Ramakrishna's Vision of Kali Kali and the Gunas ?

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This is namarupa explosion. Mystic madness

After this stage comes transcending the namarupa.

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> "...Kali is hte pivot, the soverieng Mistress. She is Prakriti

[substance",

> the Procreatrix, Nature, the Destroyer, the Creator. Nay, she is

something

> greater and deeper still for thsoe who have eyes to see. She is the

Universal

> Mother, "my Mother," as Ramakrishna would say, the All-Powerful, who

reveals

> Herself to Her children under different aspects and Divine

Incarnations, the

> Visible God, who leads the elect to the Invisible Reality; and if it

so please

> Her, She takes away the last trace of ego from created beings and

merges it in

> the consciousness of the Absolute, the undifferentiated God.

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> "To the ignorant She is, to be sure, the image of destructions; but

> found in Her the benign, all-loving Mother, Her neck

is encircled with a

> garland of heads, and Her waist with a girdle of human arms, and two

of Her

> hands hold weapons of death, and Her eyes dart a glance of fire,

but, strangely

> enough, Ramakrishna felt in her breath the soothing touch of tender

love and

> saw in Her the Seed of Immortality. She stands on the bosom of Her

Consort

> Shive; it is becasue she is the Shakti, the Power, inseparable from

the Absolute.

> She is surrounded by jackals and other unholy creatures, the

denizens of the

> cremation ground. But is not the Ultimate reality above holiness and

> unholiness? She appears to be reeling under the spell of wine. But

who would create

> this mad world unless under the influence of a divine drunkenness. She

> (Kali) is the highest symbols of all the forces of nature, the

sythesis of their

> antnomies, the Ultimate Divine in the form of woman."

> The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, pp. 9-10, 12-13

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