JayaramV
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| | 04/26/10 at 04:21 PM | Reply with quote | #1 |
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Hi, I have a query. Is the Goddess Kali, the goddess of destruction, a part of nature or outside it? From what I understand, since she is the destroyer of the world, she has to be outside and seperate from the universe as we know it, to perform such action. Please correct if I am wrong. Thankyou, Sameer.
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JayaramV
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| | 04/26/10 at 04:22 PM | Reply with quote | #2 |
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The very nature of Nature is transformation, change, impermanence and continuity through diversity. Some parts of you, or aspects of you are always subject to change, transformation,death, decay and regeneration. Are they not part of you? Do live in them or outside of them? Every transformation involves some destructive process. If you want to become a different person you have to destroy old habits of thinking and behavior. If you want to transform yourself into an enlightened person, you need to destroy the animal nature in you. Kali rides the tiger, the symbol of anger and cruelty and kills the buffalo, the symbol of lust, ignorance, habit, impulse and animal nature. If you pray to her and seek her assistance, she will destroy your lower nature and transform you into a sattvic person so that the light of the soul can shine through your mind and body.
The Hindu cosmology is essentially a magnification of the human personality, with soul or God as the center and matter or energy or Nature as the periphery. If your soul or self is God, your body is Nature. Their various aspects and energies are the entitles we recognize in the macrocosm as gods or divinities. In other words Hinduism recognizes the personality (purusha) as the template, which manifests differently in different planes according to circumstances and requirements of creation. Kali is the material universe. In this gigantic universe, stars are created and destroyed every minute. New planets melt in the heat of exploding stars, while new star clusters arise from the heating nebulae. All this happens inside Kali, the material universe, the mother Goddess, the source of all matter and energy.
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