When I was a little child and got scared of dark places or my imaginary ghosts, demons etc., My mother would show me Goddess Kali and tell me to take her name and remember her and she would take care of the demons. It was really helpful.
@@deaded7088 An Atheist is a idea that you do not believe in any religion or God but it dosen't mean that you cannot do the religion pratices as it can help some people find peace of mind even if they do not believe in that God
@@deaded7088 Being an atheist doesn't mean mantras are not useful. Mantras encode positive vibrations. Also, in Hinduism, the ultimately reality is called the universal consciousness unlike the concept of God in other traditions. And many atheists who don't believe God might feel that the universe is a living macrocosm rather than a random permutation of cosmic processes.
That's questionable. Not trying to offend anyone but that Kaali looks more like a vicious black blood-thirsty demon/witch with many hands holding weapons and severed heads.. Any normal person would faint to death if they suddenly encounters someone terrifying like that in real life... Idk why anyone would think her as a protective motherly goddess ? She's much different than what you hear normally about glorious angelic beings full of light.
A mother protecting her children 🙏 In nature male animals get aggressive when their territory is threatened but female animals? They get aggressive to protect their offspring, that is what Kali is.
OH Hindus in the world ! Lets analysis Hinduisim with Haqal and MANTAQ,, Not with our faith ,because we born in it,,,, how earth that will be possible to see a team of men with Ten heads to be taht intellegent to be our creator? How on earth a team of men with Eleven heads can even think stright ? This team of men with Ten heads were only seen 5000 years ,,but can not be seen now?
@@mohamadfazli5575 they have been seen to mirabai,ahilyabai,adishankaracharya,etc,but aalah isnt seen till now....i can too raise this illogical question on u,so just plz stop being a stupid
@@Aman-td9nl if you begin to Think With Haqal and MANTAQ you would haven't believe to be a human with ten heads and Eleven arms and still can think straight !!!
I remember growing up in a fairly abusive home, Dad was an alcoholic and very violent, tried to drown me, pushed my brother and I in front of a train, very violent towards my mother, brother and I. Mum was Hindu but Dad was Catholic, but as things got desperate and stuff like Child Protective services were useless; Mum started turning to religion, seemed like her only option, she even sat us down and said "I'm going to invoke Kali, because I want you two to be safe" she showed us a painting of Kali, said that she looks scary but she's not a monster, she deals with monsters. Probably the goriest image I remember seeing as a child was the garland of severed heads but Mum explained they're all the severed heads of criminals and murderers and bad people. And one day, almost directly after we finished doing the prayer to ask for Kali's protection; Dad was coming home all drunk, ready to beat us when he suddenly stopped frozen, got in the car and left. It was extremely out of character, We were all shocked. It wasn't until later when Mum was seeing a psychic and the psychic kind of got a fright from seeing her, she immediately asked "did you invoke Kali?" Mum asked "how did you know?" She then said "She's standing right behind you". Her psychic then recommended that for most cases; if you want protection, it's more wise to invoke Durga for most cases, Kali is great for emergencies when you have no other option; but she can be brutal, walks a fine line. So I thank Kali for everything she's done to protect us, although I hope that the circumstances that caused us to pray to her to begin with don't arise.
What your mom probably did was tantra vidya which is prohibited because it's tamasic in nature. Tell your mom to never use it again or next time she may invite someone or something that she may not be able to handle.
What truthfully took place is either your mother had enough deep contemplation and detailed thought to go along with desire and reason which also went along with a fundamental of reality which is life it sounds like she had and all the proper ingredients for creating her own Hitman for lack of a better term. See you can make an entity that is capable of thought incapable of figuring out different situations that you personally are unaware of and you can make this entity to protect or to destroy but not many people can make one. But it's very possible if you know how but it was not the original Cali you hear of although the original Kali I'm sure it's still out there somewhere but was created the same way that I just told you your mother's was created because mankind created all the gods that's what the fall is we don't realize what we are we think a God is higher than us when the truth is we're the thing that makes gods because we are a little seed of the all creator on our journey to grow into having our own reality therefore kind of like a baby learning how to walk we kind of learn how to do things that we will be able to easily do in the next life. However I wouldn't pursue trying to make one because they don't have emotions like you and I do if there's a job to do they do it without thinking very animalistic so if somebody you don't want to get hurt gets in the way they will get hurt without you realizing it so best be careful and because it was created for you is all you have to do is call upon it in whichever way the marker was set up for that to be so be careful and even passive thought on the matter
Good story. Even I, a not-knowing, unwise western tourist had the good fortune of saying hello to Durga and ask her to protect both me and India from whatever demons I might carry around, when I first visisted India. Now, only slightly less not-knowing and unwise, I thank ganesh fo not letting me stumple into a temple for Kali upon that fateful day of breaking my India-traveller virginity. Kali would have belched a burp of fire, ripped the demons from my soul and then went straight to Denmark, where I live, and sought out their roots to rip them out as well, then backtracking my journey to eradicate all evidense of their existence right up till the point of me Stepping inside her temple. ..As it is, my life-itinerary hopefully will bring me to Calcutta sometime in 2028-2030. Then I will do puja to her there, and give thanks for her stilling her hand over us for that long (a lot can happen geo-politically in those ten years from now to then, and it *do* look sort of grim to anyone hoping to travel a peaceful and friendly world.) But with luck, some Bhudda-shine lightening up influencial minds and by virtue of a life devoted to a truthfull experience - there will be water.
This is such a fascinating story. reminds me of when I was around 7 years old and my brother was 2. We were playing outside, hide and seek in the evening and my brother was found hiding in a corner. only he wasn't hiding. He convulsing and frothing at the mouth. I called my dad and we immediately rushed him to a hospital. I remember my brother screaming but it didn't sound human. more like a squeal. like and animal in pain. It took 5 adults to restrain him and multiple attempts to sedate him before he calmed down. They had no idea what happened and the doctors discharged him. We knew he was not okay. For the next few days he wasn't my brother. He wasn't there. hard to explain but my mother started being scratched and grabbed at night. my brother was getting worse. looking more drained every day. eventually my parents went to see our Guru. to this day I don't know what was discussed exactly but I know we did a prayer invoking Kali and had to give a sacrifice. I was terrified. I thought Kali looked so scary. I thought she was the monster making brother sick but my dad explained something very bad was affecting my baby brother and Kali was going to fight it. He explained that Kali is a mother and loves her children. she would not harm a small child. she protects us. immediately after the prayer my brother was his normal self. to this day we worship Kali in our house. I think if it wasn't for her my brother would have died.
She is a very misunderstood goddess. In the west a lot of people view her sa evil, but when you understand what she stands for, you learn to respect her.
You know alot of atheist say thay our God is imoral because of nit picking some scriptures. But it is very obvious to all that your gods( demons in discise ) are very fucked up. If i slaughter a bunch of thieves monstrously dose that make me imoral or justified. I think we all know the answer.
@@7kevin11rodriguezcorrea4 You don't have the right to criticize someone else's God as "fucked up and immoral" when you adhere to a God committing genocide, including the killing of babies and your own children, and condoning of rape and cannibalism, and you seem to be aware of this too, Kali is a demon slayer, demons cannot be compared to thieves
My favourite maa kali story is the one where she goes to battle and her rage almost destroys the world but lord Shiva comes in the form of a child and her maternal instincts calm her down. To me she is all women. Jai maa kali
@@goofybutserious4807 oh, look! A cringe 11 year old who thinks he's so *eDgY* and *SaVaG* saying absolute batshit things about others and masking them with "heheheh"
Shiva did calm her down when she went on a rampage killing everyone who came in her path. She destroyed the demons but was so outraged that she went on massacring even the good side. Shiva lied down at her feet and as she stepped on him, she realised in shock that it was Lord Shiva, her husband she had stepped on and was about to kill. That brought her back to her senses and she converted back to Parvati, her calm, mellow version.
@@smiles9599 stop your bullshit steretype thing kali is not only bengali's god but also hindu's god every state people worship her biharis,upwalas,marathis,tamils etc. Even there are many aghori tantriks in in UP they do black magic lol😂😂
@@kathakalidas1937 True idk what white people call their black magic probably they take matters into their own hands and call it karma and then there is Voodoo which seems more dark.
@Jerry smith you should focus more on Vedas and upanisads for spirituality . These gods and godess are from puranic tradition . I advice read staryarth prakash and rig ved bhasya of maharaishi Dayanada saraswati so that it will help you to get a hint on Vedas . These local traditions like vasihnavism,shavism,shaktism etc have diverted from the Vedic path . Lastly do read the biased translation of Vedas by Marxist and Islamist cause their you'll find all short of nonsense.
LAXMINARAYAN SAHOO Why are you confusing a person who wants to build a relationship with Kali Maa. Hinduism's very strength is the many options given to a seeker depending on his emotional state and his intellectual level. The vedas tho highly respected is not the only scriptures available. There are principle upanishads, puranas, agamas and some even take the path of tantra. There is no such thing as only this scripture is correct. Even Bhagavadgita is accepted as an authoritative scripture by many. Hindu scholars and philosophers constantly discuss both the nirguna and saguna espects of Brahman. Nirguna to describe brahman in an atributeless form and saguna to describe brahman with qualities and atributes. Both are used to describe the Parabrahman or absolute reality in its transcendent and immanent nature and as such involves neither negation nor inclusion. A person has the freedom to choose any form that resonates with his inner self as his Ishta Devata and begin his or her path in spirituality. Hinduism is unlike abrahamic traditions that basically have a 1 size fits all scripture. Great Maha purushas like Ramakrishna Paramahansa worshiped at the lotus feet of Kali Maa to reach the highest levels of spiritual realisation. And he gave us Swami Vivekananda who took Hinduism to the larger world. I believe yr intention was good, but please be careful with what you advice people.
Its so fascinating to me that in hinduism the god of power (shakti) is a goddess,a woman and she is mother of god of war,Kartikeya and warriors used to pray to Goddess Durga/Kali/Shakti to give them power....seems to me hinduism indicates that women are more powerful then men and they should be respected as well
Not really. The trimurti, which is the cosmic trio that controls the universe itself and is solely responsible for its birth, its functioning and its destruction, leading to rebirth and restarting of the cycle, are all represented as being masculine. They are the deities that are responsible for the world as it is. Nothing is stronger than brahman (not brahma). Kalis stroy doesn't really show the dominance of women over men, it shows dominance of rage and violence and temper over human minds, and the struggle between a human and his/her emotions of anger and wrath. The genders these deities are given is only a means to personify them, to make their interactions seem more human. The personification is just an element of storytelling, what these men and women in Hindu legends represent is not the genders they are presented as, but the emotions these deities represent. Kali represents anger and destruction of evil, which are both formless and gender less. Similarly the trimurti represents birthing, living and destruction, which are formless and gender less as well. Take these deities as you will, either as the formless human emotion they represent or their personification, which is only a shell given to them, but Hinduism never dictates that men are inferior to women. In all these legends, if you wish to take them in their face values as their personifications, all the goddesses that are the wives of all the gods call their husbands "prabhu", literally translating to my lord or God. Their wives are shown to go to extreme lengths to care for them, calm them down, to pray to and worship them, and love them. The husbands do the same. If anything, these legends dictate the importance of both women and men in different domains, none more important than the other.
I find great symbolic meanings and great lessons from every Hindu God and Goddess... Such a beauty and freedom of thought I never get from other religions...
She is not ever a soul devouring Evil Goddess... She Kills the Demons of Sinfullness.Anger. Hatred.Addiction. She Never Hurts Lord Shiva. It Means She is Poweful Enough to Even rise over God . She is manifested from Durga yes.
Saffiyeh Jaffer And she’s the destroyer of the ego. The devas and devis are attributes, functions, manifestations, and forms of God, the Supreme reality, Brahman
Sol i ....yes Well said. " Destroyer of Ego...i.e. Addiction.anger.lust.greed. etc.).... This actually should be more clarified. Ma Kali & SadaShiva both are my Istadeveta🙏🙏
Ah, this is an interesting point! Given what I've observed in her symbolic ties to Saturn, and the evidence of my personal observations, I can see the connection.
