Kali the Mother : essays on the Divine Mother written by Sister Nivedita in 1897. An article written by the manager of the Publication Dept. of Sri Ramakrishna Math & Mission, Belur Math, Kolkata, says, “Following the pilgrimage to Amarnāth, the Swami’s...meditation on Kāli became intense, & one day he had a vision of Her.... In a fever he groped in the dark for pencil & paper & wrote his famous poem ‘Kāli the Mother’; then he dropped to the floor, losing consciousness, while his soul soared into Bhāva-samādhi.”
... his part, had admired her distantly as the author of Kali the Mother, and now found in her a fiery spirit utterly consecrated to the cause of the liberation of Mother India from despotic foreign rule. They discussed neither spiritual questions nor Ramakrishna or Vivekananda; they saw themselves as fellow-votaries of Kali the Mother, as children of Bhavani Bharati, and this was the adamantine ...
... scientific works, such as Plant Response. Nivedita herself was a botanist. Sweet was her relationship with J. C. and his wife Lady Abala. "I was very much enamoured at the time of her book Kali the Mother," Sri Aurobindo wrote in a note, "and I think we spoke of that; she had heard, she said, that I was a worshipper of Force,—'believed in strength and was a worshipper of Kali' —by which she meant... that spoke, her true personality that came out. Her whole mind and life expressed itself thus. Yoga was yoga but revolutionary work it was that seemed intended for her. That is fire! Her book, Kali the Mother, is very inspiring but revolutionary and not at all non-violent......There was no non-violence about her." Gandhi once criticized Nivedita, reported Nirod, as being volatile and mercurial; ...
... Nivedita visited Baroda in 1902 to give some lectures. Sri Aurobindo went to the station to receive her. She had heard of him as a worshipper of Kali and Sri Aurobindo had appreciated her book Kali, the Mother. Nivedita had an interview with the Maharaja at which Sri Aurobindo was present. She tried to persuade the Maharaja to support the revolutionary movement but he merely said he would send his... It was her very soul that spoke. Whenever we met we spoke about politics and revolution. But her eyes showed a power of concentration and revealed a capacity for going into trance. Her book Kali, the Mother is revolutionary and not at all non-violent.' ‘What about Barin,' we interposed, 'he was also fiery?' ‘But not like Nivedita. She was fire, if you like. She did India a tremendous service ...
... and Nivedita were already known to one another through their writing, as well as through their bond in their love of India 49 and of freedom. To Aurobindo Ghosh, Nivedita was the author of Kali, the Mother. To her, he was the leader of the future, 50 whose fiery articles in the Indu Prakash... had sounded opening guns in the coming struggle, four years before. "What he (Sri Aurobindo)... very soul, her true personality that came out. Her whole mind and life expressed itself thus. Yoga was Yoga but revolutionary work it was that seemed intended for her. That is fire! Her book. Kali, the Mother, is very inspiring but revolutionary and not at all non-violent. "She went about the Thakurs of Rajputana, trying to preach to them revolution. At that time everybody wanted some kind ...
... heard of me as one who believed in strength and was a worshipper of Kali, by which she meant she had heard of me as a revolutionary. I knew her already because I had read and admired her book, 'Kali the Mother'. It was in those days that we formed a friendship. After I had started my revolutionary work in Bengal through certain emissaries, I went there personally to see and arrange things myself.... she used to speak on revolution, it was her very soul, her true personality, that came out.... Yoga was Yoga, but it was that sort of work that was, as it were, intended for her. Her book, 'Kali the Mother' is very inspiring. She went about among the Thakurs of Rajputana trying to preach revolution to them.... Her eyes showed a power of concentration and revealed a capacity for going into trance ...
... scene. Shiva, Mahadeva himself, taking Mahakali’s tremendous power upon him! Once while taking the French class in the Playground, the Mother spoke at length about the different forms of Kali. The Mother had once gone for a drive by the sea near Ariancouppam. After travelling a little distance She asked that the car be stopped. But She did not get out of the car. Suddenly an awfully black, f... temple. One day someone asked the Mother: “What plane does this Kali belong to?” The Mother answered: “The most material vital plane.” Then someone else asked: “Why is she called Kali?” The Mother continued: I don’t know. It is one of the Kalis—I have a vague impression that the head was cut off or that she was buried up to the neck or I don’t know what. Something like that. There is ...
