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The Kiss of Death – Destroyer of Death (12 Kalis #6)

June 29, 2020 Claudia Dose
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The conscious energy, hungry for pure subjectivity ‘kills death’.

Here in the cognitive cycle it is the death of the ego, self reflection, and yet the knowledge “i created this” which still carries the residues of duality. Pride is the king of objectivity and therefore of death; the ego and death being intimately connected.

This is the continuation of a series on the 12 Kalis, read more about the concept behind the series here. Previous Kalis: creation (#1 Sṛiṣṭikālī,) maintaining (#2 Rakta-kālī,) and destruction (#3 Sthitināśakālī) and the void (#4 Yamakālī) in the objective cycle. The creation in cognitive cycle (#5 Samhārakālī – re-absorbing energy) . . .

The sixth Kali: Mṛtyukālī – Destroyer of Death

Destruction/protection in the cycle of subjectivity. The sixth expansion*.

 

12 Kalis #6 Mrityukali The Kiss of Death Painting by Claudia Dose

The Kiss of Death – Painting by Claudia Dose
12 x 12 x 0.75 inch, (30.48 x 30.48 x 1.9 cm)

6. Mṛityukālī.
मामेत्यहंकारकलाकलाप-
विस्फारहर्षौद्धतगर्वमृत्युः।
ग्रस्तो यया घस्मरसंविदं तां
नमामि कालोदितमृत्युकलीम् ॥६॥

mamety-ahaṁkāra-kalā kalāpa-
visphā raharṣoddhata-garva-mṛityuḥ /
grasto yayā ghasmara saṁvidaṁ tāṁ
namāmi kālodita mṛityu kālīm //6//

 

Obeisance to that voracious consciousness known as Mṛityukālī, who beyond time limitation rises unexpectedly. She devours death, which appears in the form of arrogance inflamed by a joyful excitement expanding itself to all ego activities when the notion of ownership expresses itself in the idea “this is mine.”

Before the intervention of Mṛityukālī, the agent of the self who says to himself: ‘I have known the object’, knowing that he knows remains a witness, he still perceives his organs objectively and directs them, so he remains subject to duality and deprived of true spontaneity. But when Mṛityukālī has completed her task and put an end to this form of knowledge, the objects no longer differ from the subject, and the subject shines constantly as a pure pramātṛ endowed with an intuitive and stable knowledge. The conscious energy thus absorbs the previous subject while the influence of the differentiated disappears and with it the pride (abhimāna), hence a return to the undifferentiated.

Differentiated knowledge being included in the undifferentiated Self from which Mṛtyukālī extracts it, kal– here has the meaning of jñāna.

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Source:
Ancient Kramastotra by Abhinavagupta** (Sanskrit), Kramanaya Pradipika (Hindi 1959) by Swami Lakshmanjoo, Hymnes Aux Kali La Roue Des Energies Divines (French 1975) by Lilian Silburn.
* Each of the twelve Kalis is called avikasaor expansion, because this universe is not created in the sense of being made from something. It is simply the expansion of Lord Shiva’s own nature. ~Swami Lakshmanjoo, Abhinavagupta’s Tantraloka.
** Though it is generally accepted that the author of the Ancient Kramastotra is unknown, Swami Lakshmanjoo indicated that the author may have been Abhinavagupta, the illustrious Shaiva Master who lived from 924 to 1020 C.E.
Abhinavagupta wrote in great detail about Shakti, the feminine principle in his Tantraloka, 4th Ahnika as revealed by Swami Lakshmanjoo (Archives of the Lakshmanjoo Academy, publishing anticipated in 2021).

 

 

 

 

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