🌸 Durga Mata (depicted with tiger or lion) and Kali (depicted with skulls etc) are both consorts of Shiva Shiva’s first wife was Sati then reincarnated as Parvati. She in turn had different manifested forms or Shakti, such as Durga who I turn can bring forth Kali from her forehead, only during violent rage. Kali translates as the black one, due to her skin. They are all same, Durga just creates a different identity or form to eliminate demons, it was during a battle she created this powerful side to herself. One in particular demon Raktabija was able to spawn new demons or replicas of himself via every drop of blood shed. By drinking all his blood he couldn’t clone himself and was then defeated.
To my knowledge I was thought that Ma Jagadumba was created from the combined powers of Brahma, Vishnu , Lakshmi , Shiva and Ma Parvati. Thus Ma Jagadumba was born when she realise that the demon mahishasur could not die she transformed to Kali ma and depose of him . I believe in this theory because in the Maha Kali imagine she has the chakra weapon of Lord Vishnu in one of her arms.
I loved her in High School which my Hindu friends in college were shocked I knew who she was and that I loved her. I never feared her but I knew never to cross her.
THOSE MANIFESTATIONS ARE THE DEVIL SATAN HIMSELF. THIS IS WHERE ALL THE HINDU GREEK AND ROMAN god's CAME FROM. THEY ARE THE DEVIL SATAN AND THE 1/3 FALLEN LEGIONS OF ANGELS MANIFESTING THEMSELVES IN THE FLESH WHO FELL FROM HEAVEN. THE BIBLE IS THE ONLY INSPIRED WORD OF GOD GET YOURSELF ONE.
Shiva is not the one needs to be calmed down. He’s the god of death/consciousness/space; he directs kali’s wild energy. Kali is the goddess of nature/time/wrath/birth. The image of kali is how every married man thinks of his wife.
Shiva is just calm. Shiva's short is Shva which means dead body, Shiva has to be awaken by Shakti, i.e. Mother form. Without the Shakti, there would be no Shiva, no creation, nothing.
@Rafi Boss you are born of worst karma. Krishna only send those to hell who insult others faith without any reason and you are surely ending up like that. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
She drank the Blood of the Thieves just as she drank the Blood of the Demon whose blood spawns copies of himself. This act of drinking their Blood was to show that She would make sure that NO ONE who slays the Innocent against their Will shall be permitted to exist in any iota. It also symbolizes that these Thieves are avatars of that same Ractabesha (sp?).
What you mentioned, it kind of makes sense in a way. There are parts of the world where fire is used as an aide to help new trees grow, whether it is man - made or natural. There is a tribe of Native Americans who know how to do this.
@@labelledamedumanor4876 A great example. In Africa, seasonal fires, which are caused by lightning, burn the grasses and are needed by many plants to stimulate their propagation. In a dualistic way, fire destroys, but also gives life, like the sun. Another awesome example of the endless spiraling process of Creation-Destruction-Creation is that over earths' history - around 4 billion years - there have been at least six large meteor strikes of incredible magnitude which have resulted in near extinction events. Yet life always finds a way to peek through the cracks and start again, to flourish, and inevitably reach another deathly rebirth or transformation. It's awesome and amazing, just like the Goddess :)
Kali is goddess shakti or prakiti. Her destruction mean s the the destruction of nature. Her violent form represents that nature can be also violent. But this nature is the whole universe she is great creative energy. She always protects her children every living animals are her child.
She has a lot in common with the Hawaiian goddess Péle there. She considers every living thing in Hawaii as her children, the animals, plants, birds, fish, you name it.
@Susam Karmakar Thank you for being so kind in caring. I really appreciate that. 😊 I just really love the duality n strength that great Goddess Kali represents. To me she is what feminist aspire to be. Most women strive to be Queens or Princesses, not I. I alwayz am a Goddess. I'm not a Queen who sits beneath a man and waits for him to give me orders. Nor am I a Princess being ordered around by other people being married off to another without my consent. I am a powerful, wise and mighty Goddess who looks down on and protects all.
🌟 MORNING STAR⭐️ only he can destroy it by doing the inner work and facing his shadow . Kali is an aspect of ourselves which is the soul =god , and she can give him all the tools ect but she can’t do it for him he needs to do it himself
If indeed you had a dream about a dark widow goddess associated with saturn, then it has to be the tantric goddess Dhumavati, also called Dhumrakali or Dhumravarahi. She is a tantric goddess, one of the Mahavidyas or ten modes of knowledge. Her name means one with a smoke like form. She is a ferocious goddess, one of her kind and people usually don't dare worship her since she embodies primordial energy sans the male principle. Which means she is the power of dissolution or Pralaya. Usually energy or Shakti is with the male Principle which makes her auspicious. But Dhumavati is perhaps the only great goddess described as a widow. She is associated with planet saturn and is said to be the presiding goddess of saturn but some accounts also connect her with the south node. She has the crow for a symbol and is old and having a voracious appetite. She swallows or draws into herself every manifest thing thus making them disappear into the womb of time. It is said that she even swallowed her spouse thus leaving her alone at the time of dissolution. Kali is never described as a widow. She is the spouse of Shiva, the eternal one.
@@danthumu2211 Satan is a construct of Abrahamic religions to demonize other religions. But heretical Christian sects have identified your jealous God, the creator himself as the real Satan. Ever heard of YALTABAOTH. That is the Abrahamic Creator God described by gnostics and heretical Christians. Lutherans call Catholics, Jews and other protestants as Satanists and vice versa But we are not obsessed with evil. And if your intelligence doesnt permit you to understand the language of symbolism that is your problem. Because you people are trained only to see the obvious and are incapable of understanding the language of symbolism and its nuances. In Hindu mythology the head is called Uttamanga or seat of ego. Severed head doesn't represent murder for us. It represents destruction of ego. Why else is there a term loss of face for humiliation? Does it imply actual lose of face? If you are devoted Christian please keep away from the mythologies of other cultures. It will save you from confusion.
She's the REAL STUFF. She has been pushed to the brink, she turned her head into the inevitable. Underneath it all, she protects us because she is the universal mother and LOVE.
It could never be that Kali sometimes has to correct Shiva... He is not perfect.. The remorse is not that she is out of control just that she has in her to correct the god head and vice versa... When she is out of control it is the love and compassion of Shiva that brings her back....she is only doing what is asked of her.. You must go full force...
RelangaceDE Da'wa . This is a stupid argument when u say my god is just imagination, your god is the true God. Why cant it be the other way around?? My god is the true god and yr god is just a figmentation of yr imagination. Sometimes i wonder how stupid u prople can get. U might as well say my mother is better than yr mother.
RelangaceDE Da'wa . To say that hinduism derives from pre - indo - godheads is argumentative. So lets not get into that for now. You say in cultures around the world people believe in a sole creator deity. Hindu scriptures say there is one totally atributeless power beyond the comprehension of the human mind and the hindu rishis(sages) call this power "Brahman". But the hindu rishis also believed that since this Brahman is infinite, it could also be approached in an infinite number of ways. The concept of monotheism from the hindu viewpoint is normally left to the yogis and rishis at a higher level of spiritual understanding, the reason being if you are not spiritually evolved you will misinterprate this 1 god concept. This is what is basically happening to the abrahamic faiths. There is so much of conflict because they believe only their god is true and either they kill all disbelievers or try to save them from eternal damnation. Hinduism on the other hand allows polytheism. Here you are free to choose which ever god yr emotions and intellect resonates with and through that chosen path u first start to develope your mind. Only when yr mind is mature and developed enough do you now contemplate on the Brahman. In this way conflict is eradicated. Once the mind is ripe the realisation that all forms or paths eventually leads to 1 reality will come, so we are at peace with all religions and all paths. This is the reason there is no such thing as conversion in hinduism because we believe all paths are correct, should it be practised in the right way. The very framework of hinduism also allows for healthy sceptism, because only in such an environment can one begin to investigate the truth. The true purpose of spirituality is to lift the veil of illusion so that the very mystery of creation is revealed.
@@navilsiripala1037 Sadly, some people will never even try to understand that. Someone is always so quick to turn down polytheism, and only believe in a monotheistic faith, and try to hurt/ degrade anyone with a different perspective. And, I just can't stand it
Vitani B Mamba. The people who profess the abrahamic faiths will never accept this. It is left upto people like you and me to correct this perception. Dont get angry or lose faith. This is not a new argument. It has been there since religion came along. Wars have been fought over this, millions killed. But the good news is so many people all over the world are beginning to understand the concepts and beauty of hinduism. As the intelligence of man grows, he will reject anything that doesnt have a logical explanation to it. And in this respect ive not seen anything that even comes close to Sanathana Dharma - The eternal truth. Cheers and God bless Vitani.
@@veritasdeutsch6608 Lord Shiva is white because he is always in meditation and is a brahamchari so it's because of ojas Shakti on his body hes termed white not because of skin colour. He has bright radiance on his face that's y hes termed white.he is the guru of all yogis. Sri Krishna is blue in colour because he is the god of all yogis and has a perfect body. One who attains perfection in yoga and reaches the physical limit acquires a blue body. That's y he has a blue body. In reality they are supreme forces. But when they take Avatar they acquire these bodies. And they all are the manifestations of the supreme reality the par braham that is formless limitless ever-present omnipotent omniscient and that which the senses cant understand. That par braham manifests as Trinity. Vishnu, brahma and shiva Brahma is born from Vishnu..lord Shiva is just yogic form of lord Vishnu. But all three are one and manifestation of the supreme. Lord Vishnu then again manifests into three forms first is the maha Vishnu who takes Avatar as lord Rama or Sri Krishna. Second in every atom of this whole universe. And third in the heart of every being whether it's demon or dieties or creatures or humans etc. Lord Brahma is called the creator because he is the grandfather of all beings. He is the largest being of this material world. He is the creator of all dieties , humans, demons, etc etc and of all celestial beings. And lord Shiva ...shiva means the pious one or that which is not. He is the destroyer. He is responsible for destruction of the universe for recreation. He is also called Bholenath that means the innocent god because he gets pleased very easily. Anyone who prays to him whole heartedly he gets easily pleased and grants boon. There's no special arrangements needed for his Pooja. One can pray him in his heart and offer anything. His innocent nature is because he is always meditating on God. These are Trinity. They are neither masculine nor feminine. Now the energy of the supreme reality is the feminine form of god. Such as goddess Durga or goddess Mahakali. They are a necessity for creation. All the material bodies of this universe is shiva and energy by which these bodies work is Shakti or goddess Parvati. Mother Durga is the feminine form of the supreme. She gives fruits acc to actions. It is her energy due to which everyone lives in illusion. People think they are body now this is the illusion they are actually soul which is part of supreme. From here on purana ends and vedic philosophy starts. Purans are about celestial beeings and hiw all this universe works while Vedas are about earthy sciences and their use. Whatever is depicted in puranas and vedas are reality. They not only happened once but happens in human body and in each and every atom of the universe. I hope this helps.
A simple Kali mantra to invoke Her: Hreem Kleem Kleem A severe mantra for severe personal hurricanes: Aum Aieem Hreem Kleem Chamundayai Vicché Kali...a lover if you're mad, a mother if you're bad.
hello, i feel i am deeply connected to Kali and everytime i think of her i get goosebumps. i feel her power. it resonates with the anger within me, i feel like we have the same violent and mother tendencies. i want to devote myself to her. but i am a non-hindu. is this possible? how can i worship her
@@tozates You worship Her as She tells you to. Simple. I'm not a Hindoo either. She's the Goddess of those that don't belong in the polite society. om klīṁ krīṁ hūṁ kroṁ sphreṁ kāmakalākāli sphreṁ kroṁ hūṁ krīṁ klīṁ svāhā
@sibertooth You mean East India. Bengal. Western India is obsessed with Sri Mahalaxmi & Ganapati. Sure. Smashan Kali is mainstream. Sure. Smashan sadhana is mainstream. Sure. Vamachara is polite civil society. Aum Kali.
