Kali Maa is without beginning, changeless, yet also considered as origin of all, so thought of as the primordial power or Adya Shakti from which this spiritual aspirant and ardent devotee of Maa or Mother has received her name.
Kali is one with Kala or ‘time’ in their eternal and intrinsic dance in the hall of mirrors that changes everything it touches, yet ever remains unchanged. Kali Maa is the annihilating principle of time, helping us evolve towards a more holistic view of time. Her sometimes wrathful appearance or visceral destructive nature only serves the soul in its ability to jolt or shock, peel back or strip bare, exposing, and eventually severing the bonds of the illusionary aspect of the transient, limited, and linear; in order to unveil reality in its eternal glory and infinite joy.
Kali Maa has been portrayed as an Indian and Pan Asian Goddess whose syncretism has been absorbed and widely transplanted throughout the modern world. Goddess, Devi, Shakti may be synonymous, although Kali Maa doesn’t fit the typical canon of the western goddess, nor is She really accepted or understood in the west, cannot easily be placated, or be known or described by words alone, kindly fitting into common terms, labels or classifications. Any means to attempt to do so may be like trying to reel in the unnameable, to surf the big wave of involutionary and evolutionary tides—of the impossible balancing act of tempering condensation and decompression, or how life seemingly moves through the gate of becoming and out again—and a dynamically beautiful and tumultuous energy without space or reference.
From the crest of that wave is great knowledge that will most likely change our understanding of ‘knowledge’, or what is said to be ten or more distinct wisdom attributes of Shakti or Goddess forms, known collectively as Mahavidyas, each a resplendent function of the whole that emerges from Kali, and She is also the first. Immeasurable beauty may be more than delicate, fragile, and tender, She is also ferocious, wild, intense, and a wielder of the source of all power and abundance, stirring something in us that maybe has remained unknown, or we would rather not know; typified as shadow, and casting its stark opposite.
All works contained on this site, unless otherwise specified, were conceived or captured by Adya Maa, who is the artist, poet, medium or instrument for the work to be heard, scribbled, rendered, deciphered, assembled and shared. All flaws belong to her, and do not reflect the awe-inspiring grace of Goddess. The poetry was perceived or received in some form or another during periods of semi-retreat, intensive sadhana or self-imposed exile.
The challenge is always to capture where:
the inaudible fluidity of form becomes heard or
‘words’ turn back from whence they came,
as the shuttle of the weaver unravels
calling on the language of emptiness,
speaking symphony of silence,
who is the true author—Adya Shakti.
a Sadhika’s Journal is thus born.
If you find yourself here, perhaps something speaks to you, we are social creatures and there is a need to share the experience on the path, not “my experience,” but to share in, relish or delight in experience, where all belong.
Namaste Pilgrim!
