{"collection":"tantra","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/tantra/htk/htk12.htm","path":"tantra/htk/htk12.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/tantra/htk/htk12.htm","text":"Hymn to Kali, by Arthur Avalon (Sir John George Woodroffe), [1922]\nTHOSE who truly 1 meditate on Thee, the Spouse of Hara, 2 who art seated in 3 the cremation-ground strewn with funeral pyres, corpses, skulls, and bones, and haunted by female jackals howling fearfully; who art very youthful, 4 and art in full enjoyment upon 5 Thy Spouse, are revered by all and in all places. 6\nCOMMENTARY\n'Meditate on' (Dhy\u0101yanti)\nThat is see with unperturbed mind.\n'Spouse of Hara' (Haravadh\u016b\u1e41)\nHara is He who removes (Harati) the threefold pains (\u0100dhy\u0101tmika, \u0100dhibhautika, \u0100dhidaivika) of Jivas. His spouse is \u015aakti, that is She who grants Liberation to J\u012bvas and is Saccid\u0101nandar\u016bpi\u1e47\u012b.'\n'Hast entered' (Pravi\u1e63t\u0101\u1e41)\nArt established.\n'Flaming' pyre (Prakatitacit\u0101y\u0101\u1e41)\nCit-\u015bakti On account of Her being self-manifested. Ca\u1e47d\u012b speaks of 'Her who pervades the whole universe as consciousness (Cit).'\n'Fearful' (Ghor\u0101bhih)\nThat is very powerful.\n'Jackals' (\u015aiv\u0101bhih)\nThat is Mah\u0101bh\u016btas which are auspicious (\u015aiva) before being made fivefold (Pa\u00f1c\u012bk\u1e5bta).\n'Skulls and bones' (Mu\u1e47d\u0101sthi-nikaraih)\nThe white colour of the skulls and bones indicates the white Sattva-gu\u1e47a. Hence associated with the Sattva and other Gu\u1e47as of the J\u012bvas dissolved in Mah\u0101pralaya.\n'Ever youthful' (Atiyuvat\u012b\u1e41)\nThat is She is always the same, fresh, unchanging, and un-wasting.\n'Satisfied with enjoyment ' (Santusht\u0101m-uparisuratena)\nShe, after subduing Parama \u015aiva to Her will, has willingly enjoyment in the work of creation, preservation and dissolution. Nirv\u0101\u1e47a-Tantra says, 'The V\u0101m\u0101 (She who is on the left) is the Grantrix of Great Liberation after conquering the Dak\u1e63i\u1e47a (\u015aiva who is on the right).' Gandharva-Tantra says, 'She who is the Sun, Moon, and Fire and half of Ha (\u015aiva) puts down the Puru\u1e63a and enjoys him from above.' Niruttara-Tantra says, 'When Nirgu\u1e47\u0101 K\u0101l\u012b becomes Sagu\u1e47\u0101 She is engaged in Vipar\u012btarati.' The Yoga-v\u0101\u1e63i\u1e63tha in the Nirv\u0101\u1e47a-Prakara\u1e47a says, 'Natural unity is \u015aiva. Creation is (compared with it) unnatural.' That is the Mah\u0101dev\u012b is Nirgu\u1e47a-Brahman in Her Svar\u016bpa aspect and the subversion of this Svar\u016bpa is the cause of creation.\n'Nowhere' (Kvacidapi na)\nIn no birth.\n'Humiliated' (Paribhavah)\nThat is they are not subjected to birth, death, and rebirth and attain Nirv\u0101\u1e47a.\n64:1 p. 65 Commentator K. B.: where param is said to mean 'rightly,' or meditation alone without japa.\n64:2 \u015aiva.\n64:3 Pravi\u1e63t\u0101m, 'literally Entered '.\n64:4 Atiyuvatim. She is without childhood or old age. The S\u0101rad\u0101tilaka says, 'Although Thou art primordial, Thy youth is ever fresh'. (V)\n64:5 Santu\u1e63t\u0101\u1e41 uparisuratena, that is vipar\u012btarati, or vipar\u012btavih\u0101ra as to which see note 5 of last \u015bloka.\n64:6 Commentator K. B.: literally 'They nowhere suffer (Kvacidapi na), that is, neither in this nor the next world defeat or humiliation.'","title":"Hymn to Kali: Text: Verse 8","type":"page"}