Guest guest Posted October 29, 2005 Report Share Posted October 29, 2005 , Kali Kali <kaliananda_saraswati> wrote: > > "Here is an extract from Sister Nivedita's Kali the Mother. Hope you like it" Jai Kali Maa, dear Kalia! This little book, "Kali the Mother" by sister Nivedita has been one of my favorites for close to 30 years! i have often recommended it to people over the years. i was thrilled to see you post this wonderful excerpt from this little jewel of a book! Thank-you so much for posting this, dear Kalia! May Maa always light Your Path with Her Love! Jai Kali Shree Maa! Jai Shiva Swamiji! Jai Thakur Ramakrishna Deva! muktimaa > > > In the West, art and poetry have exhausted to associate all that is tender and precious with this thought of woman-worship. The mother plays with the little One, or caresses or nurses Him. Sometimes she even makes her arm a throne, whereon He sits to bless the world. > > In the East, the accepted symbol is of a woman nude, with flowing. hair, so dark a blue that she seems in colour to be black, four- handed-two hands in the act of blessing, and two holding a knife and bleeding head respectively, garlanded with skulls, and dancing, with protruding tongue, on the prostrate figure of a man all white with ashes. > > A terrible, an extraordinary figure! Those who call it horrible may well be forgiven. They pass only through the outer court of the temple. They are not arrived where the Mother's voice can reach them. This, in its own way, is well. > > Yet, this image, so fearful to the Western mind, is perhaps dearer than any other to the heart of India. It is not, indeed, the only form in which the Divine Energy presents Herself to Her worshippers. To the Sikh, She is absorbed, embodied in his sword; all women, especially as children, are Her incarnations; glorious Sita carries the great reality to many. > > But Kali comes closer to us than these. Others we admire; others we love; to Her we belong. Whether we know it or not, we are Her children, playing round Her knees. Life is but a game of hide-and- seek with Her" and if, in its course, we chance to touch Her feet, who can measure the shock of the divine energy that enters into us? Who can utter the rapture of our cry of "Mother? > > > > Victory to Mother. > > > > > > > FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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