BhavAninAmasahasrastutih [629] CAmunda [Yogini Chamunda]

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CAmundA : The terrific forms of Durga.

 

Durga is the personification of the totality of the powers of the

gods. She herself becom KAli, the fierce black goddess emerging from

the Devi's forehead, and killed Canda and Munda in the battle against

Sumbha and Nisumbha. Thus she won the name CAmundA for herself. She

sometimes included in the Saptamatrikas. Later she destroyed Raktabija

with special efforts. To kill the chief demons became easyafterwards.

 

Esoterically, CAmundA is the force of concentratied awareness, the

power of special awakening in the heart, that devours the ceaseless

activity of the immature mind and uplifts it to the highest level.

The asura Raktabija is actually the mind, each wave of which gives

rise to other waves. Killing of Raktabija by CAmundA means the

destruction of SamskAras by awakening spiritual consciousness.