The Road to the Mother
Confessions of a Twenty-Something Kali Worshiper This article originally appeared in Winter 1998 issue of Light of Consciousness Magazine...
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Swami Chetanananda
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Sri Ramakrishna
(From They Lived with God: Life Stories of Some Devotees of Sri Ramakrishna, by Swami Chetananada. Copyright rests with the author of...
Swami Lakshmanjoo
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Kali in Kashmir Shaivism
From the teachings of Swami Lakshmanjoo
Dr. Lex Hixon
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The Tantric Way of the Goddess Kali, Ramakrishna of Bengal
Excerpt from Coming Home, the Experience of Enlightenment in Sacred Traditions, Larson Publications, Burdett, 1995, (pp. 25-40)....
Elizabeth Usha Harding
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Yielding to the Storm of Kali
This article, written in 1992, first appeared in Tattva-Sangarba, the journal of the Sringiri Shankaracharia Math, India. A portion was...
Swami Sivananda Saraswati
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Worship of Shakti
Excerpt from Bhakti Yoga, Life and Works of Swami Shivananda, Vol. 5, Divine Life Society, Shivanandanagar, 1986 (pp. 282-287). The...
Sri Haradhan Chakraborty
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Treasures From Dakshineswar, An Interview with Sri Haradhan Chakraborti
During a car trip to San Diego, Gita and Usha were able to pose some questions to Haradhanji, the head priest of the Dakshineswar Kali...
Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati
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Tantric Hindu Ritual, A Brief Overview
Puja is an ancient and powerful Tantric system of worship consisting of mantra, mudra, visualization, ritual action, meditation and...
Swami Vivekananda
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Vivekananda on Mother Kali
Excerpt from The Life of Swami Vivekananda by His Eastern and Western Disciples, Advaita Ashrama, Calcutta, 1974, (pp 94-96). One day the...
Mahendranath Gupta (M.)
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Sri Ramakrishna on the Divine Mother
Excerpts from The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, tr. by Swami Nikhilananda, Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, New York, 1973. Mother Has...
Elizabeth Usha Harding
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Sri Bamakhepa of Tarapith, A Breif Life Story
Although Bamakhepa is not particularly know for worshipping Kali, he was such a great Mother worshipper and contemporary of Sri...
Elizabeth Usha Harding
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Rani Rasmani
The historic Dakshineswar Kali temple was built by an extremely liberal woman, Rani Ramani, whose life was dedicated to Kali. The Rani’s...
Antonio Valeriano
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Our Lady of Guadalupe
The Apparitions of the Divine Mother to Saint Juan Diego Recorded by Antonio Valeriano in 1531 There follows herewith a carefully ordered...
Swami Chidananda Saraswati
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Mother Destroys But To Save
Excerpt from God As Mother, Divine Life Society, Shivanandanagar, 1991 (pp. 13-20). Salutations again and again to the blessed Divine...
Swami Vivekananda
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Kali The Mother
The stars are blotted out, The clouds are covering clouds It is darkness vibrant, sonant, In the roaring, whirling wind Are the souls of...
Swami Ambikananda Saraswati
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Kali Puja – Living the Moment
Originally published in the 1998 Kali Mandir Puja Program. Achieving but a moment of awareness is a constant struggle. Think of a child...
Swami Chetanananda
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Is Kali Terrible? Goddess Kali's Sybolism
A non-Christian who is unfamiliar with Jesus becomes horrified when he sees Christians worshipping a portrait of an image of a person...
Swami Nirmalananda Giri (Abbot George Burke)
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I Meet God in Stone
I had always been an “idolator.” (“Idol” comes form eidol, the Greek word meaning “statue” or any three-dimensional figure.) I expect I...
Colin Robinson
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How an Indian City Worships Kali
There is an old association between the Calcutta area and the Goddess Kali. The very name of the city (Bengali: Kalikata) is thought to...
Elizabeth Usha Harding
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Sri Sarada Devi, A Brief Introduction
She was so quiet, so dignified. People do not think of the quiet consort of Sri Ramakrishna as a mad, God-intoxicated saint. Outwardly...
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The Dakshineswar Temple Garden
It is Sunday. The devotees are free from work, and they have come in numbers to the Temple garden to see Sri Ramakrishna. His door is...
Paramahamsa Yogananda
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The Cosmic Mother
Is God to be thought of only as a vast impersonal Spirit, without form or sex? Or can the Creator be appealed to in some form which is...
Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati
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Art of Seeing God, the Heart of Devotional Worship
(This article, co-authored by Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati and Swami Ambikananda Saraswati, first appeared in the Winter 2001 issue of...
Swami Chetanananda
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About Puja
Swami Chetanananda, a monk of the Ramakrishna Order, is the head of the Vedanta Society of St. Louis. We recently got a chance to ask him...
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