... movements, in every great mass of human action it is the Spirit of the Time, that which Europe calls the Zeitgeist and India Kala, who expresses himself. The very names are deeply significant. Kali, the Mother of all and destroyer of all, is the Shakti that works in secret in the heart of humanity manifesting herself in the perpetual surge of men, institutions and movements, Mahakala the Spirit within ...
... remain very long on this earth. On October 13, 1911, she passed away in Darjeelng. Among her books, the best known is The Master as I saw Him, a book on Swami Vivekananda. She wrote also Kali the Mother, Shiva and Buddha, Cradle Tales of Hinduism and Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists. Page 77 ...
... very soul, her true personality that came out. Her whole mind and life expressed itself thus. Yoga was Yoga, but it was revolutionary work that seemed intended for her. That is fire! Her book, Kali the Mother , is very inspiring but revolutionary and not at all non-violent. She went about among the Thakurs of Rajputana trying to preach to them revolution. At that time everybody wanted some kind of ...
... awaken his artistic consciousness. In any case, it is clear that every Indian will be indebted to her forever. You should all read her books - The Web of Indian Life, The Cradle-Tales of Hinduism, Kali the Mother and The Master as I Saw Him." "Did she have any spiritual realisations?" asked Amal. "She must have had, but we never discussed them. We were busy with politics and revolution. But looking ...
... "diminish in force and be finally dispelled". Such was the calm assurance he gave to the First of his disciples, the great Collaborator who was to become the marvellous executrix, the Shakti, the Kali, the Mother of Sri Aurobindo's supramental Yoga. Page 410 V The grounding on Unity, the turning of the whole being into an engine of Power to serve the ends of Purusha or Krishna ...
... Bengali film, Rani Rasmani, about the rich widow of that name and Ramakrishna Paramhamsa. In 1847, this lady had the Kali temple built where Ramakrishna passed his later years in adoration of Kali, the Mother. The temple is still a much visited place of pilgrimage. The Mother saw all films at the Playground together with the young and the adult Ashramites. ‘Then I have really understood — for it ...
... top-heavy dome and praised the Dharmashala near it. Khaserao stared at [her] and opined that she must be at least slightly cracked to have such ideas! I was very much enamoured at the time of her book Kali the Mother and I think we spoke of that; she had heard, she said, that I was a worshipper of Force, by which she meant that I belonged to the secret revolutionary party like herself and I was present at her ...
... me as one who "believed in strength and was a worshipper of Kali" by which she meant that she had heard of me as a revolutionary. I knew of her already because I had read and admired her book "Kali the Mother". It is in these days that we formed our friendship. After I had started my revolutionary work in Bengal through certain emissaries, I went there personally to see and arrange things myself. I ...
... as one who 'believed in strength and was a worshipper of Kali' by which she meant that she had heard of me as a revolutionary. I knew of her already because I had read and admired her book Kali the Mother . It was in these days that we formed our friendship. After I had started my revolutionary work in Bengal through certain emissaries, I went there personally to see and arrange things myself ...
... missionary spirit that had animated her own great Master, Swami Vivekananda, Page 338 and Sri Aurobindo glimpsed in her the Shakti that had made her the inspired author of Kali, the Mother. Returning to Bengal, she gave sustained support to him in his secret work, and in 1903 he appointed her a member of the controlling revolutionary committee of five; and during his first short ...
... determined sadhak was destined to fare forward and storm the gates of Victory. Such was the assurance Mirra received, - Mirra the great collaborator in Sri Aurobindo's work, Mirra the Shakti, the Kali, the Mother-to-be of his integral supramental Yoga and of his great Yogashram at Pondicherry. IV The Richards spent about four years in Japan, mainly in Tokyo (1916-17) and Kyoto (1917-20) ...
... Then I swept everything away, cut off the current. And I was king everywhere. × Tara: another name of Kali, the Mother of the world × Based on a Bengali song ...
