning Shamshana Kalika, there are multiple forms of Kali ten Primal

ones which have totally different meaning, devi Kali comes from atharvaveda and

rgveda as well.

>Actually it was authored by someone else. I think the author was trying to

say that the Devi makes her first appearance in a narrative or story form in the

Devi Mahatmya, which from the Vedic side of Hinduism comes from the Markandeya

Purana. I would be interested to see the verses of the rkveda concerning Kali.

 

Devi Kali also comes from the Parasha Tantra and Bhairava tantra both predating

the Devi Mahatmaya, Kali puja and the tantra of Kali relates mostly to kaula

which is the oldest tantric sect known to man.

>You are close. The oldest of the Trika is the Krama school, of which Kali

is the predominant mode of worship, which is the only one of the three 'schools'

of Trika or Kashmir Shaivism to worship the Supreme in feminine form. The Krama

worships the 12, not 10 forms of Kali in Her four modes each of objectivity,

knowledge, and subjectivity. Krama is almost extinct except to a few of us who

hold it to our bosom.

 

Guru Om

Markandeya