https://padlet.com/mmgoflin/xr01nqqkozg8 Hindu goddess en-us 2017-02-01 17:41:26 UTC 2017-05-17 01:53:37 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Planets.png mmgoflin https://padlet.com/mmgoflin/xr01nqqkozg8/wish/150920095 Kali comes from the Sanskrit root word which is Kal and kal means time....Kali is a hindu goddess that is one of the most misunderstood Hindu goddesses. Kali is the goddess of enlightenment or liberation but is commonly mistaken for something else which is sexuality, violence, and death. For example the Encyclopedia Britannica is grossly mistaken with what the goddess truly stands for as in the following quote they state that she is a, "Major Hindu goddess whose iconography (meaning images used in art work) cult, and mythology commonly associate her with death, sexuality, violence, and, paradoxically (meaning seemingly absurd or to contradict). in some of her later historical appearances, motherly love was used to describe her. now It is partly correct to say Kali is somewhat a goddess of death, but in of the stories describing her it claimed that she brings the death of the ego as the illusory self-centered view of reality. Nowhere in the Hindu stories is Kali seen killing anything but demons, nor is she associated specifically with the process of human dying like the Hindu god Yama who really is the god of death. She is not to worship death but rather she is to show the I-am-the-body idea which is kinda like a you are beyond space and time mind set,using the i am the body idea she uses it by reinforcing the awareness that the body is a temporary condition. Shiva (which is another god) and Kali are said to inhabit these places because it is our attachment to the body that gives rises or boosts to the ego. Shiva and Kali grant liberation by removing the illusion of the ego. Thus we are the eternal i am and not the body. This is underscored by the scene of the cremation grounds.]]> 2017-02-01 17:43:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mmgoflin/xr01nqqkozg8/wish/150920095