Kali: Mother of the Universe | Pravrajika Gitaprana

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  • čas přidán 12. 10. 2019
  • Pravrajika Gitaprana (Vivekananda Retreat, Ridgely) speaks on the meaning behind the imagery associated with Mother Kali.
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Komentáře • 77

  • @gireeshneroth7127
    @gireeshneroth7127 Před 4 lety +34

    Kali is power, force, strength, energy and nature as well.

  • @ushanthadesilva2694
    @ushanthadesilva2694 Před rokem +4

    when you feel her in you you feel loved.she is love .love that makes you cry with joy.🙏❤

  • @SrikanthIyerTheMariner
    @SrikanthIyerTheMariner Před 2 lety +5

    What a brilliant lecture that explains the relationship between the form and formless. I never realized that form and formless could be the two sides of the same coin , like say, day and night are.
    Advaita/non dualism is the the most brilliant philosophy ever that keeps on giving ..by helping me make sense of the Universe that I dwell in.

  • @ksoldestaccount7654
    @ksoldestaccount7654 Před 3 lety +15

    42:42 Her sword is the sword of wisdom that cuts through the duality ...... She does that for her devotee

    • @curvelinedot
      @curvelinedot Před 11 měsíci

      Yes everyone still believes in the gender binary, when there are 6 identified sapien sexes

  • @ramanathdas7058
    @ramanathdas7058 Před 2 lety +5

    4th time watching this. I love MAA soooo much!

  • @izvrix
    @izvrix Před 4 lety +14

    Some devotees of Mother are ... Eccentric. Yes, I can see the example here.
    :)

  • @satwikjoglekar6126
    @satwikjoglekar6126 Před 4 lety +12

    As usual most captivating talk Mataji... Gave me new insights about the Form of Maa Kali...

  • @ChaosPath
    @ChaosPath Před 2 lety +3

    Thank you for a wonderful talk. So much high quality pouring out from what Ramakrishna and Vivekananda (and of course in the ultimate sense - Kali Ma) started. And to access them for free is a blessing. Thank you. Jai Ma!

  • @sarasvatishaktiscripts3998

    🤗🕉💐🍃Hari Hari -Thank you for sharing🍃💐🕉🤗

  • @revzoinman5962
    @revzoinman5962 Před 4 lety +5

    yay team! Jai Ma, Gitaprana, Rev.zo

  • @thingshappen4062
    @thingshappen4062 Před 4 lety +3

    Behind the ego is a very good message. Was not expecting a delivery of this kind.

  • @robcheerful
    @robcheerful Před 4 lety +7

    I always enjoy your talks. Thank you.

  • @sunitjoshi3573
    @sunitjoshi3573 Před 4 lety +4

    Explained with great clarity. Heart full thanks for this 🙏

  • @ksoldestaccount7654
    @ksoldestaccount7654 Před 3 lety +6

    19:44 Mother is infinite, and she is not different from Brahman. she can reorder anything when she wants to ... and certainly can suddenly reorder her devotees' life

  • @tzadik36
    @tzadik36 Před 4 lety +3

    Pronaams🙏 and thank you!

  • @AmitabhaBanerjeeJB
    @AmitabhaBanerjeeJB Před 4 lety +8

    Thank you for video. This talk was lovingly, electrifying - and I can still feel the tingle. Would like to hear her talks, where can I find them.

    • @richa4i01
      @richa4i01 Před 4 lety

      Amitabha Banerjee on you tube, search her name

  • @rajendraraval7852
    @rajendraraval7852 Před 7 měsíci

    Nice lecture just describing The Mother as She is.

  • @ultravioletpisces3666
    @ultravioletpisces3666 Před 9 měsíci +1

    31:07 this makes me think of in the movie Dogma… God wanted to play skeeball (aka wanted to experience the material world) so s/he took the form of a human man in Atlantic City and then was attacked and put on life support and so was trapped in the body (form) until the life suport was disconnected and god could return to formlessness. (And then later appeared in the form of Alanis Morset)

  • @powerofyouthbysamivivekana3746

    Outstanding, jay ma jay ma.. Jay takur Ramakrishna Paramhansa dav

  • @kevinashcroft2028
    @kevinashcroft2028 Před 4 lety +1

    Thankyou for sending me the British version of Vedanta
    I already possess the True Indian version......... ..inside of me.