@@tozates Unlike Christianity and Islam, there is no concept of conversion in Hinduism aka Santan Dharma (eternal truth), you can just pray to her by chanting her mantras.
@@tozates Yes you can. Let me tell you about Shree Ramakrishna Paramhangsadev who was a devotee of Maa Kali. Maa Kali appeared before him in her calm form. Shree Ramakrishna Kathamrita (book written on the life of Shree Ramakrishna Dev) says that he used to feed Maa Kali with his own hands, he treated her like his own mother and for this the outside world often considered him as insane. But it was just his childlike simplicity and love for Maa Kali, that she had to appear before him. And Sri Ramakrishna Dev said, "Joto Mot, Toto Path" that translates into there are many ways and every way leads to the same divine. So, ofcourse you can worship Maa Kali. Just chant her mantras of Dakshina Kali, because every form of Maa Kali may not be suitable for everyone because of their connection with hardcore tantravidya.
Thugees were demonized by British through Atrocity Literature, Thugees were tribals who waged guerilla war against British in Central India and refused to give up on their forest land thus British used literature to demonize them and showing them of worshipping of dark powers or something who committed human sacrifice. And later on introduced the word 'Thug' which very commonly used in English now and in Indian languages 'Thug' whose meaning is a bit changed from English word and it means 'someone who is a cheat' in India. And this is the damage British did to the identity of a tribal group which didn't wanted to let its land go but who cares for truth cause in Colonial Era books its written that they performed Human Sacrifices but on other hand no one finds such mention in any Indian literature prior to that era.
Ushtavaiti . Absolutely spot on. So much of our history was systematically destroyed. What we have today is not even 10% of what was. And sad to say some indian politicians have worked hand in hand with these foreigners who all came to loot and control indians for their own agenda.
Kevin Aldrich. The answer is yes and no. Yes the british being predominently christian demonised everything they cud about the practises of the hindu religion. The "thugies" were specifically targeted because they fought against british rule. The thugies worshiped Kali Maa so the british demonised them as worshiping an evil goddess who demands blood. There was no such thing, Kali Maa never asked for this. Almost every freedom fighter worshiped the mother goddess in her form as a evil slayer like Kali Maa or Durga Maa or Chamunda Maa. The concept of sacrifies existed since civilisation existed. U can even see this in the old testment, in the Quran and so on. Meat eating people normally do this during a feast after which they partake in eating the meat. So some people do practise these kind of worship. There are those who justify this by saying the Mother drinks blood so it is ok to offer her this. But hindu scriptures are in poetic form that always has a story behind the story. There will be one story to the ignorant mind and another deeper message to the true seeker. There is a verse saying Kali Maa cut of the demon Raktabeeja's head and drank his blood without allowing his blood to touch the ground because it is believed that when a drop of his blood touched the ground another Raktabeeja wud arise. But when u analyse "Raktabeeja" further it means " the seed of desire". It has nothing to do with blood as per say but more of Desire. What it really means is one desire will lead to another and that to another. Uncontrolable desire is what keeps us trapped in this cycle of life and death. So Kali Maa says offer me this "Seed of desire" within you and i shall grant you moksha. Stories are told that she is ashamed for stepping her husband thats why her tongue is sticking out. That is a story for children. The true meaning is offer all yr desires and evil thoughts at my feet and I will grant you "Shivahood". (Shiva at her feet) Kali Maa is the Mother who takes a ferocious form to protect her loving children - us. The only "offering" she asks is our love, nothing else. A child is normally appeased by a toy, but when a child refuses all these "toys (earthly desires)" but only cries for its mother, then the "Mother" will come. Jai Kali Maa.
But the sources say the thuggies killed mostly Indian people and looted them.There were little or almost no killings of British officials. Thuggies are also said to be both hindus and muslims who worshipped Kali and mostly killed people by strangulation. If that's true then why so many common Indians were killed by them? And by the way, Kali was worshipped all over India at that time too, not only by thuggies.
You can say that as mentioned in the video her hair is open that represents she is not bounded by someone or something. Kali literally mean above time.
the only Queen that reminds me of of Kali when I checked out the history is Rani of Jhansi quite a skilled fighter and wise. Even one of the most skilled British General mentioned her in his book.
Mother goddess KALI is the protector of child from evil demon/shatan. In real life also a mother can't leave her son,when she feel her son is unsecure and try to engage with enemy for child. Jay maa kali..aao gorkhali(war cry of gorkha) is the fear heart sound for enemy..
True. Originally Kali or Parvati was a mountain goddess. She's the wife of Shiva and she lives with him in Kailasha ( which is the Nepal- Tibbet border in modern days)
That's why dark skin is auspicious and godly......it is the blue tone off the gods...as well as the door you enter to get into the best realm upon death
Just think the Trinity(three top Hindu God's) as different races.... Like Brahma is the white guy.... Vishnu is the brown one and Shiva is the black one....
@@bharath7528 oh common. Vishnu is blue skinned because of his divinity. Similarly Shiva is fair and bluish yet smeared with ashes to show his renouncement from worldly affairs.
@@pij6277 just think of it practically like all Hindu stories.... Our stories actually doesn't need to be taken literally... We should compare them to real life situations
Thugs weren't not evil. They were simply a tribe whose diety was the divine mother Kali. The British wanted to take over their territory and in the process committed a genocide of the Thug community. The British later produced several literature demonising the Thug to the extent that the word Thug itself was corrupted. Please get your facts right.
I'm studying this at the moment and the Thuggees' actions were not good. They used this mythology to kill over a million travellers and take their money. Therefore its good that the british abolished this practise; even members of the community denounced and looked down upon Thuggees.
British dehumanise the entire community to justify their genocide. European colonizers around the world did such dehumanization of various groups of people to justify their total destruction.
Even Hindus don't give this name to their children, because she embodies the power of time or wrath of time. Literally Kali means time. Kala or Kal is the male version.
Despite her terrible nature she is ultimate mother. " Don't take life seriously, what is destiny but mother's play. Be my play fellow for while and meet all happening merrily" - voice of kali. Here she just mother who want to play with her children. We are little children. Life is nothing but her motherly play. She tell us when we will get tired I will take you home and make us sleep in her lap ..
I'm a born Hindu and trust me, when I moved away from being religious and be an atheist cz every religion seemed so intolerant. Then, i realised how amazing, simple, non violent, religion Hinduism is. Hinduism addressed the current issues thousands of years back. Equal rights for women, equal rights to LGBTQ, love for all religions, and live with peace and harmony.
I view Kali as a Goddess who is destroying humanness and helps us reach enlightenment. I don’t know much about her but I am here to learn and will be contacting her through meditation. Thank you Kali Ma ♥️🎈
You got it correct -- Parvati ( wife of shiva ) is energy of the universe.Mother kali is anger part of the Durga (anti gravity ) destructive in nature where she deal with evil aspects .. Mother Durga is warrior form of Parvati ,Motherly nature who fight for her child..They all are one in different form.
I had a class in uni that dealt with Mythology and Kali was a discussion I enjoyed learning of why she was so angry I also learned about her from Smite
Not sure if anyone has commented this yet, but it’s really fascinating that tons of people have reported meeting this exact same entity in near-death-experiences and Dmt Trips. People who’ve never even heard of her or seen her have reported her perfectly down to the details 🤷🏼♂️. Crazy
She came to me when I did too much LSD and forced me to clean up my life. She came to show me my inner demons and beat my azz (lovingly). I changed my life around after that. I'll never forget how hard and yet loving she was. Such strong rage, feminine violence. I'll never forget the feeling. She was not angry at me yet she was enraged, showing me to myself. Sh has been with me my whole life and to this day is one of my favorite energies. She seems to just come to me whenever I need her.
Sexuality doesn't always involve sex itself, sometimes it just involves owning your own body and sexuality itself. It can be about being confident in yourself and loving your own body.
As I am progressing on my spiritual journey, practicing divination tools, reading up on universal laws and further developing my intuition, "gifts" and discernment, Kali comes up in some of my spreads and I thank her for helping me purify the negative energies that no longer serves me and opens me to positive energies and awakenings.
To understand her by literal conversion of texts is almost impossible. The westerners have a belief of core book as a doctrine must have. In Sanatan dharma, doctrinization is evil. Though that is allowed for productive purposes like knowledge sharing or special trainings like marshalarts or traditional cultural studies. Hence Sanatan dharma is not book centric. Veda is one of many books of guidances of Sanatan dharma. It's significance is not in it's script but kind of enlightenment it provides to the visualization capabilities of readers of Veda. So not all aspect of Sanatan dharma must be compared by Veda texts. Kali is not mentioned in Veda. Few vedists compare a yakshini with figure of Kali as once they used to compare Indra with Bramha which was clarified by better ones. Kali can be found in Bhagwati Purana. Yes Purana are older than Veda and are observations by visionaries predating to Vedas. The conjunction of vision to favourable and beneficiary and only accounting the favour and benefits to outer attributes is a falasy/deceiving gesture of outlook towards the world. Yes though it is thought in western and middle eastern culture that women and materials are made for beneficiary usage only and everything else including thunderstorms are all about punishments. Well that's so sweet !! But our way of vision is a bit more grown up. Because we are a knowledge centric culture. Hence we look for knowledge and well being even in what superficially may look horrible. Because we recognized, horror as a byproduct of resistances of self. Most of which associates with our preferential orders. We are also enough evolved to accept that not all are for serving a preference. Infact it is this clash of preferences which is the source of all what is violent and impacts evil on civilizations. This is so because the eternal reality in many forms taught us about the same with examples. Kali is one of those projection who taught us and teaches us to transcend that tininess of outlooks and visualization. Which would eventually open us up for each other and only self's associativity will no more be concerns of life. The tininess of self-centered view for everyone and everything had been the characters of all the devil's who are slayed by our Godliness like Goddes Kali. Thus the first and most prominent reasons of Kali Worship is liberation from finiteness of thoughts and preferences. This is just 1 of billions of aspects of holiness showered by the Goddess. Thanks and regards.
Saptarshi Banerjee. Thank you sir. Westerners are so used to refering to god as told by a book, they do the same with sanathana dharma. The vedas and all other scriptures are a means to an end, not the end. Thank you again. Jai Kali Maa.
@Chaos Burrito Joan d' Arc says hi. Sati wasn't even as prominent as you make it out to be. Like your name suggests, you are probably shitting out all of this misinformation after consuming one too many a burrito.
Chaos Burrito Pls do yr reseach before making idiotic statements. There is absolutely no relation of sati to hinduism. The was some practise in places like nepal but those were limited to certain tribes. Stone incription from the 12th century shows this practise started during muslim invasion. Women rather than become slaves to the invaders used to immolate themselves. There are written documents by the muslim historians who used to call this act " jauhar" Please go read up. Lots of info on this.
@Chaos Burrito people like you who comes after reading one antihindu article and thinks that they know everything should first search more about Sanatan dharm from correct resources. According to Sanatan dharm killing any living being is a sin,that's why suicide is also a sin. Those who kills themselves have to suffer a long cycle of life and death again and again. They don't get salvation easily. Thats why sati pratha is not something Sanatan dharm allows. Those are the corrupted rituals. India always suffered from the attacks of the foreign invaders. It was never stable. In ancient times women used to kill themselves to prevent themselves from the humiliation of slavery. With time this took a horrible form. People blindly follow any ritual without understanding it. Society was responsible for this.. This has nothing to do with the religion.
To bite one's tongue, I've only heard it as to refrain from saying something. The idea of embarrassment and modesty, isn't too surprising, the above mention of biting your tongue would be to stop yourself from saying something embarrassing, modesty applied to one's ego, preventing you from bragging about your achievements, or yourself.
That was made up by men to change her ferocity to fit a patriarchal image of women being weak/meek. She is not ashamed and has no reason to be. It is in passion and fulfilling of her desires that she sticks out her tongue, even to spite arrogant men who would try to enslave, domesticate, or control her. Think of the Maori, and other people who stick out their tongues before battle to intimidate and mock their enemies and show their spirit.