... breaking up of the old rigid world. It is a necessity for the ultimate good of earth and even man. The work has started – call it the dance of Shiva, the tandava or the dance of Kali the fierce Mother – it has started and is proceeding faster and faster on its way. Destruction, dissolution, decomposition – yes that is the first result and we are already witnessing and participating in it... of destruction and dissolution – to clear the path of Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati, – the infinite, love and compassion of Maheshwari sanctions and supports it. The new creation, the new world that Mother built and is still building with so much love and care is ready – ready to manifest, to reveal itself in the material field, waiting for materialising on earth, but earth is not yet ready, rather man... falsehood and croockedness. Perhaps truth is too bright too compelling for his egoistic nature and obscure make-up – so he denies, obstructs as much as he can the new consciousness, the new reality. Mother out of her infinite love tried to take this denial on her own self, tried to convince and change as many elements as was possible – then, when nothing more could be done She withdrew leaving the field ...
... breaking up of the old rigid world. It is a necessity for the ultimate good of earth and even of man. The work has started—call it the dance of Shiva, the t ā ndava, or the dance of Kali the fierce Mother—it has started and it is proceeding faster and faster on its way. Destruction, dissolution, decomposition—yes, that is the first result and we are already witnessing and participating in it... The Mother Abides - Final Reflections The Great Holocaust - Chhinnamasta Throughout the ages whenever there has been a new creation on earth or the manifestation of a new consciousness in the earthly atmosphere, it was always preceded by a stage of destruction and dissolution of the old. The dance of Shiva has two aspects—the bliss of creation and the joy of... of destruction and dissolution, to clear the path for Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati; the infinite love and compassion of Maheshwari sanctions and supports it. The new creation, the new world that Mother built and is still building Page 56 with so much love and care is ready, ready to manifest, to reveal itself in the material field, waiting to materialise itself on earth. But the ...
... more and more complete spirituality. As Sri Aurobindo says, "One can see how powerfully Kalidasa's poetry must have prepared the national mind for the religion of the Puranas, for the worship of Kali, our Mother and of Sri Krishna of Vrindavan, our soul's Paramour." Although Kumarsambhava contains seventeen sargas or cantos, it is admitted by most critics that only the first eight cantos are... pointed at Him. Although she is the great goddess, in order to take her right place on Shiva's lap she has to give up entirely what she was. What a paradox that for conquering the supreme Soul the divine Mother must throw herself into the fire of sacrifice! Even for her, there was a price to pay, as it were. Thus this "supreme fable" conceals a great lesson in human life and demonstrates the nature of action... has also all the fragility of a young girl protected from the coarseness of the world by the tender care of loving parents. When she resolves to undertake tapasya, (so frightening a decision that her mother is said to have exclaimed U Ma! "Don't!" — a cry supposedly at the-origin of Parvati's other name Uma), she does it with a fierce determination, but this austere discipline does not make her lose any ...
... dark god and a dark goddess—Krishna and Kali. Krishna is dark, his is the deep blue of the sky. Kali is dark, hers is the blackness of the earthly night. The Vaishnava poet and saint sang: Oh, I love black, For black is the tamal tree, black is Krishna, Oh , how I love black. Ramprasad the Bhakta thus speaks of Kali, his dark Mother: the poem itself is very dark, that is to... black ? Many are the forms of blackness, But here is a very marvel of blackness. If you hold it in your heart, the lotus there shall bloom and burn bright— Oh, she is dark and her name is Mother Darkness: She is blacker than blackness. But one who has seen that beauty is lost for good, He will have no eye for any other beauty. Are the moderns on the same track as these ...
... dark god and a dark goddess— Krishna and Kali. Krishna is dark, his is the deep blue of the sky. Kali is dark, hers is the blackness of the earthly night. The Vaishnava poet and saint sang: Oh, I love black, For black is the tamal tree, black is Krishna, Oh, how I love black. Ramprasad the Bhakta thus speaks of Kali, his dark Mother: the poem itself is very dark, that is... the forms of blackness, But here is a very marvel of blackness. If you hold it in your heart, the lotus there shall bloom and burn bright— Oh, she is dark and her name is Mother Darkness: She is blacker than blackness. Page 78 But one who has seen that beauty is lost for good, He will have no eye for any other beauty. Are the ...
