What I meant was, is that one should be careful
about the Deity-form one chooses to worship, if you
are a non-Indian, and not familiar with Indian
Deities.(I cannot necessarily know if the person
asking is Indian; many Westerners adopt Indian names)
Lots of Westerners talk very glibly about worshipping
Kali without realizing what She can be like, and it is
one thing to have a calling, as I did, and quite
another to simply decide one day that you need more
God in your life and pick the Indian Goddess with the
skull necklace because you saw it on TV and it looked
cool! If you are of a sensitive or heavily deluded
nature and you pick Smashan Kali to meditate on, you
are liable to frighten yourself terribly if She should
appear to you all bloody and dangling with skulls and
chopped-off heads all over the place, or your
delusions start shattering like cheap glasses! She IS
the Destroyer of Illusion, after all! That being said,
it is a fact that the very shy, sweet-natured, and
holy Shri Sarada Devi, the wife of Ramakrishna
Paramahansa, was a devotee of Smashan Kali! I usually
recommend that Westerners who want to worship Kali do
so using the image of Dakshineswar Kali, because that
way they will tap into the Ramakrishna devotional
current, which is a known quantity. I do not wish to
be responsible for someone coming to spiritual harm as
a result of advice I have given them...advice is a
karma, you know, and spiritual advice, much more so!!
Lilith M.
--- "N. Madasamy" <ashwini_puralasamy@...>
wrote:

>
> Lili Masamura wrote: The very best way to understand
> the Kali image
> is to meditate on Her yantra, and ask Kali Herself
> what it
> all means!(If you dare!)
>
> I am trying to understand this statement. You mean
> we should be
> afraid to ask Kali Ma herself? Is she so terrible,
> so frightening
> that it will invoke such fear in the first place. To
> me it make no
> sense. You spend hours worshipping HER, and when SHE
> actually
> appear, you run away. Why?
>
>
>
>
>




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