  • @swamivedantanandapuri1322
    @swamivedantanandapuri1322 Před 6 měsíci

    Pranaam mataji🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @allnone4277
    @allnone4277 Před 4 lety +4

    🙏🙏🙏

  • @ksoldestaccount7654
    @ksoldestaccount7654 Před 3 lety

    21:00 Translation of songs to Mother from Bengal .... woww!!!!!

  • @jovankamagana9294
    @jovankamagana9294 Před rokem

    Amazing video!!

  • @breakfastballpar4273
    @breakfastballpar4273 Před 2 lety +3

    Ma kali blessed me in my worst time and appeared to me as a child. Now, after years of addiction and darkness ma kali has again taken control of me. She showed everything and told me we are always at play. She showed me how much she loves me and I saw her dancing with shiva but I never saw shiva and then I realized that it was I who she was dancing with. I realized that I indeed was shiva.

  • @ksoldestaccount7654
    @ksoldestaccount7654 Před 3 lety +1

    39:00 there are some breathtakingly beautiful parts of this world (because of media we are forgetting that). Twice as many things are good......theres also awful stuff happening, life lives on life, much of it is because of humans, in this game all beings seek their own advantage and there are clashes ... never underestimate the power of Mother; you can dress her in saris and anthropomorphize Her and buy her jewels but remember she is also the power of hurricanes and volcanoes and we have to respect that ....!!!!! Have to respect that she is the mighty power of the universe; she is everything including .... but she is also our very own

  • @x1y2z1
    @x1y2z1 Před 2 lety

    🙏 mataji

  • @mokshajetley9244
    @mokshajetley9244 Před rokem

    Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna

  • @ramanathdas7058
    @ramanathdas7058 Před 2 lety

    Mataji this is nectar. Can u please speak more and can you please speak more about Momma?

  • @ramanathdas7058
    @ramanathdas7058 Před 2 lety +2

    Third time watching this lecture. I felt sick and felt Kali told me I could eat meat to get back health. I don’t prefer it but idk.

    • @pappuchak8605
      @pappuchak8605 Před rokem +1

      Yes Ma sometimes indicates... During the start of corona I saw dream.. As if I was a little kid playing on the ground.. But when I looked up I only saw darkness... I did not know what was lying beyond... Suddenly I saw an enormous sword blown over my head.. It severed a head... Blood splashed out... I was terrified and looked back and saw Ma Maha Kali standing like a mountain behind me.. She was in full rage but I also observed a duality in her expression... Tear was rolling down from her eyes.. She looked helpless... Sonething was haunting her... She kept her sword slowly on my shoulder!! My God... The weight of that sword!! I woke up in fury at 2 o'clock at night.. Well after 7 days of this dream corona was declared world wide... Mother lost millions of her children.. But probably she saved me... I never had corona during 1st and 2nd wave when million died... I only had once I had my full vaccination and it was a mild one... So my experience proves She really protects...

  • @grandmakittylovesyou
    @grandmakittylovesyou Před rokem

  • @mokshajetley9244
    @mokshajetley9244 Před rokem

    Jai Swami Vivekananda

  • @ksoldestaccount7654
    @ksoldestaccount7654 Před 3 lety

    5:55 maa!!!!!!!

  • @kushagramunshi1440
    @kushagramunshi1440 Před 2 lety

    Could anyone kindly let me know as to which stotra/mantra is being chanted at 3:02 ?

