What happens when you worship Kali?

During kali puja (like Durga Puja) worshippers honour the goddess Kali in their homes in the form of clay sculptures and in pandals (temporary shrines or open pavilions). She is worshipped at night with Tantric rites and mantras. She is prescribed offerings of red hibiscus flowers, sweets, rice and lentils.
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What are the benefits of Worshipping Kali?

Kali as the transforming power of time can usher us into a new era of global peace and understanding, if we can accept her demand for a real change of consciousness. Kali asks us to live for eternity, not merely for fleeting enjoyments or outer material gains.
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What does Kali God do?

Kali is the Hindu goddess of death, time, and doomsday. She is often associated with sexuality and violence but is also considered a strong mother figure and symbol of motherly love.
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Can we worship Kali at home?

Pujas can be performed in temples and in the home. Kali, the Dark Mother or Black Goddess, is believed to be a deity of all-pervading power. Kali Worshipers perform puja during difficult life circumstances and during times of ease. Kali puja in homes involves meditation and chanting in prepared sacred spaces.
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How do I start Kali worship?

Offer your negative beliefs to Kali.
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Here are some reasons why you would invoke her:
  1. Dissolving limiting beliefs.
  2. Self empowerment.
  3. Facing fears.
  4. Releasing egoic constructs/beliefs.
  5. Changing perspective on life and death.
  6. Liberating yourself from old attachments.
  7. Invite the wild, divine feminine into your life.
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How do I contact Kali?

With a notebook and pen close by, close your eyes and summon Kali inwardly. Ask that the Kali energy in you be present. Ask, “Let me speak to Kali.”
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Why is Kali worshiped?

As she is also the goddess of Preservation, Kali is worshiped as the preserver of nature. Kali is standing calm on Shiva, her appearance represents the preservation of mother nature. Her free, long and black hair represents nature's freedom from civilization.
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What should I offer Kali?

She is worshipped at night with Tantric rites and mantras. She is prescribed offerings of red hibiscus flowers, sweets, rice and lentils. It is prescribed that a worshipper should meditate throughout the night until dawn.
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What does Kali symbolize?

Kali, (Sanskrit: “She Who Is Black” or “She Who Is Death”) in Hinduism, goddess of time, doomsday, and death, or the black goddess (the feminine form of Sanskrit kala, “time-doomsday-death” or “black”).
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What are Kalis powers?

Pyrokinesis – Kali has the ability to summon flames on her arms and use them to immolate her enemies. Telekinesis – Kali could influence her surroundings with a simple look. Biokinesis – She could also inflict bodily harm with a thought, even to other gods making them choke on their own blood just by looking at them.
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What does Kali carry?

Her many hands carry a sword, a trident, a severed head dripping fresh blood, and a kapala or skull cup catching the blood. She is often accompanied by serpents and a jackal. She dances in graveyards. At first glance and without understanding, Kali ma may appear more like a demon and less like a loving goddess.
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How can I get Maa Kali blessing?

10 Tips from Goddess Kali on How to Find Inner Strength
  1. Say Om. Say three Oms, with the intention of creating a space of sacredness.
  2. Contemplate. Spend a few moments in contemplation, recalling the symbology of Kali. ...
  3. Summon Kali. ...
  4. Feel Kali. ...
  5. Start a Dialogue. ...
  6. Continue the Dialogue. ...
  7. Be Aware of Your Breath. ...
  8. Thank Kali.
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Who is stronger Shiva or Kali?

Kali is none of that: Her power and ferociousness are greater than Shiva's, whom she nearly kills by stomping upon him, an image so upsetting to the patriarchy that, explains mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik in Seven Secrets of the Goddess, it was long kept secret.
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What chakra is Kali associated with?

Goddess of the Muladhara Chakra: The Goddess and Shakti, or power of this chakra, is Ḍākinī, one of the faithful attendants of the Goddess Kali.
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Which direction should Kali face?

While an idol or statue of Maa Durga is best suited for the South-Eastern zone, Maa Kaali's idol should be placed facing South.
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What colors represent Kali?

She destroys only to recreate, and what She destroys is sin, ignorance and decay. The Goddess Kali is represented as black in color. Black in the ancient Hindu language of Sanskrit is kaala –the feminine form is kali – so She is Kali, the black one.
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Why does Kali show her tongue?

In Kali temples, the tongue is smeared with the blood of sacrificed animals — a reminder that Mother Nature is — 'red in tooth and claw', giving life as well as taking life.
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Is Kali real?

The KALI (Kilo Ampere Linear Injector) is a linear electron accelerator being developed in India by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). It is said by many organisations and institutes to have directed-energy weapon capabilities.
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What food does Kali like?

She likes ragi millets

Ragi, the red millet, is considered to be the favourite food of the goddess down South. In Tamil Nadu, Ragi Koozhu, or porridge balls made of ragi, is a staple “prasadham” in many Mariamman temples (Mariamman is considered to be an incarnation of Kali.)
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Why does Kali hold a head?

Associated with chaos and uncontrollable destruction, Kali's own retinue brandishes swords and holds aloft skull cups from which they drink the blood that intoxicates them. Kali, like Shiva, has a third eye, but in all other respects the two are distinguished from one another.
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Who is under Kali's feet?

Shiva lying at Kali's feet also symbolises the supremacy of Nature over man. It clearly shows that without Kali or Shakti even a powerful force like Lord Shiva is inert. Hence, Kali is shown as stepping on Shiva's chest.
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How many types of Kali are there?

There are 10 forms of Kali that are prescribed by the scriptures and popularly worshiped by the masses. They are also called the Dasha Mahavidya Kali or the sisterhood of Tantric goddesses. Every avatar of goddess Kali has some significance.
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Does Kali Maa fulfill wishes?

People say that this temple is over 500 years old and goddess Kali Maa had herself visited this place in her 'purna swaroop' to fulfil the wishes of her devotees. It is said that devotees who place a lock here get their wishes fulfilled.
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What does it mean to dream of goddess Kali?

What does it mean to see Kali Mata in a dream? Answer: To see Kali Mata in a dream means to win over enemies.
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