What's the diff. between Durga and Kali?

[Guest guest]

Why are they diff. when their functions are similar.

[Guest guest]

What is the difference between mother, maa, amma, mummy, mere, madre, mago, ammi, .......

 

Similarly Durga, Kali, Jagdambe, Gauri, Shakti....

 

Hope this helps!

 

 

[Guest guest]

i think the difference is just a degree of destruction....where durga is a destruction on an individual level, kali is on a grander level...

 

durga is the destruction of the misery. i think she also represents destruction of one person during war,

 

whereas kali is the association with a battlefield where many lay dead.

 

this is purely mythological, but i think philosophically, it is just a matter of degree. Kali is a more destructiove force than Durga.

[maadhav 0]

kali is very ugly and nacked.

Durga is beatiful and well dressed and armed.

 

 

[Guest guest]

That is a very strange way of describing a mother goddess when she took that appearance to get rid of very demonic creatures just like her husband Shiva who took all the poison from sea curdling.

 

When you are dealing with demonic creature you need a fearsome appearance,

 

as the saying in Hindi goes

 

LATON KE BHOOT BATON SE NAHIN MANTE HEIN

 

 

[Rajashekhar 0]

[kali is very ugly and nacked.

Durga is beatiful and well dressed and armed.]

 

So OK, go ahead and like Kali more if you like her more than Durga.

 

[Ganeshprasad 0]

Jai Ganesh

 

Read Markand puran and you will see The Shakti appears in many different forms to kill the demons who also expanded in thousand of forms.

 

Jai Shree Krishna

 

 

[Ganeshprasad 0]

Jai Ganesh

 

Pranam Madhav

 

Re

(kali is very ugly and nacked.

Durga is beatiful and well dressed and armed.)

 

Sorry madhav she appears Bhaiankar to the Asura, but she is always pleasing and beautiful to the devotees.

 

Jai Shree Krishna

[maadhav 0]

okay. i agree.

 

 

[sporkubus 0]

Seems to me, Kali is destruction when it is most painful, the destruction of desires that bring wholesome and pleasing results within our limited perspective, but things that are nonetheless barriers to achieving moksha; Durga is the destruction of painful and unpleasant things, which is why she is depicted as much more pleasing to the eye.