The word Kali comes from the word Kala means time. She is the slayer of Kala the time. She is often worshipped by her devotee for Mukti or Moksha or Enlightenment. She is not just any mother. She is Laksmi (the goddess of wealth), she is Saraswati (the goddess of wisdom), she is Bhabatarini(the loving mother). She is Trigunakrita(three as one).
I like that she is fundamentally the angry, darker side of Parvati/Durga, as if the kind deity of life and righteous war had some kind of split personality disorder (not to offend the goddess, just pointing out what I find funny).
Actually this is the case with most Hindu gods. There aren't million of goddesses but different avatars and version of the same being interpreted in different ways which differs from community to community. Like Tom cruise played Jerry McGuire, Ethan hunt, Jack reacher. All these 3 character are badass in their own way buy at the end of the day all were played by Tom cruise. Same way ram , Krishna, narsimha,etc are all avatar of Vishnu.
@Feelefant Affenhand I don't consider myself as a feminist & I do know that the lines between all of the God's are blurred some what, there isn't one God for this & one God for that in Hinduism. I actually like God's & Goddesses from around the world that has a duality to there personally.
Actually all gods and even the universe descends from one single source of energy. The energy that destroys universe is indeed Kaali and she is Shiva's consort. Similarly, many avatars and gods were born from Shiva's energy who all are basically assistants to him in dissolving universe. Or basically they are the same thing but have individual existence till they are separated
I'm a Western human woman, so I know my response isn't the same as someone that grew up in, or practices the religion. I maintain that despite this, I am human and so must be allowed access to all things humans have produced. So, you are welcome to look at the ways Kali manifests in Western culture and society, or tell me how you see the Trinity...especially if you are able to see both the lotus feet and the abstract. I look at Kali and I see so many ideas and concepts expressed. Fingerprints of so many human lives mark her stories. She has been seen and experienced in a multitude of times and hearts. Thus. I see her as both the expression of an inner state of being and as various aspects of that state of being. Multiplied by the billions of abstractions of that same force, and the billions that have been swept along in the times and tides of humankind. Those that looked at an instance and thought, "Ah, Kali." I see her as the transitory state of a protective, murderous rage that can spring from having your loved ones in danger. Then, like soldiers with PTSD, whose urge to protect the ones they love, they can end up hurting themselves and their loved ones. Especially if they get in the habit of using force to solve every problem. Like countries that having experienced a war in protection of themselves and others and emerged victorious, are tempted to punish the losers into the ground. Or, feeling the reinvigoration caused by a victory, to become, for instance, too expansion, or production happy. Not killing and drinking blood exactly... She's a female though, and emerges from a strong, peaceful, loving, nurturing female. Despite the change she remains female. Coming as she does from a Patriarchy, this is interesting to me. Is she also a warning to abusive people that the person you are abusing may take it on the chin when it comes to herself, hurt someone she loves, and boom! Then it takes someone they love to bring themselves back to themself.
1) Think of kali or maha kali as the energy of Brahman, her eternal (nirguna) form is formless, nameless and beyond attributes. 2) another interesting comparison of her role of energy that pervades everything on the multi verse is string theory were tiny vibrating strings of energetic vibrate at specific frequencies to take form as particles, wether bosons, fermions abs more exotic states - that energy is her 3) finally, kali actually means that which is the cause and beyond kaal or time Thus she is immortal and exists beyond time and space
Minor criticism? Or perhaps something for you to consider, a suggestion at best. Might I ask that you add a little text for the names of things you mention during the video, more so for words/names that have "questionable" spelling to the ears of viewers. Simply put, things spoken don't always have an obvious spelling, the text for such things may be of some help for those that wish to look into things further. All the same, love your videos, reasonable length and great, well researched content.
Hindus literally don't take these stories as real, it's just the way of knowing other dimension of life... It is totally different from the way u tell a marvel cinematic stpries, these stories are meant for spiritual progress...there are lots of nuances which only indian local guy could explain....
Lol. I was drinking my morning coffee when I read your comment and literally spit it all over the counter. I had an image of a very cardi b looking goddess Kali enter my mind. I couldn't help it. It happened because your comment is funny.
Another deep and esoteric concept missing here was the symbol of Kali standing on shiva. Kali represents the i (Shakti or energy) in shiva, without Kali shiva becomes shva which is Sanskrit for corpse. The nuance meaning here is that she represents the very energy within shiva and without her he is nothing more than an empty corpse. This pertains to their duality being maya ie illusion when they are one and the same
She is also goddess of magic and sorcery,Tantric (witchcraft) that's why she almost invoked by yogis, trantric. She has similiar to lil bit greek goddess Hacate.
There is an Irish Celtic Goddess with those same qualities, she is called the Morrigan. She was also a War Goddess. Her animal familliar is the Crow, because in ancient times you would see crows feasting on the dead bodies of fallen warriors on the battlefield.
@@arwieshbabolall3205 yeah her warrior image is lil scary but she is also has a form call vadra kali more gentle one. Hacate and kali share some common feature that's why when i learn about Hacate I remember kali. If you want to learn about her u can read 7 secrets of goddess by devdutt patnayak.
Never hurt a person who you know Kali takes care of. She is above time with her rage for enemies and love for her child unmatched. Not answerable to anyone. Jai ma Kali.
She’s also the consort of shiva, which is why she calmed down upon stepping on him and her tongue sticks out and is bitten out of embarrassment. There is also a creation story of one of the forms of kali, bhadrakali who was created from a lock of shiva’s hair.
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When I was a little child and got scared of dark places or my imaginary ghosts, demons etc., My mother would show me Goddess Kali and tell me to take her name and remember her and she would take care of the demons. It was really helpful.
@misuzu9254 what that doesnt make sense i thought ur an atheist? 😂
@@deaded7088 An Atheist is a idea that you do not believe in any religion or God but it dosen't mean that you cannot do the religion pratices as it can help some people find peace of mind even if they do not believe in that God
@@deaded7088 Being an atheist doesn't mean mantras are not useful. Mantras encode positive vibrations. Also, in Hinduism, the ultimately reality is called the universal consciousness unlike the concept of God in other traditions. And many atheists who don't believe God might feel that the universe is a living macrocosm rather than a random permutation of cosmic processes.
That's questionable. Not trying to offend anyone but that Kaali looks more like a vicious black blood-thirsty demon/witch with many hands holding weapons and severed heads.. Any normal person would faint to death if they suddenly encounters someone terrifying like that in real life... Idk why anyone would think her as a protective motherly goddess ? She's much different than what you hear normally about glorious angelic beings full of light.
Beautiful goddess
A mother protecting her children 🙏 In nature male animals get aggressive when their territory is threatened but female animals? They get aggressive to protect their offspring, that is what Kali is.
OH Hindus in the world !
Lets analysis Hinduisim with Haqal and MANTAQ,,
Not with our faith ,because we born in it,,,,
how earth that will be possible to see a team of men with Ten heads to be taht intellegent to be our creator?
How on earth a team of men with Eleven heads can even think stright ?
This team of men with Ten heads were only seen 5000 years ,,but can not be seen now?
@@mohamadfazli5575 they have been seen to mirabai,ahilyabai,adishankaracharya,etc,but aalah isnt seen till now....i can too raise this illogical question on u,so just plz stop being a stupid
@@Aman-td9nl if you begin to Think With Haqal and MANTAQ you would haven't believe to be a human with ten heads and Eleven arms and still can think straight !!!
@@Aman-td9nl think with Haqal And be for a moment not a hindu ,, would become a hindu if someone ask to become a hindu ?
@@mohamadfazli5575 yeah u are right...they arent humans,they are gods
I remember growing up in a fairly abusive home, Dad was an alcoholic and very violent, tried to drown me, pushed my brother and I in front of a train, very violent towards my mother, brother and I.
Mum was Hindu but Dad was Catholic, but as things got desperate and stuff like Child Protective services were useless; Mum started turning to religion, seemed like her only option, she even sat us down and said "I'm going to invoke Kali, because I want you two to be safe" she showed us a painting of Kali, said that she looks scary but she's not a monster, she deals with monsters. Probably the goriest image I remember seeing as a child was the garland of severed heads but Mum explained they're all the severed heads of criminals and murderers and bad people.
And one day, almost directly after we finished doing the prayer to ask for Kali's protection; Dad was coming home all drunk, ready to beat us when he suddenly stopped frozen, got in the car and left. It was extremely out of character, We were all shocked.
It wasn't until later when Mum was seeing a psychic and the psychic kind of got a fright from seeing her, she immediately asked "did you invoke Kali?" Mum asked "how did you know?" She then said "She's standing right behind you".
Her psychic then recommended that for most cases; if you want protection, it's more wise to invoke Durga for most cases, Kali is great for emergencies when you have no other option; but she can be brutal, walks a fine line.
So I thank Kali for everything she's done to protect us, although I hope that the circumstances that caused us to pray to her to begin with don't arise.
What your mom probably did was tantra vidya which is prohibited because it's tamasic in nature.
Tell your mom to never use it again or next time she may invite someone or something that she may not be able to handle.
What truthfully took place is either your mother had enough deep contemplation and detailed thought to go along with desire and reason which also went along with a fundamental of reality which is life it sounds like she had and all the proper ingredients for creating her own Hitman for lack of a better term. See you can make an entity that is capable of thought incapable of figuring out different situations that you personally are unaware of and you can make this entity to protect or to destroy but not many people can make one. But it's very possible if you know how but it was not the original Cali you hear of although the original Kali I'm sure it's still out there somewhere but was created the same way that I just told you your mother's was created because mankind created all the gods that's what the fall is we don't realize what we are we think a God is higher than us when the truth is we're the thing that makes gods because we are a little seed of the all creator on our journey to grow into having our own reality therefore kind of like a baby learning how to walk we kind of learn how to do things that we will be able to easily do in the next life. However I wouldn't pursue trying to make one because they don't have emotions like you and I do if there's a job to do they do it without thinking very animalistic so if somebody you don't want to get hurt gets in the way they will get hurt without you realizing it so best be careful and because it was created for you is all you have to do is call upon it in whichever way the marker was set up for that to be so be careful and even passive thought on the matter
Please use the prefix "Devi" as Devi Kali..out of respect when ever u pray to her
Good story. Even I, a not-knowing, unwise western tourist had the good fortune of saying hello to Durga and ask her to protect both me and India from whatever demons I might carry around, when I first visisted India. Now, only slightly less not-knowing and unwise, I thank ganesh fo not letting me stumple into a temple for Kali upon that fateful day of breaking my India-traveller virginity. Kali would have belched a burp of fire, ripped the demons from my soul and then went straight to Denmark, where I live, and sought out their roots to rip them out as well, then backtracking my journey to eradicate all evidense of their existence right up till the point of me Stepping inside her temple. ..As it is, my life-itinerary hopefully will bring me to Calcutta sometime in 2028-2030. Then I will do puja to her there, and give thanks for her stilling her hand over us for that long (a lot can happen geo-politically in those ten years from now to then, and it *do* look sort of grim to anyone hoping to travel a peaceful and friendly world.) But with luck, some Bhudda-shine lightening up influencial minds and by virtue of a life devoted to a truthfull experience - there will be water.
This is such a fascinating story. reminds me of when I was around 7 years old and my brother was 2. We were playing outside, hide and seek in the evening and my brother was found hiding in a corner. only he wasn't hiding. He convulsing and frothing at the mouth. I called my dad and we immediately rushed him to a hospital. I remember my brother screaming but it didn't sound human. more like a squeal. like and animal in pain. It took 5 adults to restrain him and multiple attempts to sedate him before he calmed down. They had no idea what happened and the doctors discharged him. We knew he was not okay. For the next few days he wasn't my brother. He wasn't there. hard to explain but my mother started being scratched and grabbed at night. my brother was getting worse. looking more drained every day. eventually my parents went to see our Guru. to this day I don't know what was discussed exactly but I know we did a prayer invoking Kali and had to give a sacrifice. I was terrified. I thought Kali looked so scary. I thought she was the monster making brother sick but my dad explained something very bad was affecting my baby brother and Kali was going to fight it. He explained that Kali is a mother and loves her children. she would not harm a small child. she protects us. immediately after the prayer my brother was his normal self. to this day we worship Kali in our house. I think if it wasn't for her my brother would have died.
