The Goddess Divine Mother is in the form of all Kalas (arts).
Kala is interpreted in different ways. There are ten parts (Kalas) for Agni (Fire), twelve Kalas for Sun and sixteen Kalas for Moon. There are also sixty-four Kalas or forms of art. The Divine Mother is the essence of all these Kalas.
Agni has ten Kalas within it. When it burns well, there are seven bunches of fire that can be seen, without smoke, clean fire and hiding within the ashes, making a total of ten Kalas. Sun has twelve Kalas. Moon has sixteen Kalas. Arts are separated into sixty-four forms. Lord Shiva and the Divine Mother forms are involved in these Kalas. The Divine Mother takes various forms of the Kalas. Brahma, Vishnu, Rudran, Eswaran, and Sadashivan all have Kalas. Brahma has ten Kalas; Vishnu has sixteen Kalas, Rudran has ten Kalas, Eswaran has four Kalas and Sadashivan has sixteen Kalas.
There are in addition four
Kalas in each of the four states, namely waking, dreaming, deep sleeping and
turiya. These are known as Kamakala.
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The four Kalas in
waking state (Jagrat) are: rising, staying awake, consciousness and continuous
mental action.
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The four Kalas of
dreaming state (swapna) are: desire, confusion, anxiety and dwelling on sense
objects.
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The four Kalas of
deep sleeping state(suahutti) are: death, oblivion, insensitivity, and sleep
enveloped in darkness.
·
The four Kalas of
(Turiya) sleeping and Self-awareness state are: dispassion, desire for liberation,
discrimination of the real and unreal and samadhi.
Since these are all contained
in the Divine Mother’s Shakti, She is called Kalatmika.
The Divine Mother as Kamatmi
C N Nachiappun
Singapore, 27 September 2021
References:
1.
The Thousand
Names of the Divine Mother published in English by Mata Amritanandamayi Center,
San Ramon, California, USA, with Commentary by T. V Narayana Menon
2.
Shri Lalitha
Sahasranama Stostram published in Tamil by N. Ramaswami Iyer charities’
societies, Trichirapalli, India, with Commentary by C. V. Radhakrishna Sastry.
3. The Lalitha Sahasranamam published in Tamil by Shri Ramakrishna Thapovanam, Thiruipparaithurai, Trichy District, Tamilnadu, India with commentary by Shrimath Swami Sithbavandar
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