Kali is the angry form of Parvati and Sita: the top of the vengeful gods, the offering of meat-fish-liquor and currency, the tribals behind the beginning of their worship

The controversy that started in Canada on July 2 over a poster of Maa Kali is not taking its name to stop in India. This is the poster of filmmaker Leena Manimekalai’s documentary film ‘Kaali’. In this, the goddess was shown smoking a cigarette. Along with this, he also has a pride flag of LGBTQ in his hand. UP Police also registered an FIR against Leena.

At the same time, Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra made a statement that Maa Kali is the goddess who eats meat and drinks alcohol for them. Controversy has got more air with his statement. What is the importance of Maa Kali in Hindu society, let us tell you.

Kali is the most important of the vengeful gods

Pandit Shyam Sundar Shastri of Delhi’s Sanatan Dharma Mandir told that Kali means time. Maa Kali, Bhairav ​​and Lord Shiva are called Tamsik Devs. Maa Kali was born to protect Dharma and destroy the Asuras. When Parvati and Sita got angry, they took the form of mother Kali. Maa Kali destroyed many asuras. Demons like Mahishasura, Chand, Munda, Dhamraksh, Raktabeej were involved in this.

There are 4 forms of Maa Kali: Dakshina Kali, Shamshan Kali, Matri Kali and Mahakali.

Meat, fish, wine and currency are offered

Dr. R. Achal Pulasteya, the author of the book named Srichakrarchana Mahayag-Vigyanik Vichar and Vidhi, told that Panchamkar has been offered to Mother Kali since ancient times during the Tantra period. It means meat, fish, wine and mudra (roasted grain).

Black has no form. But mother Kali is the wife of Mahakal. Both of them are formless. But in the modern era, their color has been made. In the ancient temple of Maa Kali, there is only Pindi, not an idol. Maa Kali is specially worshiped in West Bengal, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, tribal areas of Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Assam, Odisha and Bangladesh.

Kali is the angry form of Parvati

According to mythology, there was a demon named Raktabeej. He had got a boon that wherever his blood would fall, many demons would be born. This made him proud. The terror of Raktabeej kept increasing. Seeing this, the gods challenged him to war.

When the war took place, as the blood of Raktabeej shed, the demons started increasing. Due to this the gods got upset and went to mother Parvati. Mata assumed the form of Maa Kali and fought with Raktabeej. Where his blood fell, the mother took out her tongue and drank it and killed the demon. Mother was so angry that it was difficult to calm her down. In such a situation, the gods appealed to Shiva. Shiva lay down to stop them and the mother put her foot on him. After that she calmed down. Idols of this form of mother are seen in many temples.

Kali Puja of Tamluk, Barasat, Naihati and Barrackpore is very famous in Bengal.

Tribal families have been worshipers of Kali

Writer Dr. R. Achal, who lived in Deoria, Uttar Pradesh, told Woman Bhaskar that from the Indus Valley Civilization, three or seven Pindis were made on an earthen platform on a river bank or under a neem tree. Today temples have been built here. Among them were the priests of Harijan Samaj. Meat, ganja, country liquor were offered to Maa Kali because at that time people did not hunt agriculture. Even today, 80% of the people in Purvanchal offer all these things to Maa Kali.

On the days of Gupt Navratri and Chaitra Navratri, when Ram Navami comes, sacrificial worship is performed on that day. A large number of animal sacrifices are performed in the temple of the goddess.

Kalighat Temple is one of the 51 Shaktipeeths in Kolkata, West Bengal.

There was no custom of Kali worship in Bengal

In today’s time Durga Puja of West Bengal is famous in the world but there is no history of Kali Puja here. Amit Chatterjee, the priest of Shiv Shakti Maa Mansa Devi Temple in Uttarbenipur, West Bengal, told that wherever there is Sanatan Dharma, there is worship of the mother and it is happening not long ago, then neither Bengal was formed nor any second state. In the 16th century, a tantrit named Krishnananda Agambagisho worshiped Maa Kali in the form of an idol for the first time in Navadvipa (its old name is Nadia) in Bengal.

The Kalika Mangalakavya, a devotional work at the end of the 17th century, mentions an annual festival dedicated to Kali. In the 18th century, Raja Krishnachandra of Krishnanagar, Nadia, promoted the worship of Mother Kali on a large scale in Bengal.

There was a controversy over the getup of mother Kali at the Halloween party of US actress Heidi Klum.

Tantriks are worshiped to get power like Kali

Tantriks who do tantra worship worship mother Kali and Shiva only. Actually there is a horoscope in the human body i.e. spinal cord. This is the first thing that happens in a child. It is believed that Shiva resides in the head of the horoscope and Maa Kali resides in the lower part. Tantriks worship them for the purpose of awakening the power of both of them in themselves.

9 forms of Kali are described in Tantra texts. These are Kali, Dakshinakali, Ugrakali, Smashan Kali, Kamakalakali, Kankali, Rakt Kali, Shyamakali and Vama Kali. Apart from this, Kali is the first Mahavidya among the ten Mahavidyas. This is the original nature which is worshiped in 10 forms as Kali, Tara, Bhuvaneshwari, Tripurasundari, Tripurabhairavi, Chhinmasta, Dhumavati, Baglamukhi, Matangi and Kamala.

Not Vedas and Upanishads, there is mention of Kali in Puranas

Maa Kali is not mentioned in Vedas and Upanishads. He has two stories only in the Puranas. Kali is the goddess of Tantra. Mother is worshiped as Kamakhya in Assam, Tripura Sundari in Tripura, Rajrappa in Jharkhand, Chandi in Nepal, Taradevi in ​​Bihar and Tarapith in Mithyanchal. In Tarapith, tantriks offer cigarettes to the mother and recite the mantra of Dhumantu.