She is a very misunderstood goddess. In the west a lot of people view her sa evil, but when you understand what she stands for, you learn to respect her.
samantha lewin they demonised jer she’s not evil
Indiana Jones anyone
You know alot of atheist say thay our God is imoral because of nit picking some scriptures. But it is very obvious to all that your gods( demons in discise ) are very fucked up. If i slaughter a bunch of thieves monstrously dose that make me imoral or justified. I think we all know the answer.
@@7kevin11rodriguezcorrea4 You don't have the right to criticize someone else's God as "fucked up and immoral" when you adhere to a God committing genocide, including the killing of babies and your own children, and condoning of rape and cannibalism, and you seem to be aware of this too, Kali is a demon slayer, demons cannot be compared to thieves
@@jaxthewolf4572 flood because it was inevitable they will be evil but cannibalism? Wtf where dose the bible say eat your own kind?
My favourite maa kali story is the one where she goes to battle and her rage almost destroys the world but lord Shiva comes in the form of a child and her maternal instincts calm her down. To me she is all women. Jai maa kali
@@goofybutserious4807 Their is no flat earth things in Hinduism. Maybe it is in Christianity
Similar to the story of Sekhmet.
Beautifull
David AdventTime21 Hinduism was the first religion to recognize a round earth. Most flat earthers I’ve seen are Christians
@@goofybutserious4807 oh, look!
A cringe 11 year old who thinks he's so *eDgY* and *SaVaG* saying absolute batshit things about others and masking them with "heheheh"
Mother Kali personifies destruction in the way that if her loved ones are hurt, her rage will destroy the people who hurt them.
Thank you
Alchemy.
So she's more like the Goddess of vengence and retribution?
@@ScipioWasHere yes
@@ScipioWasHere Isn't that nemesis or is nemesis something else
In other words a man's rage is quelled by a woman's touch but nothing can surpass the wrath of a woman scorned.
@@krodhbhattaraka5281 kali is true goddess
🙃What forces Nature or Creation to assume such a form or is it all Cycle of Time where Rise and Fall of Humans is an Eternal Drama?
Except the Fear that she has inadvertently slain her Husband...
Kali reminds me of Hera since Hera teaches Zeus a lesson everytime he cheats on her only beware of the rage.
Shiva did calm her down when she went on a rampage killing everyone who came in her path. She destroyed the demons but was so outraged that she went on massacring even the good side. Shiva lied down at her feet and as she stepped on him, she realised in shock that it was Lord Shiva, her husband she had stepped on and was about to kill. That brought her back to her senses and she converted back to Parvati, her calm, mellow version.
We Bengalis literally have a section of our folk songs dedicated to her, those are known as shyama sangeet.
@Andrea C Lol maybe. But she is our favorite Goddess
@Andrea C lol that's true they do it soo much.
@Andrea C what about aghori tantriks of UP varanashi.. they do black magic.
@@smiles9599 stop your bullshit steretype thing kali is not only bengali's god but also hindu's god every state people worship her biharis,upwalas,marathis,tamils etc. Even there are many aghori tantriks in in UP they do black magic lol😂😂
@@kathakalidas1937 True idk what white people call their black magic probably they take matters into their own hands and call it karma and then there is Voodoo which seems more dark.
She's my absolute favorite of the Hindu gods/goddesses. I mention her name almost daily.
@dead man kali is god ? Don't be demon 🤢🤢🤢👿 first god and read your previous comment look what you wrote about kali are u even a hindu or human ??
@dead man how can u say something like this to a mother figure?
@dead man no merry is more hot.
@dead man why are bombarding your absurd uncivilized comments on our god?
@@Laxmi-hv9qy Just ignore him, he def doesn't have a life and his parents prob hate him.
I'm Russian and have no ties to india, but I'm drawn to kali and I'm fascinated by her. she's the queen.
@Jerry smith you should focus more on Vedas and upanisads for spirituality .
These gods and godess are from puranic tradition .
I advice read staryarth prakash and rig ved bhasya of maharaishi Dayanada saraswati so that it will help you to get a hint on Vedas .
These local traditions like vasihnavism,shavism,shaktism etc have diverted from the Vedic path .
Lastly do read the biased translation of Vedas by Marxist and Islamist cause their you'll find all short of nonsense.
She is queen of queen
LAXMINARAYAN SAHOO oh STFU. You are a nonsense yourself.
LAXMINARAYAN SAHOO fanatics
LAXMINARAYAN SAHOO
Why are you confusing a person who wants to build a relationship with Kali Maa.
Hinduism's very strength is the many options given to a seeker depending on his emotional state and his intellectual level. The vedas tho highly respected is not the only scriptures available. There are principle upanishads, puranas, agamas and some even take the path of tantra. There is no such thing as only this scripture is correct. Even Bhagavadgita is accepted as an authoritative scripture by many.
Hindu scholars and philosophers constantly discuss both the nirguna and saguna espects of Brahman. Nirguna to describe brahman in an atributeless form and saguna to describe brahman with qualities and atributes. Both are used to describe the Parabrahman or absolute reality in its transcendent and immanent nature and as such involves neither negation nor inclusion.
A person has the freedom to choose any form that resonates with his inner self as his Ishta Devata and begin his or her path in spirituality.
Hinduism is unlike abrahamic traditions that basically have a 1 size fits all scripture.
Great Maha purushas like Ramakrishna Paramahansa worshiped at the lotus feet of Kali Maa to reach the highest levels of spiritual realisation. And he gave us Swami Vivekananda who took Hinduism to the larger world.
I believe yr intention was good, but please be careful with what you advice people.
Its so fascinating to me that in hinduism the god of power (shakti) is a goddess,a woman and she is mother of god of war,Kartikeya and warriors used to pray to Goddess Durga/Kali/Shakti to give them power....seems to me hinduism indicates that women are more powerful then men and they should be respected as well
@@helghastimokingo rational answer
@@putwalk8883 typical.
The "many wives" are the endless roles women play as matriarch of a family, as powerful at the least
Not really. The trimurti, which is the cosmic trio that controls the universe itself and is solely responsible for its birth, its functioning and its destruction, leading to rebirth and restarting of the cycle, are all represented as being masculine. They are the deities that are responsible for the world as it is. Nothing is stronger than brahman (not brahma).
Kalis stroy doesn't really show the dominance of women over men, it shows dominance of rage and violence and temper over human minds, and the struggle between a human and his/her emotions of anger and wrath. The genders these deities are given is only a means to personify them, to make their interactions seem more human. The personification is just an element of storytelling, what these men and women in Hindu legends represent is not the genders they are presented as, but the emotions these deities represent. Kali represents anger and destruction of evil, which are both formless and gender less. Similarly the trimurti represents birthing, living and destruction, which are formless and gender less as well.
Take these deities as you will, either as the formless human emotion they represent or their personification, which is only a shell given to them, but Hinduism never dictates that men are inferior to women. In all these legends, if you wish to take them in their face values as their personifications, all the goddesses that are the wives of all the gods call their husbands "prabhu", literally translating to my lord or God. Their wives are shown to go to extreme lengths to care for them, calm them down, to pray to and worship them, and love them. The husbands do the same. If anything, these legends dictate the importance of both women and men in different domains, none more important than the other.
Gorkhas worship her
Bro seriously Women are powerful than Men do you mean Women are as powerful as man
Goddess Kali represent all women's hidden power, girls are not weak, if she create and protect then she also be strong
@kshitij924 its shiva
@Manashi Chatterjee she is the Hindu goddess of sexuality after all
@@alyssapinon9670 lol she's not Goddess of Sexuality, who told you.
Kali is seen as mother so having lusty thoughts towards mother is a sin.
@@alyssapinon9670 The Goddess of Sexuality is Rati who's wife of Kamdev
@STAN LEE what do you mean "sexy"? Ugh, disgusting. I would never have that kind of thought towards Maa Kali 🙄
I find great symbolic meanings and great lessons from every Hindu God and Goddess... Such a beauty and freedom of thought I never get from other religions...
Where are you from, friend?
She is not ever a soul devouring Evil Goddess...
She Kills the Demons of Sinfullness.Anger. Hatred.Addiction.
She Never Hurts Lord Shiva. It Means She is Poweful Enough to Even rise over God . She is manifested from Durga yes.
Saffiyeh Jaffer
And she’s the destroyer of the ego. The devas and devis are attributes, functions, manifestations, and forms of God, the Supreme reality, Brahman
Sol i ....yes Well said.
" Destroyer of Ego...i.e. Addiction.anger.lust.greed. etc.).... This actually should be more clarified.
Ma Kali & SadaShiva both are my Istadeveta🙏🙏
Saffiyeh Jaffer
Yes it should be clarified. A lot of his videos are watered down. No disrespect tho
Thank you
Monster magnet.
Kali is the goddess of Time. Her devotee becomes free from the effect of time and can travel freely past and future.
Ah, this is an interesting point! Given what I've observed in her symbolic ties to Saturn, and the evidence of my personal observations, I can see the connection.
Parvati = Base form
Durga = Super Saiyan
Kali = Super Saiyan Blue.
Nice DBS reference.
I didn't know, I needed this cross over 😂
😹😹 This is hilarious.
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I mean basically yeah💯
🌸 Durga Mata (depicted with tiger or lion) and Kali (depicted with skulls etc) are both consorts of Shiva
Shiva’s first wife was Sati then reincarnated as Parvati. She in turn had different manifested forms or Shakti, such as Durga who I turn can bring forth Kali from her forehead, only during violent rage. Kali translates as the black one, due to her skin.
They are all same, Durga just creates a different identity or form to eliminate demons, it was during a battle she created this powerful side to herself. One in particular demon Raktabija was able to spawn new demons or replicas of himself via every drop of blood shed.
By drinking all his blood he couldn’t clone himself and was then defeated.
You are well informed. I am impressed. May the Divine mother bless you.
Yaaas queen couldn’t have said it better myself 👊🏾
You are well informed.
Parag Bhattacharya born into Hindu family
To my knowledge I was thought that Ma Jagadumba was created from the combined powers of Brahma, Vishnu , Lakshmi , Shiva and Ma Parvati. Thus Ma Jagadumba was born when she realise that the demon mahishasur could not die she transformed to Kali ma and depose of him . I believe in this theory because in the Maha Kali imagine she has the chakra weapon of Lord Vishnu in one of her arms.
Thank you for doing this. You approach Hinduism with an open-mind and are very respectful with our stories. I appreciate that.
I loved her in High School which my Hindu friends in college were shocked I knew who she was and that I loved her. I never feared her but I knew never to cross her.
I am an ardent devotee of Maha Kali... she is my mother . She loves me protects me.
I love this channel. I have always wondered about other people's religion/beliefs and God's and Goddesses good and evil. Thank you.
Thank you for watching!
Nothing good or evil as per Hinduism. Everything is God's manifestation.
JYA MAA KALI AAYO GORKHALI is the proverb still being used by gurkhas soldiers while engaging enemies...
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Durga: *gets mad fighting demons
Demons: why do I hear doom music?
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In Hinduism, all Gods are manifestations of One universal consciousness. Shakti is a feminine supreme and Kali is her manifestation.
THOSE MANIFESTATIONS ARE THE DEVIL SATAN HIMSELF. THIS IS WHERE ALL THE HINDU GREEK AND ROMAN god's CAME FROM. THEY ARE THE DEVIL SATAN AND THE 1/3 FALLEN LEGIONS OF ANGELS MANIFESTING THEMSELVES IN THE FLESH WHO FELL FROM HEAVEN. THE BIBLE IS THE ONLY INSPIRED WORD OF GOD GET YOURSELF ONE.
O yeah brahman
Brahman is the ultimate truth. All God's and goddesses are it's manifestations.
