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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...

Swami Ambikananda Saraswati
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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 Chetanananda
10 min read


Kali in Kashmir Shaivism
From the teachings of Swami Lakshmanjoo

Swami Lakshmanjoo
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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)....

Dr. Lex Hixon
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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...

Elizabeth Usha Harding
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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...

Swami Sivananda Saraswati
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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...

Sri Haradhan Chakraborty
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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 Bhajanananda Saraswati
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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...

Swami Vivekananda
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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...

Mahendranath Gupta (M.)
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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
7 min read


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...

Elizabeth Usha Harding
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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...

Antonio Valeriano
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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 Chidananda Saraswati
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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 Vivekananda
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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 Ambikananda Saraswati
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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 Chetanananda
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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...

Swami Nirmalananda Giri (Abbot George Burke)
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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...

Colin Robinson
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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...

Elizabeth Usha Harding
6 min read


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...
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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...

Paramahamsa Yogananda
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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 Bhajanananda Saraswati
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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...

Swami Chetanananda
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