Kali- The Goddess of Death and Life

Paintings by Rajee Ba at Yogada in the Himalayas.

Kali- The Goddess of Death and Life

The Hindus’ imagination regarding goddess Kali is unique. No other community on this earth is more imaginative, more poetic, than Hindus. Their poetry is very deep. Have you ever seen the statue of Kali? She is the mother and death also; kal means death – so her name is Kali. And she is the mother, so she is a woman. She is beautiful, beautiful like a mother. Nobody else can be as beautiful as the mother. Even if one’s own mother is ugly, she seems beautiful. Nobody thinks in terms of the beauty of the mother, but the mother is beautiful – because if you see your mother as ugly, then that means that you are ugly because you are her expansion. So Kali is beautiful, very beautiful! But around her neck, she is wearing a garland of human heads. She is beautiful, but she is Kali – Kal, death! Western thinkers are puzzled over this symbol. They wonder why a woman should be depicted so horribly, so terrifyingly. And you call her mother also! How frightening! It is horrible because death starts from the one who gives birth. It is terrible because death has arrived along with birth. The mother has given death as well as life. So on one side, she is as beautiful as the mother, as the source, and on the other end, she is like kal, death, as dark as death. Around her neck is a garland of human heads; in her hand, she is holding a severed head, blood dripping, and she is standing with her feet on her husband. One gets free of the mother as soon as you see death because the mother means life. Mother means the one who brought you into this world. Death means that which will take you away.

This is a very deep symbol: woman as life and as death too! – because death comes from where life comes; these two are the two sides of the same coin. And nobody else on this earth realized this fact as the Hindus have done. When Shankara became aware of death… Whether he was really caught by the crocodile or not should be asked by the silly historians; I am just not interested in it. What difference does it make whether he was caught by a crocodile or not? But one thing is definite – that he saw death and when he saw death, the Bairgya happens. One cannot escape from Bairgya ( Seeing life from a distance and letting it go) after seeing death.

Then you remain stunned, wherever you are. Then life cannot be the same as it was just a moment before this realization. The ambition, the fame, the reputation – everything loses its charm. Death destroys everything. One has to die, so it doesn’t matter whether one dies earlier or later – today, tomorrow or the day after – it is just a matter of time. If my death has to happen, then it has already happened right now. And the arrow of death will pierce you in such a way that you will not be able to be what you were before now. This new change in you is Bairgya. The instinct to see life from a different and meaningful perspective.

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Ref/with : Statues of kaii in Ancient India at Temple of Murshidabad ( Bangla Desh and in Rajraheswar temple.
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Paintings by RAJEE Ba at Yogada

Paintings by RAJEE Ba at Yogada in the Himalayas – Rishikesh (India ) :

Me: With different faces in different times.
Every one of us lives a closed life, lives in our own different world. There is not one world around us, there are as many worlds as there are minds. Each mind has its own world and is there in every new world. For different worlds, we have different faces and every time the last world takes over the new. We never live fully in the present.
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Paintings by RAJEE Ba at Yogada in the Himalayas

Paintings by RAJEE Ba at Yogada in the Himalayas – Rishikesh (India ) :

Sahasrar: Pure Eternal Bliss in Peace

The Highest State of being as a Human Being.

The spine has two ends: the beginning is the sex center and the end is sahasra, the seventh center at the top of the head. The beginning of the spine is attached to the earth, and sex is the most earthly thing in you. From the beginning center in your spine you are in contact with nature, with what Sankhya has called prakriti – the earth, the material. From the last center, or the second pole, sahasrar, in the head, you are in contact with the divine. These are the two poles of your existence. First is sex and second is the sahasrar. There is no word for sahasrar in English. These are the two poles. Either your life will be sex oriented or sahasrar oriented. Either your energy will be owing down from the sex center back to the earth, or your energy will be released from the sahasrar into the cosmos. From the sahasrar you ow into the brahman, into the absolute Existence. From sex you ow down into the relative existence. These are the two ows, the two possibilities. Unless you start owing upwards, your misery will never end. You may have glimpses of happiness, but only glimpses – and very illusory ones.

When the energy starts moving upwards you will have more and more real glimpses. And once it reaches the sahasrar and is released from there, you will have the absolute bliss with you. That is nirvana. Then there is no glimpse; you become the bliss itself. So the whole thing for Yoga and Tantra is how to move energy upwards through the vertebrae, through the spinal column, how to help it move against gravity. Sex is very easy because it follows gravitation. The earth is pulling everything down, back; your sex energy is pulled by the earth. You may not have heard it, but astronauts have felt this – that the moment they move beyond the earth’s gravity they don’t feel much sexuality. As the body loses weight, sexuality dissolves, disappears.