Shiva is not the one needs to be calmed down. He’s the god of death/consciousness/space; he directs kali’s wild energy. Kali is the goddess of nature/time/wrath/birth. The image of kali is how every married man thinks of his wife.
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Shiva is just calm. Shiva's short is Shva which means dead body, Shiva has to be awaken by Shakti, i.e. Mother form. Without the Shakti, there would be no Shiva, no creation, nothing.
@@ametrineambrosia4929 OK
Don't put your stupid abrahmization of our goddess she is independent and furious carefull
@@aadarshvani9969 as you wish.
I am German but i believe in reincarnation i also believe that Hindu religion is smbolic and beautiful
Ancient Germanic religion also had a similar deity. One can see that all pagan religions are one and the same.
@dumb student only one religion is demonic... and every one knows that... it is religion of terror... satanic islam..
@Rafi Boss krishna never says... non believer go to hell. krishna"s only talking about " karma ".
@Rafi Boss bad karma :- when a child born without father .
omg.... he was your prophet.
@Rafi Boss you are born of worst karma. Krishna only send those to hell who insult others faith without any reason and you are surely ending up like that. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
She drank the Blood of the Thieves just as she drank the Blood of the Demon whose blood spawns copies of himself. This act of drinking their Blood was to show that She would make sure that NO ONE who slays the Innocent against their Will shall be permitted to exist in any iota. It also symbolizes that these Thieves are avatars of that same Ractabesha (sp?).
No that thug's story is wrong.
never heard of this story
probably a fake one
I don't wish to talk about what one cannot know, however in nature, there can be no creation without destruction. Kali was here before the beginning.
What you mentioned, it kind of makes sense in a way. There are parts of the world where fire is used as an aide to help new trees grow, whether it is man - made or natural. There is a tribe of Native Americans who know how to do this.
@@labelledamedumanor4876 A great example. In Africa, seasonal fires, which are caused by lightning, burn the grasses and are needed by many plants to stimulate their propagation. In a dualistic way, fire destroys, but also gives life, like the sun. Another awesome example of the endless spiraling process of Creation-Destruction-Creation is that over earths' history - around 4 billion years - there have been at least six large meteor strikes of incredible magnitude which have resulted in near extinction events. Yet life always finds a way to peek through the cracks and start again, to flourish, and inevitably reach another deathly rebirth or transformation. It's awesome and amazing, just like the Goddess :)
Kali is goddess shakti or prakiti. Her destruction mean s the the destruction of nature. Her violent form represents that nature can be also violent. But this nature is the whole universe she is great creative energy. She always protects her children every living animals are her child.
She has a lot in common with the Hawaiian goddess Péle there. She considers every living thing in Hawaii as her children, the animals, plants, birds, fish, you name it.
Then why isn't mc Donals not destroyed?
LOOOOVE THIS! I alwayz have had a huge appreciation, admiration n love for Kali-Ma. My next tattoo for sure
@Susam Karmakar Thank you for being so kind in caring. I really appreciate that. 😊 I just really love the duality n strength that great Goddess Kali represents. To me she is what feminist aspire to be. Most women strive to be Queens or Princesses, not I. I alwayz am a Goddess. I'm not a Queen who sits beneath a man and waits for him to give me orders. Nor am I a Princess being ordered around by other people being married off to another without my consent. I am a powerful, wise and mighty Goddess who looks down on and protects all.
Iv got 1 siting left , of a full back piece of her lol
Kali is the distructer of ego. Thats why she is often depicted with decapateded heads. She is loving in her distruction.
More13Feen wish she could destroy my TFs ego lol
🌟 MORNING STAR⭐️ only he can destroy it by doing the inner work and facing his shadow . Kali is an aspect of ourselves which is the soul =god , and she can give him all the tools ect but she can’t do it for him he needs to do it himself
Can Kali make the lazy more hungry for climbing the ladder to attain success? I need that.
Don't tell anything without proper knowledge. Kali destroy only evil and save the world.
Thanks I've learned a lot from this video. Completely changed my perception of Kali. Keep doing what you do.
Wow! this explains the dream I had about the planet Saturn. A feminine presence that's referred to as mother (black widow).
If indeed you had a dream about a dark widow goddess associated with saturn, then it has to be the tantric goddess Dhumavati, also called Dhumrakali or Dhumravarahi. She is a tantric goddess, one of the Mahavidyas or ten modes of knowledge.
Her name means one with a smoke like form. She is a ferocious goddess, one of her kind and people usually don't dare worship her since she embodies primordial energy sans the male principle. Which means she is the power of dissolution or Pralaya.
Usually energy or Shakti is with the male Principle which makes her auspicious. But Dhumavati is perhaps the only great goddess described as a widow.
She is associated with planet saturn and is said to be the presiding goddess of saturn but some accounts also connect her with the south node. She has the crow for a symbol and is old and having a voracious appetite. She swallows or draws into herself every manifest thing thus making them disappear into the womb of time. It is said that she even swallowed her spouse thus leaving her alone at the time of dissolution.
Kali is never described as a widow. She is the spouse of Shiva, the eternal one.
My name is Kali! :)
Hello Kali,I'm vegan!
no shit!
Beleive in kali and pay homage
She protects you
But you have to be just when you curse upon a wrong doer.
And my pocket is khali 😝
Yeah I'm sure it's pronounced SUPER DUPER WHITE GIRLY THO. 😂😂😂🙋🏼♀️
Kali is 1 of my spiritual expressions. So is Sekhmet. Both are fierce protectors.
Idol worship ..
Total idol worship unknowingly worship satan.. A symbol holding decapitated heads is such a god of love? Crazy assertion..
Sekhmet in India Equivalent to Pratyangira
@@danthumu2211 Satan is a construct of Abrahamic religions to demonize other religions. But heretical Christian sects have identified your jealous God, the creator himself as the real Satan. Ever heard of YALTABAOTH. That is the Abrahamic Creator God described by gnostics and heretical Christians. Lutherans call Catholics, Jews and other protestants as Satanists and vice versa But we are not obsessed with evil.
And if your intelligence doesnt permit you to understand the language of symbolism that is your problem. Because you people are trained only to see the obvious and are incapable of understanding the language of symbolism and its nuances. In Hindu mythology the head is called Uttamanga or seat of ego. Severed head doesn't represent murder for us. It represents destruction of ego. Why else is there a term loss of face for humiliation? Does it imply actual lose of face? If you are devoted Christian please keep away from the mythologies of other cultures. It will save you from confusion.
@@danthumu2211 A symbol who tortures people in a lake of fire forever is a god of love? Crazy assertion….
She's the REAL STUFF. She has been pushed to the brink, she turned her head into the inevitable. Underneath it all, she protects us because she is the universal mother and LOVE.
It could never be that Kali sometimes has to correct Shiva... He is not perfect.. The remorse is not that she is out of control just that she has in her to correct the god head and vice versa... When she is out of control it is the love and compassion of Shiva that brings her back....she is only doing what is asked of her.. You must go full force...
I always feel as if Kali is the goddess that watches over me. Like every night, I feel her energy.
Shes the mother goddess💕👑
RelangaceDE Da'wa . This is a stupid argument when u say my god is just imagination, your god is the true God. Why cant it be the other way around?? My god is the true god and yr god is just a figmentation of yr imagination.
Sometimes i wonder how stupid u prople can get. U might as well say my mother is better than yr mother.
RelangaceDE Da'wa .
To say that hinduism derives from pre - indo - godheads is argumentative. So lets not get into that for now.
You say in cultures around the world people believe in a sole creator deity.
Hindu scriptures say there is one totally atributeless power beyond the comprehension of the human mind and the hindu rishis(sages) call this power "Brahman". But the hindu rishis also believed that since this Brahman is infinite, it could also be approached in an infinite number of ways.
The concept of monotheism from the hindu viewpoint is normally left to the yogis and rishis at a higher level of spiritual understanding, the reason being if you are not spiritually evolved you will misinterprate this 1 god concept. This is what is basically happening to the abrahamic faiths. There is so much of conflict because they believe only their god is true and either they kill all disbelievers or try to save them from eternal damnation.
Hinduism on the other hand allows polytheism. Here you are free to choose which ever god yr emotions and intellect resonates with and through that chosen path u first start to develope your mind. Only when yr mind is mature and developed enough do you now contemplate on the Brahman.
In this way conflict is eradicated. Once the mind is ripe the realisation that all forms or paths eventually leads to 1 reality will come, so we are at peace with all religions and all paths.
This is the reason there is no such thing as conversion in hinduism because we believe all paths are correct, should it be practised in the right way. The very framework of hinduism also allows for healthy sceptism, because only in such an environment can one begin to investigate the truth.
The true purpose of spirituality is to lift the veil of illusion so that the very mystery of creation is revealed.
@@navilsiripala1037 Sadly, some people will never even try to understand that. Someone is always so quick to turn down polytheism, and only believe in a monotheistic faith, and try to hurt/ degrade anyone with a different perspective. And, I just can't stand it
Vitani B Mamba. The people who profess the abrahamic faiths will never accept this. It is left upto people like you and me to correct this perception. Dont get angry or lose faith. This is not a new argument. It has been there since religion came along. Wars have been fought over this, millions killed. But the good news is so many people all over the world are beginning to understand the concepts and beauty of hinduism. As the intelligence of man grows, he will reject anything that doesnt have a logical explanation to it. And in this respect ive not seen anything that even comes close to Sanathana Dharma - The eternal truth. Cheers and God bless Vitani.
@@veritasdeutsch6608 Lord Shiva is white because he is always in meditation and is a brahamchari so it's because of ojas Shakti on his body hes termed white not because of skin colour. He has bright radiance on his face that's y hes termed white.he is the guru of all yogis.
Sri Krishna is blue in colour because he is the god of all yogis and has a perfect body. One who attains perfection in yoga and reaches the physical limit acquires a blue body. That's y he has a blue body.
In reality they are supreme forces.
But when they take Avatar they acquire these bodies. And they all are the manifestations of the supreme reality the par braham that is formless limitless ever-present omnipotent omniscient and that which the senses cant understand.
That par braham manifests as Trinity.
Vishnu, brahma and shiva
Brahma is born from Vishnu..lord Shiva is just yogic form of lord Vishnu. But all three are one and manifestation of the supreme.
Lord Vishnu then again manifests into three forms first is the maha Vishnu who takes Avatar as lord Rama or Sri Krishna.
Second in every atom of this whole universe.
And third in the heart of every being whether it's demon or dieties or creatures or humans etc.
Lord Brahma is called the creator because he is the grandfather of all beings. He is the largest being of this material world. He is the creator of all dieties , humans, demons, etc etc and of all celestial beings.
And lord Shiva ...shiva means the pious one or that which is not. He is the destroyer. He is responsible for destruction of the universe for recreation. He is also called Bholenath that means the innocent god because he gets pleased very easily. Anyone who prays to him whole heartedly he gets easily pleased and grants boon. There's no special arrangements needed for his Pooja. One can pray him in his heart and offer anything. His innocent nature is because he is always meditating on God.
These are Trinity. They are neither masculine nor feminine. Now the energy of the supreme reality is the feminine form of god. Such as goddess Durga or goddess Mahakali. They are a necessity for creation. All the material bodies of this universe is shiva and energy by which these bodies work is Shakti or goddess Parvati.
Mother Durga is the feminine form of the supreme. She gives fruits acc to actions. It is her energy due to which everyone lives in illusion. People think they are body now this is the illusion they are actually soul which is part of supreme. From here on purana ends and vedic philosophy starts.
Purans are about celestial beeings and hiw all this universe works while Vedas are about earthy sciences and their use.
Whatever is depicted in puranas and vedas are reality. They not only happened once but happens in human body and in each and every atom of the universe.
I hope this helps.
