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             slightly reformatted for Usenet; aum krim namah kali - tn]


                               THE HEART OF KALI
                                       
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   "Final liberation is attained by the knowledge that the atma is the
   witness, is the truth, is omnipresent, is one, free from all deluding
   distractions of self and not-self, the supreme, and though abiding in
   the body is not in the body." - Mahanirvana Tantra XIV, 116.
   
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   Shri Mahakala said: Listen, dearest, to Dakshina's supreme secret,
   very hidden and difficult to obtain, her very marvellous hymn known as
   the Hridaya. Unvocalised before, I reveal it now because of your love.
   It should be concealed from others! This is true, true, O Mountain
   Born One.
   
   Shri Devi said: Shambhu Maheshvara, ocean of compassion, in which yuga
   did my hymn arise, and how was it created?
   
   Shri Mahakala said: A long time ago I decapitated Prajapati, and due
   to this evil act of slaying a brahmana came to be Bhairava (1). I
   created this hymn to destroy the sin of brahminicide, dearest. This
   hymn destroys the consequence of killing brahmins (2).
   
   Application: Om. Shri Mahakala is the rishi of this heart mantra of
   Shri Dakshina Kalika. Ushnik is the metre. Shri Dakshina Kalika is the
   devatĖ. Krim is the bija. Hrim is the shakti. Namah is the peg. Its
   application follows from its continual recitation.
   
Heart nyasa etc.

   Om. Kram to the heart namah.
   Om. Krim to the head svaha.
   Om. Krum to the peak vasat.
   Om. Kraim to the armour hum.
   Om. Kraum to the three eyes vausat.
   Om. Krah to the missile Phat.
   
   Meditate on Kali Mahamaya with three eyes, of different forms, with
   four arms, a rolling tongue, bright as a full moon, the colour of a
   blue night lotus, dispeller of the assembly of enemies, holding a

   man's skull, a sword, a lotus, and giving boons.
   
   Her mouth is bloody and fanged, she has a fear inspiring form, she is
   addicted to very loud laughter and completely naked.
   
   The Devi sits on a corpse and is adorned with a garland of skulls.
   After meditating on Mahadevi like this, then read the Hridaya.
   
   Om Kalika, primordial and terrifying form, bestower of the fruit of
   all desires, hymned by all gods, destroy my enemies.
   
   Hrim, you who are the essence of Hrim, the most excellent thing in the
   three worlds, hard to obtain, out of love for me, deny anything
   whatsoever to he whom I name!
   
   Now I speak of the meditation, O supreme self, the essence of night.
   Whoever knows this becomes liberated while still living.
   
   Meditate on her having dishevelled and matted hair, decorated with
   strings of serpents, a half moon as her diadem, in union with
   Mahakala.
   
   Boon giver, visualising her like this causes all people to become
   liberated in every way. This is true, true.
   
   Now listen to the yantra of the supreme goddess, the giver of success
   in whatsoever is desired. Hide this greatly quintessential secret of
   secrets with every effort.
   
   The Kali yantra, the giver of true siddhi, is made from five
   triangles, an eight petal lotus, surrounded by a bhupura, and
   encompassed by skulls and funeral pyres (3). The mantra, previously
   spoken of, should always be worn on the body dearest!
   
   Now Devi Dakshina Kali's garland of names is revealed: Kali, Dakshina
   Kali, black of body, the supreme self, wearing a garland of skulls,
   large eyed, cause of creation and dissolution, self of maintenance,
   Mahamaya, the power of yoga, the essence of good fortune, the female
   serpent, intoxicated with wine, the sacrificial offering, with the
   vagina as her banner, primordial one, always ninefold, terrifying, the
   greatly effulgent one, formidable, with a corpse as her vehicle,
   Siddhi Lakshmi, Niruddha, Sarasvati.
   
   Whoever recites this garland of names daily causes me to become their
   slave. Maheshvari, this is true, true.
   
   Kali, destroyer of time, goddess of skeletal form, taking the form of
   a raven, blacker than black, I worship you O Dakshina Kalika!
   
   I bow to you Kalika, Maharaudri, fond of the night, Devi liking kunda,
   gola and svayambhu flowers (4).
   
   I bow to you Duti (5), the Duti causing yoga to arise from sexual
   intercourse, you who are the great Duti, fond of Dutis, the supreme
   Duti, the Lady of Yoga.
   
   Those who recite the mantra Krim seven times over water and then
   sprinkle themselves with it destroy all disease. There is no question
   about this.
   
   Those who seek any object who charge sandal paste with the great
   mantra Krim Svaha and then make a forehead mark of it become the most
   intelligent of people, and always able to subjugate.
   
   Dearest, those who offer unhusked rice while reciting the mantra Krim
   Hram Hrim seven times, destroy great worries and obstacles, there is
   no doubt of it.
   
   Those who pronounce the mantra Krim Hrim Hrum Svaha over the cremation
   pyre, then encircle the house of their enemies with the ashes kill
   their enemies.
   
   Those who offer seven flowers and pronounce the mantra Hrum Hrim Krim
   uproot their foes, no doubt of it.
   
   If, after reciting Krim Krim Krim, while offering unhusked rice, it
   causes the object of attraction to swiftly come from a distance of
   even 1,000 yojanas (6).
   
   Those who recite the mantra Krim Krim Krim Hrum Hrum Hrim Hrim seven
   times, purifying water and making a forehead mark of it, delude the
   whole world.
   
   Parameshani, this Hridaya is the destroyer of all evil, a million
   million times greater than Ashvamedha and other sacrifices. The fruit
   it gives is one million million times better than the offerings given
   to virgins (7). Its results, it is said, are greater by one million
   million than those obtained from offering to Dutis.
   
   It is a million times greater than the results obtained from bathing
   in the Ganges and other sacred waters. Reciting it only once bestows
   these results. This is true, true, I swear it.
   
   The initiated person who, after worshipping a kumari of beautiful
   form, and then recites this hymn, becomes liberated whilst living, O
   Maheshani.

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   Notes
   
   (1) This story is related in the Skanda Purana. BrahmĖ liked his
   daughter and wanted to couple with her. But that didn't meet with the
   approval of Shiva, who cut off his fifth head. Brahma and Shiva had a
   great fight, which the latter won. Shiva, however, had committed the
   sin of killing a Brahmin, an act requiring expiation. Forever
   afterwards, Shiva in his form of Bhairava, the terrible one, bears the
   fifth head of Brahma.
   
   (2) So followers of Shiva have a licence to kill brahmins! This
   probably stems from a time when the Aryan race was entering India and
   faced opposition from the indigenous tribes already occupying the
   subcontinent.
   
   (3) Kali has eight different cremation grounds. They are enumerated in
   the huge work called the Mahakalasamhita, Guhyakali Khanda.
   
   (4) The three primary types of menstrual blood in the tantrik
   tradition.
   
   (5) Duti means messenger. Yet the meaning is She who makes Shiva Her
   messenger.
   
   (6) A Hindu measure of distance.
   
   (7) Kumari Puja - to this day performed in Nepal, where a young girl
   is treated as an incarnation of the goddess.
   
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   Artwork is (c© Jan Bailey, 1995. Translations are (c© Mike Magee 1995. 
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