The love between the Divine Mother and her human children is a unique relationship

"My child, you need not know much in order to please Me. Only Love Me dearly. Speak to me, as you would talk to your mother, if she had taken you in her arms."

The love between the Divine Mother and her human children is a unique relationship. Kali, the Dark Mother is one such deity with whom devotees have a very loving and intimate bond, in spite of her fearful appearance. In this relationship, the worshipper becomes a child and Kali assumes the form of the ever-caring mother.

Kali is represented with perhaps the fiercest features amongst all the world's deities. She has four arms, with a sword in one hand and the head of a demon in another. The other two hands bless her worshippers, and say, "fear not"! Her tongue protrudes from her mouth, her eyes are red, and her face sullied with blood. Her black complexion symbolises her all-embracing and transcendental nature. "Just as all colors disappear in black, so all names and forms disappear in her". Her nudity is primeval, fundamental, and transparent like Nature ~ the earth, sea, and sky. Kali is free from the illusory covering, for she is beyond all maya or "false consciousness."

Kali's garland of fifty human heads that stands for the fifty letters of the Sanskrit alphabet, symbolizes infinite knowledge. Her girdle of severed human hands signifies work and liberation from the cycle of karma. Her white teeth show her inner purity, and her red lolling tongue indicates her omnivorous nature, "her indiscriminate enjoyment of all the world's 'flavors'." Her sword is the destroyer of false consciousness and the eight bonds that bind us.
Her three eyes represent past, present, and future, the three modes of time, an attribute that lies in the very name Kali. Kali is so called because She devours Kala (Time) and then resumes Her own dark formlessness. Kali's proximity to cremation grounds where the five elements or "Pancha Mahabhuta" come together and all worldly attachments are absolved, again point to the cycle of birth and death. The reclined Shiva lying prostrate under the feet of Kali suggests that without the power of Kali (Shakti), Shiva is inert. 🙏🏻✨👁🌙💀🐍🐚🔔🌀✨📿🕉🙏🏻

Jai Maa Kali ~ Jai ShivaShankar! 🙏🏻✨❤️🙏🏻