  • @chhandaghosh6504
    @chhandaghosh6504 Před 4 lety

    My regards to Gitaprana mata. I don't know how to connect her!! Could I please get little more detail about this " Genesha like/ likes Kali"... Thank you

  • @ksoldestaccount7654
    @ksoldestaccount7654 Před 3 lety

    30:00 she loves to withdraw into formlessness

  • @ksoldestaccount7654
    @ksoldestaccount7654 Před 3 lety

    12:00 In WW2 uncle ........ wow!

  • @ksoldestaccount7654
    @ksoldestaccount7654 Před 3 lety

    54:18 renegade devotee!

  • @ksoldestaccount7654
    @ksoldestaccount7654 Před 3 lety

    35:40 The Mother's game ...

  • @ultravioletpisces3666
    @ultravioletpisces3666 Před měsícem

    36:12 my little son always cheats to help me win :) or to just keep the game going

  • @ksoldestaccount7654
    @ksoldestaccount7654 Před 3 lety

    50:46 Story!

  • @ksoldestaccount7654
    @ksoldestaccount7654 Před 3 lety

    49:14 get after the Mother!!

  • @ananyasen6726
    @ananyasen6726 Před 4 lety +1

    Namaskar Mataji. Can I chant kreem mantra for Kaali Ma without any guru? If yes then how many times in a day? Thanks in advance.

    • @ramanathdas7058
      @ramanathdas7058 Před 2 lety

      Yes

    • @pappuchak8605
      @pappuchak8605 Před rokem

      Oim hrim krim dakshina kalikayoi namo namah... This is the complete mantra.. You can chant it all the time... More you chant more blessings you get... Kali is the only Goddess who does not endorse a guru system... Her all mantras are swayam swiddha..

  • @graemegeorgeharrison2468
    @graemegeorgeharrison2468 Před 9 měsíci

    How do we pray to Kali for forgiveness?

    • @BLMacab
      @BLMacab Před 9 měsíci +1

      reverse karma through making things right, being truly sincere, better choices, 8 fold path and ask what needs to be corrected

  • @ksoldestaccount7654
    @ksoldestaccount7654 Před 3 lety

    20:16 Infinity is not a huge number because it's not a number at all.

  • @ksoldestaccount7654
    @ksoldestaccount7654 Před 3 lety

    47:07 thinking that Grace "should be like this or that" ......

  • @ksoldestaccount7654
    @ksoldestaccount7654 Před 3 lety

    38:01 our unreasonable Disneyland kind of idea of life. Like "Bambi always gets free" but that's not how life works ..... everybody should be happy at all times and if not happy there's something seriously wrong etc. is no no this is disneyland: life has both ups and downs.

  • @mukeshdesai2862
    @mukeshdesai2862 Před 4 lety

    26:50. ;

  • @ksoldestaccount7654
    @ksoldestaccount7654 Před 3 lety

    22:47 All deities have a form set for meditation purposes ...! Oh Mother, will you go rescue Kamakanta in this outfit?

  • @ultravioletpisces3666
    @ultravioletpisces3666 Před měsícem

    We (humans) are also form and formless, aren’t we!?

  • @ksoldestaccount7654
    @ksoldestaccount7654 Před 3 lety

    18:42 space time goes together: she manifests every every every infinite possibility sometime somewhere ... for the Mother, it is all now, and it is all manifest .... we devotees dont even try

  • @virginiaplain100
    @virginiaplain100 Před 4 lety +1

    Do you think the bias against Kali Maa may be due to the educational system in India? A lot of middle and upper class Indians send their children to English medium schools, many of which are run by Christians.

    • @sleepytoe8
      @sleepytoe8 Před 4 lety +1

      Even before Christians arrived kali worship had earned bad name due to some people practicing it in wrong way. Shri Ramakrishna also criticised such people. The fact that shakta way of worship is more secretive than others doesn't help either. Swami Vivekananda also said that the Kali symbol is not for everyone. Not many Hindus understand this symbol let alone outsiders. In my opinion we are doing more damage to our spiritual heritage by letting non spiritual or people with no authority teach religion through tv and media, the tv shows based on our scriptures are simply for sense gratification with the essence lost in too much drama. There are books also which do this. Instead of trying to uplift people from mundane to devine these entities try to bring the devine down to our level and say ' look the so called gods and goddesses are not different at all'.

