Re:To Nanda on "Smashanakalika Kali" and the looooooong name for Kali

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Nanda wrote:

I always feel a thrill through my body when I hear the opening bars of

"Smashanakalika Kaaaliiiiiiiiiii" ... Very haunting and otherworldly.

Well , Maa's voice is always beautiful, but there is something about

Kali that makes the chant very moving....3) Some of the names are not

quite so easy on the tongue. Maa Kali has some names that are 16

syllables long . I think the really long ones start towards the end

- like name 790yavaayaakasinduuraraktacandanaruupadhrkyikes, I went,

how am I gonna get THAT name? Then when I looked at the meaning of

the name that Swamiji has so kindly provided, I could identify and

break it into more identifiable terms.rakta - means redcandana -

means sandalsinduur- red vermillion (remember we offer this to the

deity during puja as well)ruupa - means formyavaayaa- is a derivative

of "yauvan" which means youthful.So lo and behold , the name can then

be broken out asyavaayaa-vaka-sinduura-rakta-candana-ruupa-dhrk

Dear Nanda ~ is there a CD with Maa singing the song you mention? Also

in the Kali Puja book, which has the 1008 names (yes?), does Swamiji

break the names down in the way you showed above? I LOVE it when he

does that. It makes comprehension of the word so much more vivid and

accessible. Even though I didn't have the Kali puja book, I will

certainly have to get it now. I figure, in a couple of years, if I

get one book a month, I'll have all the books at the right time to do

the sankalpas. : ) Blessings ~ Linda