A simple Kali mantra to invoke Her:
Hreem Kleem Kleem
A severe mantra for severe personal hurricanes:
Aum Aieem Hreem Kleem Chamundayai Vicché
Kali...a lover if you're mad, a mother if you're bad.
hello, i feel i am deeply connected to Kali and everytime i think of her i get goosebumps. i feel her power. it resonates with the anger within me, i feel like we have the same violent and mother tendencies. i want to devote myself to her. but i am a non-hindu. is this possible? how can i worship her
@@tozates You worship Her as She tells you to. Simple. I'm not a Hindoo either. She's the Goddess of those that don't belong in the polite society.
om klīṁ krīṁ hūṁ kroṁ sphreṁ kāmakalākāli sphreṁ kroṁ hūṁ krīṁ klīṁ svāhā
@sibertooth You mean East India. Bengal. Western India is obsessed with Sri Mahalaxmi & Ganapati.
Sure. Smashan Kali is mainstream.
Sure. Smashan sadhana is mainstream.
Sure. Vamachara is polite civil society.
Aum Kali.
@@tozates Unlike Christianity and Islam, there is no concept of conversion in Hinduism aka Santan Dharma (eternal truth), you can just pray to her by chanting her mantras.
@@tozates Yes you can. Let me tell you about Shree Ramakrishna Paramhangsadev who was a devotee of Maa Kali. Maa Kali appeared before him in her calm form. Shree Ramakrishna Kathamrita (book written on the life of Shree Ramakrishna Dev) says that he used to feed Maa Kali with his own hands, he treated her like his own mother and for this the outside world often considered him as insane. But it was just his childlike simplicity and love for Maa Kali, that she had to appear before him. And Sri Ramakrishna Dev said, "Joto Mot, Toto Path" that translates into there are many ways and every way leads to the same divine. So, ofcourse you can worship Maa Kali. Just chant her mantras of Dakshina Kali, because every form of Maa Kali may not be suitable for everyone because of their connection with hardcore tantravidya.
Thugees were demonized by British through Atrocity Literature, Thugees were tribals who waged guerilla war against British in Central India and refused to give up on their forest land thus British used literature to demonize them and showing them of worshipping of dark powers or something who committed human sacrifice. And later on introduced the word 'Thug' which very commonly used in English now and in Indian languages 'Thug' whose meaning is a bit changed from English word and it means 'someone who is a cheat' in India. And this is the damage British did to the identity of a tribal group which didn't wanted to let its land go but who cares for truth cause in Colonial Era books its written that they performed Human Sacrifices but on other hand no one finds such mention in any Indian literature prior to that era.
Ushtavaiti . Absolutely spot on. So much of our history was systematically destroyed. What we have today is not even 10% of what was. And sad to say some indian politicians have worked hand in hand with these foreigners who all came to loot and control indians for their own agenda.
Kevin Aldrich. The answer is yes and no. Yes the british being predominently christian demonised everything they cud about the practises of the hindu religion. The "thugies" were specifically targeted because they fought against british rule. The thugies worshiped Kali Maa so the british demonised them as worshiping an evil goddess who demands blood. There was no such thing, Kali Maa never asked for this. Almost every freedom fighter worshiped the mother goddess in her form as a evil slayer like Kali Maa or Durga Maa or Chamunda Maa.
The concept of sacrifies existed since civilisation existed. U can even see this in the old testment, in the Quran and so on. Meat eating people normally do this during a feast after which they partake in eating the meat. So some people do practise these kind of worship. There are those who justify this by saying the Mother drinks blood so it is ok to offer her this. But hindu scriptures are in poetic form that always has a story behind the story. There will be one story to the ignorant mind and another deeper message to the true seeker. There is a verse saying Kali Maa cut of the demon Raktabeeja's head and drank his blood without allowing his blood to touch the ground because it is believed that when a drop of his blood touched the ground another Raktabeeja wud arise. But when u analyse "Raktabeeja" further it means " the seed of desire". It has nothing to do with blood as per say but more of Desire. What it really means is one desire will lead to another and that to another. Uncontrolable desire is what keeps us trapped in this cycle of life and death. So Kali Maa says offer me this "Seed of desire" within you and i shall grant you moksha. Stories are told that she is ashamed for stepping her husband thats why her tongue is sticking out. That is a story for children. The true meaning is offer all yr desires and evil thoughts at my feet and I will grant you "Shivahood". (Shiva at her feet)
Kali Maa is the Mother who takes a ferocious form to protect her loving children - us. The only "offering" she asks is our love, nothing else. A child is normally appeased by a toy, but when a child refuses all these "toys (earthly desires)" but only cries for its mother, then the "Mother" will come. Jai Kali Maa.
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Lovely.
Like the ones Alfred from batman had to fight back in the day.
But the sources say the thuggies killed mostly Indian people and looted them.There were little or almost no killings of British officials.
Thuggies are also said to be both hindus and muslims who worshipped Kali and mostly killed people by strangulation.
If that's true then why so many common Indians were killed by them?
And by the way, Kali was worshipped all over India at that time too, not only by thuggies.
Dang, she made the god of death run away from just hearing about her?
It sounds like she's a protector with a bit of a temper. :3
You can say that as mentioned in the video her hair is open that represents she is not bounded by someone or something. Kali literally mean above time.
She is protector of the pious people and destructor of sinful people
Kartikeya killed yama to protect his father's devotee
the only Queen that reminds me of of Kali when I checked out the history is Rani of Jhansi quite a skilled fighter and wise. Even one of the most skilled British General mentioned her in his book.
Boadicca too.
Mother goddess KALI is the protector of child from evil demon/shatan. In real life also a mother can't leave her son,when she feel her son is unsecure and try to engage with enemy for child. Jay maa kali..aao gorkhali(war cry of gorkha) is the fear heart sound for enemy..
True. Originally Kali or Parvati was a mountain goddess. She's the wife of Shiva and she lives with him in Kailasha ( which is the Nepal- Tibbet border in modern days)
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That's why dark skin is auspicious and godly......it is the blue tone off the gods...as well as the door you enter to get into the best realm upon death
Just think the Trinity(three top Hindu God's) as different races.... Like Brahma is the white guy.... Vishnu is the brown one and Shiva is the black one....
@@bharath7528 oh common. Vishnu is blue skinned because of his divinity. Similarly Shiva is fair and bluish yet smeared with ashes to show his renouncement from worldly affairs.
@@pij6277 just think of it practically like all Hindu stories.... Our stories actually doesn't need to be taken literally... We should compare them to real life situations
It's not dark skin it's blue skin which represents sky and universe
Every skin is auspicious and godly because god is in everyone.
It makes sense that she is the God of time.
Time gives life, time takes away life.
@Entertainment Pavement so, if that is true, so is kali.
Thugs weren't not evil. They were simply a tribe whose diety was the divine mother Kali. The British wanted to take over their territory and in the process committed a genocide of the Thug community. The British later produced several literature demonising the Thug to the extent that the word Thug itself was corrupted. Please get your facts right.
They were still Thugs though, aren't Thugs bullies? Yes
@@imogenjennings3992 thug is a word taken into English language from India from a clan which used to kill britishers .
I'm studying this at the moment and the Thuggees' actions were not good. They used this mythology to kill over a million travellers and take their money. Therefore its good that the british abolished this practise; even members of the community denounced and looked down upon Thuggees.
British dehumanise the entire community to justify their genocide. European colonizers around the world did such dehumanization of various groups of people to justify their total destruction.
My name is Kali and everything about this video describes my personality. I need to learn more about this Goddness!!
How did you get this name, assuming you aren't hindu?
@@metalcooper5429 my parents saw me and named me Kali. They didn't have a set name before I was born.
Even Hindus don't give this name to their children, because she embodies the power of time or wrath of time. Literally Kali means time. Kala or Kal is the male version.
If we are named after goddesses or demons, i guess i was the wife of the first biblical man😔
Despite her terrible nature she is ultimate mother. " Don't take life seriously, what is destiny but mother's play. Be my play fellow for while and meet all happening merrily" - voice of kali. Here she just mother who want to play with her children. We are little children. Life is nothing but her motherly play. She tell us when we will get tired I will take you home and make us sleep in her lap ..
You've done a really great job to depicting aspects of hindu religion. I saw many videos of your channel and they're pretty good, keep it up 👍
I'm a born Hindu and trust me, when I moved away from being religious and be an atheist cz every religion seemed so intolerant. Then, i realised how amazing, simple, non violent, religion Hinduism is. Hinduism addressed the current issues thousands of years back. Equal rights for women, equal rights to LGBTQ, love for all religions, and live with peace and harmony.
@Rafi Boss LOOOOOL all non Hindus will go to hell really. So idol worshippers and mushrikeens are meant to be in heaven you guys are a joke
@Rafi Boss In Hinduism find the Birth of swami ayappan
‘Non violent’ did you even watch the video ?
Kali is her name. MA means mother In an affectionate/ honorific way
For every day prayers, pray to Durga, the more calmer aspect of Kali. For emergencies, pray to Kali. She destroys troubles.
Kali is misunderstood most of the time as a fierce god. She is a mother and protector
I view Kali as a Goddess who is destroying humanness and helps us reach enlightenment. I don’t know much about her but I am here to learn and will be contacting her through meditation. Thank you Kali Ma ♥️🎈
you could say she is the opposite side of the same coin.
You got it correct -- Parvati ( wife of shiva ) is energy of the universe.Mother kali is anger part of the Durga (anti gravity ) destructive in nature where she deal with evil aspects .. Mother Durga is warrior form of Parvati ,Motherly nature who fight for her child..They all are one in different form.
Lockdown has brought about so much learning. Thank you.
I had a class in uni that dealt with Mythology and Kali was a discussion I enjoyed learning of why she was so angry I also learned about her from Smite
Not sure if anyone has commented this yet, but it’s really fascinating that tons of people have reported meeting this exact same entity in near-death-experiences and Dmt Trips. People who’ve never even heard of her or seen her have reported her perfectly down to the details 🤷🏼♂️. Crazy
Yes indeed, met her twice. Quite the wonderful being. Seemed kind and loving no matter her looks.
She came to me when I did too much LSD and forced me to clean up my life. She came to show me my inner demons and beat my azz (lovingly). I changed my life around after that. I'll never forget how hard and yet loving she was. Such strong rage, feminine violence. I'll never forget the feeling. She was not angry at me yet she was enraged, showing me to myself. Sh has been with me my whole life and to this day is one of my favorite energies. She seems to just come to me whenever I need her.
Dmt brought me here what a trip
Sexuality doesn't always involve sex itself, sometimes it just involves owning your own body and sexuality itself. It can be about being confident in yourself and loving your own body.
Indeed
I love this 💕💕💕
She is not about sexuality.
@@piyushjaiswal9283 Never said she was.
As I am progressing on my spiritual journey, practicing divination tools, reading up on universal laws and further developing my intuition, "gifts" and discernment, Kali comes up in some of my spreads and I thank her for helping me purify the negative energies that no longer serves me and opens me to positive energies and awakenings.
So this is what my dad named me......LOVE IT!!!!!! :3
Terry?
As in Terry Cruise?
Ey.
Lol no this isn't my yt account my name is Kali
I wouldn't be here if it weren't for her saving me.
She has many hands with weapons in all of them💯
To understand her by literal conversion of texts is almost impossible.
The westerners have a belief of core book as a doctrine must have. In Sanatan dharma, doctrinization is evil. Though that is allowed for productive purposes like knowledge sharing or special trainings like marshalarts or traditional cultural studies. Hence Sanatan dharma is not book centric. Veda is one of many books of guidances of Sanatan dharma. It's significance is not in it's script but kind of enlightenment it provides to the visualization capabilities of readers of Veda. So not all aspect of Sanatan dharma must be compared by Veda texts.
Kali is not mentioned in Veda. Few vedists compare a yakshini with figure of Kali as once they used to compare Indra with Bramha which was clarified by better ones.
Kali can be found in Bhagwati Purana. Yes Purana are older than Veda and are observations by visionaries predating to Vedas.
The conjunction of vision to favourable and beneficiary and only accounting the favour and benefits to outer attributes is a falasy/deceiving gesture of outlook towards the world.