... dark god and a dark goddess - Krishna and Kali. Krishna is dark, his is the deep blue of the sky. Kali is dark, hers is the blackness ofthe earthly night. The Vaishnava poet and saint sang: Oh, I love black, For black is the tamal tree, black is Krishna, Oh, how I love black. Ramprasad the Bhakta thus speaks of Kali, his dark Mother: the poem itself is very dark, that is to... Many are the forms of blackness, But here is a very marvel of blackness. If you hold it in your heart, the lotus there shall bloom and burn bright - Oh, she is dark and her name is Mother Darkness: She is blacker than blackness. But one who has seen that beauty is lost for good, He will have no eye for any other beauty. Are the moderns on the same track as these ...
... not ready! ( silence ) It will take another few hundred years. Terrible.... ( Mother raises her arms ) Well, it will take a few hundred years. Oh, but in that case, I'd prefer Kali! ( Mother laughs ) People don't understand. Things have to follow a comfortable little path. ( Mother draws meandering paths in the air ) That way, they understand. Well. ( silence ) Page... call for, Mother: a great inspired man. Ah! That's what you should call for. But I've been calling him for a long time. Yes, Mother, a great inspired man with physical strength. Yes, oh, yes! It has to be someone physically solid. Oh, yes! Page 128 ( Mother looks, then goes within for a long time ) All the time, day and night, like this ( Mother holds her... the true word. Yes, but who's going to give it to them? Well, I don't know, Mother. If I had the power, I would do it willingly. But the miracle is still possible with these people. Yes. Yes, but... there has to be someone to say it. Yes, there should be a Vivekananda for Sri Aurobindo. ( Mother laughs, very amused ) And their reversal could be effected swiftly and easily, I'm ...
... the United Nations has acted from a single motive, because they were dreadfully scared of a general war—of course, this blocks the vision. We'll see. But I believe in Kali, Mother. My only hope now is really in Kali: Kali's force striking. I can't imagine any other possibility. ( Silence ) This man who is heading Pakistan doesn't represent the whole of Pakistan. There is a whole part of Pakistan... do." It seems there was a sense of tremendous effort ( laughing ): "This is all I have managed to do." The world isn't ready. That's the worst part. The world isn't ready. So then, if it is Kali, it means everything back to the melting pot, and with the means at their disposal, that may mean having to start the whole civilization from scratch again—how many centuries wasted? What has come... But I mean that according to my vision (which I don't think is mine, it's not a personal vision), nights and days like yesterday (which aren't pleasant) obviously give you a knowledge, and upheaval [Kali] still belongs to the old method—it's accepting that the world hasn't changed. While this sort of Page 256 apparent shrinking is in fact perhaps the proof that the earth consciousness has ...
... or takes to itself and is Rudra or Shiva. The supreme Energy beneficent in upholding and protection is or else formulates itself as the Mother of the worlds, Luxmi or Durga. Or beneficent even in the mask of destruction, it is Chandi or it is Kali, the dark Mother. The One Godhead manifests himself in the form of his qualities in various names and godheads. The God of divine love of the Vaishnava, ...
... to the Rome of its longing, the dwelling of the Most High God. One can see how powerfully Kalidasa's poetry must have prepared the national mind for the religion of the Puranas, the worship of Kali, Our Mother & of Srikrishna, of Vrindavun, our soul's Paramour. Here indeed lies his chief claim to rank with Valmekie & Vyasa as one of our three national poets, in that he gathered the mind-life of the... the heart of a mother. Constance, the pathetic mother, is a fitting pendant to Arthur, the pathetic child, as insincere and falsely drawn a portraiture, as obviously dressed up for the part. Indeed throughout the meagre and mostly unsympathetic list of mothers in Shakespeare's otherwise various & splendid gallery there is not even one in whose speech there is the throbbing of a mother's heart; the sacred... expresses the true Page 230 sentiment of motherhood with sweetness & truth if not with passion. Ayus & Urvasie in this play were certainly not intended for the dramatic picture of mother & child; this mother has abandoned her child to the care of strangers; this child is new to the faces of his parents. Such a situation might easily have been made harsh and unsympathetic but for the fine dramatic ...