The earth is pulling your life energy down and this is natural because the life energy comes from the earth. You eat food and you are creating life energy within you; it comes from the earth, and the earth is pulling it back. Everything goes to its source. And if it continues to move in this way, life energy going back again and again, and you are moving in a circle, you will go on moving for lives and lives. You can go on moving this way innitely unless you take a jump just like the astronauts. Like the astronauts, you have to take a jump and move beyond the circle. Then the pattern of earth’s gravitation is broken. It can be broken!

The techniques for how it can be broken are here – for how the energy can move vertically and rise up within you, reaching new centers; for how new energies can be revealed within you, making you a new person with every move. And the moment the energy is released from your sahasrar, the opposite pole of sex, you are no more man. Then you don’t belong to this earth; you have become divine. That is what is meant when we say Krishna is God or Buddha is God. Their bodies are just like yours – their bodies will have to fall ill and they will have to die – everything happens in their bodies as it happens to you. Only one thing is not happening in their bodies which is happening to you: the energy has broken the gravitation pattern. But that you cannot see, it is not visible to your eyes.

But sometimes when you are sitting by the side of a master, you can feel this. Suddenly you feel an upsurge of energy within you, and your energy starts moving upwards. Only then do you know that something has happened. Just by being in contact with a buddha ( A Guru Yogi) your energy begins to move upwards towards the sahasrar. A Buddha ( Guru Yogi ) is so powerful that even the earth is less powerful; it cannot pull your energy downwards. Those who have felt this around a Jesus, a Buddha, a Krishna, have called them God.

The other 2 pictures in here are 5th Centaury Budha in Sanchi stupa , Centra lndia

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Paintings by RAJEE Ba at Yogada in the Himalayas – Rishikesh (India ) : Birth of Budha

According to the legends about BUDHA's birth, the newborn began to walk seven steps forward and at each step, a lotus flower appeared on the ground.

The story goes .........…. About ten months after her dream of a white elephant and the sign that she would give birth to a great leader, Queen Maya was expecting her child. One day she went to the king and said, "My dear, I have to go back to my parents. My baby is almost due." Since it was the custom in India for a wife to have her baby in her father's house, the king agreed, saying, "Very well, I will make the necessary arrangements for you to go." The king then sent soldiers ahead to clear the road and prepared others to guard the queen as she was carried in a decorated palanquin. The queen left Kapilavatthu in a long procession of soldiers and retainers, headed for the capital of her father's kingdom. (Relief depicting Queen Maya found in Borobudur Temple - Central Java, Indonesia) the 2nd is the Sculpture of Budha's mother dreaming.

On the way to the Koliya country, the great procession passed a garden called Lumbini Park. This garden was near the kingdom called Nepal, at the foot of the Himalayan mountains. The beautiful park with its sala trees and scented flowers and busy birds and bees attracted the queen. Since the park was a good resting place, the queen ordered the bearers to stop for a while. As she rested underneath one of the sala trees, her birth began and a baby boy was born. It was an auspicious day. The birth took place on a full moon (which is now celebrated as Vesak, the festival of the triple event of Buddha's birth, enlightenment, and death), in the year 623 B.C.

After the birth of her baby son, Queen Maha Maya immediately returned to Kapilavatthu. When the king learned of this he was very happy, and as news of the birth of the long-awaited heir spread around the kingdom there was rejoicing all over the country.
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Paintings by RAJEE Ba at Yogada in the Himalayas .

Paintings by RAJEE Ba at Yogada in the Himalayas – Rishikesh (India ) :

Who Am I : "Who am I?" has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. Your mind will supply many answers. Your mind will say, "You are the essence of life. You are the eternal soul. You are divine," and so on and so forth. All those answers have to be rejected: NETI NETI - one has to go on saying, "Neither this nor that."

When you have denied all the possible answers that the mind can supply and devise when the question remains absolutely unanswerable, a miracle happens: suddenly the question also disappears. When all the answers have been rejected, the question has no props, no supports inside to stand on anymore. It simply flops, it collapses, it disappears.
When the question also has disappeared, then you know. But that knowledge is not an answer: it is an existential experience.

One can experience all that through making the mind still as the base of the roaring ocean. Making a deep dive with into the place where you belong. When the body and mind are still you start listening to the whispers from your true self and then you let the universe flow through you.