Yes though it is thought in western and middle eastern culture that women and materials are made for beneficiary usage only and everything else including thunderstorms are all about punishments.
Well that's so sweet !!
But our way of vision is a bit more grown up. Because we are a knowledge centric culture. Hence we look for knowledge and well being even in what superficially may look horrible.
Because we recognized, horror as a byproduct of resistances of self. Most of which associates with our preferential orders. We are also enough evolved to accept that not all are for serving a preference. Infact it is this clash of preferences which is the source of all what is violent and impacts evil on civilizations.
This is so because the eternal reality in many forms taught us about the same with examples. Kali is one of those projection who taught us and teaches us to transcend that tininess of outlooks and visualization. Which would eventually open us up for each other and only self's associativity will no more be concerns of life. The tininess of self-centered view for everyone and everything had been the characters of all the devil's who are slayed by our Godliness like Goddes Kali.
Thus the first and most prominent reasons of Kali Worship is liberation from finiteness of thoughts and preferences. This is just 1 of billions of aspects of holiness showered by the Goddess.
Thanks and regards.
Saptarshi Banerjee. Thank you sir. Westerners are so used to refering to god as told by a book, they do the same with sanathana dharma. The vedas and all other scriptures are a means to an end, not the end. Thank you again. Jai Kali Maa.
Its not even real.
@Chaos Burrito Joan d' Arc says hi.
Sati wasn't even as prominent as you make it out to be. Like your name suggests, you are probably shitting out all of this misinformation after consuming one too many a burrito.
Chaos Burrito
Pls do yr reseach before making idiotic statements. There is absolutely no relation of sati to hinduism. The was some practise in places like nepal but those were limited to certain tribes. Stone incription from the 12th century shows this practise started during muslim invasion. Women rather than become slaves to the invaders used to immolate themselves. There are written documents by the muslim historians who used to call this act " jauhar"
Please go read up. Lots of info on this.
@Chaos Burrito people like you who comes after reading one antihindu article and thinks that they know everything should first search more about Sanatan dharm from correct resources. According to Sanatan dharm killing any living being is a sin,that's why suicide is also a sin. Those who kills themselves have to suffer a long cycle of life and death again and again. They don't get salvation easily. Thats why sati pratha is not something Sanatan dharm allows. Those are the corrupted rituals. India always suffered from the attacks of the foreign invaders. It was never stable. In ancient times women used to kill themselves to prevent themselves from the humiliation of slavery. With time this took a horrible form. People blindly follow any ritual without understanding it. Society was responsible for this.. This has nothing to do with the religion.
Please do more Hindu gods and goddesses
Do you interested in Hindu mythology
Please visit the following website for more information on the subject explained with scientific references :
decodehindumythology.blogspot.com/?m=1
@candlette 👍🏼 . The author of the above blog has written 3 famous books on Sanatan Dharma a.k.a. Hinduism.
@@RAHULSHARMA-xy5qh philosophy
To bite one's tongue, I've only heard it as to refrain from saying something. The idea of embarrassment and modesty, isn't too surprising, the above mention of biting your tongue would be to stop yourself from saying something embarrassing, modesty applied to one's ego, preventing you from bragging about your achievements, or yourself.
He bit her tongue after learning that she by mistake stepped on shiva.
That was made up by men to change her ferocity to fit a patriarchal image of women being weak/meek. She is not ashamed and has no reason to be. It is in passion and fulfilling of her desires that she sticks out her tongue, even to spite arrogant men who would try to enslave, domesticate, or control her. Think of the Maori, and other people who stick out their tongues before battle to intimidate and mock their enemies and show their spirit.
Please make more video about Hindu God's and goddess
Fascinating. So many facets to this beautiful Goddess.
As a practicing witch/wiccan who has followed Kali for years; I have to say thank you for a great and accurate video.
thanks bro I am Indian I am Hindu
thank bro you talk a Hindu mythology
I love Kali. She is always there for me.
We go through every deity as a phase or challenge. Now I gotta go. My elder sings in her sleep. She's my great grandmother and my mother.
The word Kali comes from the word Kala means time. She is the slayer of Kala the time. She is often worshipped by her devotee for Mukti or Moksha or Enlightenment. She is not just any mother. She is Laksmi (the goddess of wealth), she is Saraswati (the goddess of wisdom), she is Bhabatarini(the loving mother). She is Trigunakrita(three as one).
AWESOME!!! this just got you a subscriber and a notification. Thank you.
This video is relaxing and also educates without striking fear. I needed this.
I need her in my life more than anything now
Very powerful. She’s dancing on my wall.
What
Kali MAAAA
fuck you are fast
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Wow just figured that out
I like that she is fundamentally the angry, darker side of Parvati/Durga, as if the kind deity of life and righteous war had some kind of split personality disorder (not to offend the goddess, just pointing out what I find funny).
Yes bro you can forms like
Parvati maa is stable form of energy
Durga as increased energy
Kali as wildest & uncontrollableform of energy
Actually this is the case with most Hindu gods.
There aren't million of goddesses but different avatars and version of the same being interpreted in different ways which differs from community to community.
Like Tom cruise played Jerry McGuire, Ethan hunt, Jack reacher.
All these 3 character are badass in their own way buy at the end of the day all were played by Tom cruise.
Same way ram , Krishna, narsimha,etc are all avatar of Vishnu.
Omg that’s my daughters name 🤦🏽♀️
Redcoka Mixed she is amazing then
Redcoka Mixed shes got a good name then. Kali is female empowerment
I named my daughter Kali..as in california with a 'k' and then i discovered the goddess
@@mikewilled8331 what?? Lol Kali stopped fighting when Shiva said kill me before you kill others. Know the details man.
Redcoka Mixed haha 😊🌸💕🥰 lovely name and choice!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💯🌹
Yayy I was right, I like Kali because she is the grand creator & destroy. By the way first comment & first 👍 it was awesome 😎👍
@Feelefant Affenhand
I don't consider myself as a feminist & I do know that the lines between all of the God's are blurred some what, there isn't one God for this & one God for that in Hinduism. I actually like God's & Goddesses from around the world that has a duality to there personally.
@Feelefant Affenhand
Ok no probs 😎👍
Actually all gods and even the universe descends from one single source of energy. The energy that destroys universe is indeed Kaali and she is Shiva's consort. Similarly, many avatars and gods were born from Shiva's energy who all are basically assistants to him in dissolving universe. Or basically they are the same thing but have individual existence till they are separated
She is the only one who give me courage and everything next to Karthikya
I'm a Western human woman, so I know my response isn't the same as someone that grew up in, or practices the religion. I maintain that despite this, I am human and so must be allowed access to all things humans have produced. So, you are welcome to look at the ways Kali manifests in Western culture and society, or tell me how you see the Trinity...especially if you are able to see both the lotus feet and the abstract.
I look at Kali and I see so many ideas and concepts expressed. Fingerprints of so many human lives mark her stories. She has been seen and experienced in a multitude of times and hearts. Thus. I see her as both the expression of an inner state of being and as various aspects of that state of being. Multiplied by the billions of abstractions of that same force, and the billions that have been swept along in the times and tides of humankind. Those that looked at an instance and thought, "Ah, Kali."
I see her as the transitory state of a protective, murderous rage that can spring from having your loved ones in danger. Then, like soldiers with PTSD, whose urge to protect the ones they love, they can end up hurting themselves and their loved ones. Especially if they get in the habit of using force to solve every problem. Like countries that having experienced a war in protection of themselves and others and emerged victorious, are tempted to punish the losers into the ground. Or, feeling the reinvigoration caused by a victory, to become, for instance, too expansion, or production happy. Not killing and drinking blood exactly...
She's a female though, and emerges from a strong, peaceful, loving, nurturing female. Despite the change she remains female. Coming as she does from a Patriarchy, this is interesting to me. Is she also a warning to abusive people that the person you are abusing may take it on the chin when it comes to herself, hurt someone she loves, and boom! Then it takes someone they love to bring themselves back to themself.
1) Think of kali or maha kali as the energy of Brahman, her eternal (nirguna) form is formless, nameless and beyond attributes.
2) another interesting comparison of her role of energy that pervades everything on the multi verse is string theory were tiny vibrating strings of energetic vibrate at specific frequencies to take form as particles, wether bosons, fermions abs more exotic states - that energy is her
3) finally, kali actually means that which is the cause and beyond kaal or time
Thus she is immortal and exists beyond time and space
Thankyou for your video. This definitely gives me a much better view of humanity when used wrong.
This video was so exciting thank you and god bless
Are you nefartiti?
Minor criticism? Or perhaps something for you to consider, a suggestion at best.
Might I ask that you add a little text for the names of things you mention during the video, more so for words/names that have "questionable" spelling to the ears of viewers.
Simply put, things spoken don't always have an obvious spelling, the text for such things may be of some help for those that wish to look into things further.
All the same, love your videos, reasonable length and great, well researched content.
I love your videos I always learn something new💙 also can you please make some more occult/ Irish and Scottish mythology related videos, thank you 💙💙💙
Occult will always be a constant feature. I may tackle some Scottish mythology/history towards the end of the year!
Hindus literally don't take these stories as real, it's just the way of knowing other dimension of life... It is totally different from the way u tell a marvel cinematic stpries, these stories are meant for spiritual progress...there are lots of nuances which only indian local guy could explain....
Ankita Mishra The Marvel Cinematic Universe should not be used for spiritual growth.
@@jonathanwells223 felt bad for thor i respect him as he brings rains for poor farmers and cherishes their lives.
Well said
@@jonathanwells223 well Marvel is based deeply on Norse and Greek philosophies so...
LOL!!! I'm an idiot. I thought I heard you say 'Cardi B" near the beginning
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I did too🤣
Lol. I was drinking my morning coffee when I read your comment and literally spit it all over the counter. I had an image of a very cardi b looking goddess Kali enter my mind. I couldn't help it. It happened because your comment is funny.
she has Kali energy though, so it's probably not a coincidence
terence yup, she’s always sticking out her tongue like Kali
Thank you for this Video! great work love your content 😍🙏 please keep more of these coming!😍🙏
Another deep and esoteric concept missing here was the symbol of Kali standing on shiva. Kali represents the i (Shakti or energy) in shiva, without Kali shiva becomes shva which is Sanskrit for corpse. The nuance meaning here is that she represents the very energy within shiva and without her he is nothing more than an empty corpse. This pertains to their duality being maya ie illusion when they are one and the same
She is also goddess of magic and sorcery,Tantric (witchcraft) that's why she almost invoked by yogis, trantric.
She has similiar to lil bit greek goddess Hacate.
There is an Irish Celtic Goddess with those same qualities, she is called the Morrigan. She was also a War Goddess. Her animal familliar is the Crow, because in ancient times you would see crows feasting on the dead bodies of fallen warriors on the battlefield.
omg i resonate so much with Hecate, and always felt a connection to Kali. I thought i felt that way because i was scared of her lol.
@@labelledamedumanor4876 that's interesting
I will search more about that goddess
@@arwieshbabolall3205 yeah her warrior image is lil scary but she is also has a form call vadra kali more gentle one.
Hacate and kali share some common feature that's why when i learn about Hacate
I remember kali.
If you want to learn about her u can read 7 secrets of goddess by devdutt patnayak.
@@pranabjyotideka6265 seriously dude devdutt?
Never hurt a person who you know Kali takes care of. She is above time with her rage for enemies and love for her child unmatched. Not answerable to anyone. Jai ma Kali.
I love how often Smite art is used in these types of videos. It’s a tribute to how good the artist for the game really are.
She’s also the consort of shiva, which is why she calmed down upon stepping on him and her tongue sticks out and is bitten out of embarrassment. There is also a creation story of one of the forms of kali, bhadrakali who was created from a lock of shiva’s hair.
That is one of my niece's name
My daughters middle name is Kali, named for this strong Goddess.
Kali is the Great Mother, as protector
I was just thinking of Kali and bam! Thank you.
Thank you for sharing this valuable information I really appreciate this May God continue to bless. OmShanti
I'm eternally grateful for your channel! ❤️