... class and she did not object. Mother herself arranged vases with flowers and asked me to photograph them. On the Ashtami, Dasami, Lakshmi Puja and Kali Puja days Mother used to give special blessings. I took photos of Mother on these occasions. Mother had consented to these photos being taken only because of Dr. Sanyal's enthusiasm. However, Mother told me very clearly the photos that... was a happy moment with Mother. It was named the 'Vegetable Darshan'. This gentleman from Bombay came and placed the barbell there. Mother asked: "What's this?" "Mother, it's a barbell. I'll exercise with it." Mother said: "No, no, you mustn't. All those who exercise with heavy instruments have short lives. You mustn't." With these remarks Mother asked Udar to take it ... With these words Mother quietly slipped some money into my hand saying: "Go, and secretly give this money to the lady and tell her that when Mother asks she should indicate what she'd like to have." I did as told. When she came to receive Mother's Page 52 blessings the next day she gave the money to Mother and requested her for a ring. Mother gave the money to Dyuman-bhai ...
... = the Divine Consciousness-Power. Chit-Shakti. King = the ignorant being (Purusha) that normally rules the ignorant nature. 7. 64. squares = fullness, integrality of life. Kali, Mother Nature, is said to have 64 yoginis, powers and instruments. There are also 64 arts (kalas) embellishing a full life. XIII The threefold adherence is... the very sap of the lotus. What I cast upward, my love, cannot be kept down here below.³ Climb towards the jewel centre and enter into the beyond. The room of the mother-in-law is under lock and key Cut away the wings, the sun and the moon.6 Gundari says I am a heroic reveller Between the man and the woman the victory banner is uplifted... earth. 4. Jewel Centre – the highest centre at the top of the head representing the highest seat of mind beyond which is the Vast and Infinite Consciousness. 5. Mother-in-law – ordinary consciousness. 6. Sun and Moon – day and night, the cycle of ordinary consciousness. 7. Purusha and Prakriti in right relation means the victory of the Supreme ...
... call from the soul and a sufficient point of support in the mind." [9] One of the silk sarees she embroidered and offered to the Mother, had a stream of the flower Divine’s love . A life-size photograph of the Mother wearing it on 25 th October 1954 (Kali Puja day), stands in the ground floor Meditation Hall. [10] Amma also embroidered sarees with the flowers Grace and Realisation... [7] In those days, sadhaks permitted by the Mother received copies of some of her prayers and meditations. [8] The full commentary is found in Complete Works of Kapali Sastriar. [9] SABCL, Vol. 20, pp.74-75. [10] On Kali Puja days, Mother distributed blessings-packets with petals of Divine’s... and the Mother — an interview and meditation, its only external expression. Rukmini and Amma were among those allowed to cook a few dishes for Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo was very fond of Amma’s lemon rice preparation. Amma’s mother sometimes sent a basket of fruits for Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The Mother always sent down some to them, and told Amma what to reply when her mother asked ...
... that! (Laughing) Okay. So she's really terrible, that Kali. So Mother says to me, "Oh, you know, today is Kali's day. Do you know Kali?" I look at Mother without a word, with a slight smile. And Mother starts taking on Kali's appearance – that terrible appearance, you know. A Power that anybody who... (you know Ramakrishna, who worshipped Kali?), well, anybody would have been crushed by that Force... maybe face powder for the ashramites... (laughter) . It was my job. And in comes Mother. She stops in front of me and says, "Well, I am going downstairs. It's Kali's day." And she started to... Towarnicki: But who is Kali? (Laughing) Kali is the terrible Mother, who wears the heads of human beings and demons around her neck – heads that she herself has severed. She is completely black... invoke the divinities – Durga, Kali, Lakshmi, and all the goddesses – and we worship them. Page 160 Well, at a certain period in the ashram, on those days, Mother would come downstairs to meet people, and she would give her blessings to everybody. One of those days, just before the celebration of Kali, I was working in a room, not far from where Mother was, making God knows what, maybe ...
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