The Hindu Goddess Kali Ma-Durga
Dancing through Fear
Kali is a trinity Goddess. She is The Hindu triple Goddess of creation, preservation and destruction and she is the archetypal image of the birth and death Mother. Kali is Mother to her devotees not because she protects them from the way things really are but because she reveals to them their mortality and thus releases them to act fully and freely. Accordingly, she is recognized as the giver and taker of all life.
Kali represents our greatest nightmares because she stands for and personifies everything that terrifies us. Within this terror lies clarity and truth, and this is the gift offered by Kali. Once faced, Kali dissipates fear and becomes the ultimate loving and protecting mother, granting realization of truth and liberation.
In order to actualize full potential as a human being, Kali teaches that we must finally accept the dark dimension of existence. This leads to freedom, the freedom won only after confrontation or acceptance of death. To ignore death, to pretend that one is physically immortal, or that one’s ego is the center of things, is to be bound to illusion. On the contrary, to confront or accept death and one’s mortality is to be able to let go
For me, Kali signifies the death of ego and the path of self-acceptance. She is the reminder that all will be destroyed…
