Because, she, as Shakti, is the equal Half of the Supreme. Shiva is also called Shaktimaan, the wielder of His own Maya. Therefore this portrayal encapsulates the great teaching that God also plays out the Lila of getting trampled by Maya before He regains His original position alongside her as The Lord Himself.
Aum Namah Shivaya. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Username or Email Address. Search Search for: Search. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Search for: Search. Hey there! Tantra is to have such mastery over the system that you can dismantle life completely and put it back again. You can have such mastery over life that life and death are both so completely in your hands, that you can dismantle life and put it back again.
You can even kill the Divine and bring him back. This is not a feat that you are trying to show off to somebody. It is because you want to have such mastery over life. Unless you have some mastery over life, you cannot do anything. Everyone has some mastery over life.
Otherwise, what could you do? The level of mastery that you have determines how much you can do. The image of Kali standing on Shiva essentially symbolizes having total mastery over the process of life. It means that you can kill God himself and then give life back to him. That is how the technology of tantra is. Skip to content. Related Content. The demon soldiers, led by Raktabija, came forth and the gods trembled with outrage.
The demons ravaged the earth and its inhabitants. Who would rid the world of this monster? In desperation the gods turned to their Shakti female energy counterparts. The great and beautiful goddess Durga stepped forward. She had protected them before and was obliged to do it again. Armed with the weapons of the gods, Durga rode into battle on a tiger, her champion mount.
She switched goddess forms many time during battle, slaying demon soldiers as quickly as they advanced until all that remained was the demon-general. The battle between Raktabija and the Devi ensued. From each drop of blood a thousand more demons like him sprang up.
Demons advanced on the goddess by the thousands. They rode on elephants and horse drawn chariots. Upon seeing this, Durga became enraged. She knitted her brows in absolute fury. From this concentration came Kali, the Terrible One. The whole universe shook with the thundering roar of this powerfully terrible goddess. Those demons who stood nearest the mighty Devi were consumed within the roaring rage of energy. Kali emerged, naked except for a covering of tiger skin.
Her skin was of the deepest black, and hung loosely on Her bones. This mad skeleton of a hag was armed with a skull topped staff, a noose, and the sword of Vengeance. She appeared most frightening with her blood red eyes,sunken deep into her skull, wild with raw power anxious to be unleashed and a third eye flaming brilliantly from her forehead. Her entangled black hair blew wildly about Her shoulders. She turned her furious gaze upon the demon armies, half fell lifeless from the deadly grip of Her stare.
With wild cackling, She advanced on Her enemies. She reached out with her claw-like hands and shoveled some of the remaining demons into her gaping mouth. The rest turned away in fear of this ferocious Devi. The skies were filled with the sound of Her shrieking laughter.
She stretched out Her bright red tongue and swallowed all of the elephants and their riders as they tried to run. The horse drawn chariots disappeared with another mouthful into the abyss of Dark Goddess. With his armies fully destroyed, again the great Devi faced off with Raktabija. Kali pierced the demon in the side and quickly caught the flowing blood with her tongue and drank it greedily.
The life energy of Rakatibija flowed out with his dripping blood like wine from a bottle. This time he was not given the chance to raise more demons from his blood.
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