Immortal Mahakali and Her Mortal Critics

Abstract

Mother Kali, the Adishakti or Mahashakti, is being worshipped from ancient time. She has her presence in large number of countries worldwide. The principal deity of the Tantric cult, she has many outstanding devotees in modern time like Sadhak Ramprasad, Sri Rmakrishna and Sri Aurobindo. She was adored by Swami Vivekananda, Sister Nivedita (Margaret Elizabeth Noble), William Blake, Robert Burns and Walt Whitman. A fierce deity who destroys all the redundant and waste beings and matters for cleansing the society paving the way for newcreation, is adored by the strong and the great. Not only that she is worshipped in India and some other countries worldwide, she has been much abused and criticised too. The words like Kali and Tantra have been misunderstood and misused like the word Yoga. She has been on the focal point in a modern poem and a film. The poem and the film have been critically assessed and their places fixed. A justification of her inevitable existence and acts has been made in view of the fact that she is the power aspect of the divinity; a Mother who intensely loves her children who are the real devotees and clears their way to progress.