  • @chhandaghosh6504
    @chhandaghosh6504 Před 4 lety +1

    Sorry, it will be the other way " Kali like a Genesha"...

  • @sreeladevi1780
    @sreeladevi1780 Před rokem

    Mahadevi mahaKali also has... her Sattva, Raja, Tama, qualities .... so let's read her 💖 'Devi Sahasra Naam '👌 in adoration,🧡 'n sing her 😊glories... 👍‼️ Saradamani ma was
    of a totally saatvic nature.
    Jayanti mangala kali bhadra kali kapalini, Durga Shyama Shiva dhatri, Swaha Swada Namostute🚩Yaa devi sarva🤗 bhutesu shanti rupenu sanstitha. ... Namostute .......× 3.‼️
    In Tantric ritual, was alcohol & sex permitted❔
    ..? .... so i guess ' ninnda ' in anger as tama gunn (dark quality) had existed as a mother & child relation/intimacy... am i wrong ❌❓

  • @alecmisra4964
    @alecmisra4964 Před 4 lety

    Consider this:
    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agave_(Theban_princess)

  • @ksoldestaccount7654
    @ksoldestaccount7654 Před 3 lety

    17:10 form and formless are irrelevant categories here

  • @SrikanthIyerTheMariner

    How strange!! ..you can worship by scolding God ( Ninda Stuti) 😂😂
    I need to check this out
    Jai Ma 🙏

  • @lbsingson7746
    @lbsingson7746 Před 3 lety

    Demon worship was common in ancient time.

    • @jkm3297
      @jkm3297 Před 2 lety +1

      Try to mature

    • @ramanathdas7058
      @ramanathdas7058 Před 2 lety

      Vicarious atonement is most demonic theological idea I’ve ever heard.

    • @lbsingson7746
      @lbsingson7746 Před 2 lety

      @@jkm3297 Even my ancestors practiced demon worshiping.

    • @SrikanthIyerTheMariner
      @SrikanthIyerTheMariner Před 2 lety +1

      Non dualism is the one of the brilliant philosophies ever discovered by man. And Ma Kali is an extreme example of how that philosophy might be tested.
      This is not blind worship, but rather a rigorous thought system based on the idea that all dichotomies are false .. same way day and night are but different sides of the same coin.

    • @ultravioletpisces3666
      @ultravioletpisces3666 Před 9 měsíci

      The idea of what a “demon” is or was also is different in different times and places

  • @user-ee3od6hz9b
    @user-ee3od6hz9b Před 2 měsíci

    This lecture was terrible. Any interest I had in learning of Maa Kali is gone now. Who wants to worship a goddess who only causes harm and discord? Or perhaps this Westerner guru is clueless?

  • @FireWithinCosmosaicSEA

    For some reason... I feel disheartened by this talk... literally sat through the whole thing waitting to hear glories... Rather i found a taunting
    Something unsettling..
    :/
    Also i am not to far from hollywood...
    And i never heard of a Kali puja... Let alone shaktas... But i should like to find out more...
    Because Maa was really irritated that i was even listening to this 😂

    • @FireWithinCosmosaicSEA
      @FireWithinCosmosaicSEA Před 4 lety +1

      @Viveka 1893 🙏🏼🌺 Blessings dear.
      You know its funny she gave you knowledge of nuclear fission because in some way she gave me related knowledge of Dark matter and Universal expansion...
      Although i have no one to talk with about such things 😂
      May MaaKali Bless Those with sincerity in their hearts
      may she root out ignorance where needed
      May she bring justice to that blessed place where her name is sung
      🌺🙏🏼 Be Well Always on and Abundant throughout Your Journey Vivek!
      Om TatSat

  • @sanjoygupta1897
    @sanjoygupta1897 Před 3 lety

    She is never in the postion of sexual position dont talk nonsense