Paintings by RAJEE Ba

Paintings by RAJEE Ba at Yogada in the Himalayas – Rishikesh (India ) :

TANTRA: "In the East, we have developed a science: if you cannot find a soul mate, you can create one. And that science is Tantra. To find a soul mate means to find the person with whom all your seven centers meet naturally. That is impossible. Once in a while, a Krishna and a Radha, a Shiva and a Shakti. And when it happens it is tremendously beautiful. But it is like lightning – you cannot depend on it. If you want to read your Bible, you can't depend on it that when the lightning is there you will read. The lightning is a natural phenomenon, but not dependable.

"If you wait for your natural soul mate to meet with you, it will be just like waiting for lightning with which to read your Bible. And you will not be able to read much either. For a moment it is there, and by the time you have opened the Bible, it is gone.

"Hence, Tantra was created. Tantra is a scientific approach. Tantra is alchemy; it can transform your centers, it can transform the other's centers, it can create a rhythm and harmony between you and you're beloved. That is the beauty of Tantra. It is like bringing electricity into your house. Then you can turn it on and off whenever you want. And you can have a thousand and one uses of it; it can cool your room, it can heat your room. Then it is a miracle. These seven centers in you are nothing but centers of body electricity. So, when I am talking about lightning, don't think of it only as a symbol – I mean it literally.

“Tantra says, sex is very deep because it is life. But you can be interested in Tantra for the wrong reasons. Do not be interested in Tantra for wrong reasons, and then you will not feel that Tantra is dangerous. Then Tantra is life-transforming…
Right now you are a sex unit, and unless this unit is understood deeply you cannot become a spirit, you cannot become a spiritual unit. Sexuality and spirituality are two ends of one energy.
"Yoga starts with the end; Tantra starts with the beginning. And it is good to start with the beginning. It is always good, to begin with, the beginning, because if the end is made the beginning, then you are creating unnecessary misery for yourself. You are not the end – not the ideal. You have to become a god, the ideal, and you are just an animal. And this animal goes berserk because of the ideal of the god; it goes mad, it goes crazy.

"Tantra accepts everything. Whatsoever is, is accepted wholeheartedly. That is why Tantra could accept sex totally. For five thousand years Tantra has been the only tradition which has accepted sex totally, the only one all over the world. Why? Because sex is the point where you are, and any movement is going to be from the point where you are.
"Tantra says, accept whatsoever you are. You are a great mystery of many multidimensional energies. Accept it, and move with every energy with deep sensitivity, with awareness, with love, with understanding. Move with it! Then every desire becomes a vehicle to go beyond it. Then every energy becomes a help. And then this very world is nirvana, this very body is a temple – a holy temple, a holy place.

"Yoga is negation; Tantra is an affirmation. Yoga thinks in terms of duality – that is the reason for the word yoga. It means to put two things together, to "yoke" two things together. But two things are there; the duality is there. Tantra says there is no duality. If there is duality, then you cannot put them together. And howsoever you try they will remain two. Howsoever put together they will remain two, and the fight will continue, the dualism will remain.

“If the world and the divine are two, then they cannot be put together. If really they are not two, if they are only appearing as two, only then can they be one. If your body and your soul are two, then they cannot be put together. If you and God are two, then there is no possibility of putting them together. They will remain two.

“Tantra says there is no duality; it is only an appearance. So why help appearance to grow stronger? Tantra asks, why help this appearance of duality to grow stronger? Dissolve it this very moment! Be one! Through acceptance, you become one, not through a fight. Accept the world, accept the body, accept everything that is inherent in it. Do not create a different center in yourself, because for Tantra that different center is nothing but the ego. Do not create an ego. Just be aware of what you are. If you fight, then the ego will be there.“ Some of the content above come from OSHO.

Paintings by RAJEE Ba at Yogada in the Himalayas – Rishikesh (India ) :

Shiva Shaki – Primordial energies
Shakti is cosmic existence as well as liberation, its most significant form being the Kundalini Shakti, a mysterious psychospiritual force. Shakti embodies the active dynamic energy of Shiva (as Devi Shivaa/Shive) and is synonymously identified with Tripura Sundari or Parvati.
The 'Tantric Cosmology' bases its foundation on two fundamental forces on which the entire universe is created, perceived - they are indestructible in their cosmic union; these forces are known as 'Shiva Shakti'.

Shiva and Shakti are the twin flames; the mirror image of each other. They complete each other, thus they are the indestructible force that unites together to create the entire cosmos. The knowledge of tantra has not been found in the scriptures, but have come to the wise and the yogis through divine vision, in a deep state of meditation or dhyaan. It was sourced to them through the cosmos to enable the mankind.
A woman on earth represents the Prakriti, the ultimate feminine power who creates, whilst a man represents the Purusha, the ultimate masculine power who empowers the creation.
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