Hindu Goddess Kali Is a Jedi
Righteous warriors who honor truth and justice with fury
I related so very much to Katrina Bos’ very well-written piece The Hindu Goddesses Durga & Kali Give Us the Strength to Uphold Kindness & Truth in Jean Carfantan’s publication Queen’s Children (all of her flowers across the fields of Medium that she cross-pollinates are well written). I particularly identify with Kali.
As stated in Encyclopedia Brittanica:
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”). Kali’s origins can be traced to the deities of the village, tribal, and mountain cultures of South Asia who were gradually appropriated and transformed, if never quite tamed, by the Sanskritic traditions. She makes her first major appearance in Sanskrit culture in the Devi Mahatmya (“The Glorifications of the Goddess,” c. 6th century CE). Kali’s iconography, cult, and mythology commonly associate her not only with death but also with sexuality, violence, and, paradoxically, in some later traditions, with motherly love.
I do not see Kali’s association with motherly love as paradoxical at all. It is always the mother who we associate with a fierce defense of her children, not the male of a species.
Katrina writes of Kali:
Kali is not evil. The power of Kali rises against falsehoods — especially at a systemic level. If there is a person in authority who is causing pain and suffering or when you are confronted with an oppressive institution that is so entrenched and powerful, the only thing you can do is to tear it down from its roots. The only way forward is through complete destruction.
I have written in Queen’s Children about my transformation from someone who let strong-willed people walk all over me to a Jedi, as what now drives me from my core is the karmic intention to demand accountability from those who inflict pain and justice for those who suffer it.
That piece contains these links regarding my David vs. Goliath (Medium) quest regarding the bully Jonathan Greene.
I recently followed up that story with this piece in Know Thyself, Heal Thyself, with which Katrina engaged meaningfully and with wisdom, being the only person to highlight “the title [The Return of the Jedi] evokes Anakin’s return from Darkness.”
Katrina connected with my interpretation of the relationship between the Empire / Darth Vader and the Jedi:
By cladding the stormtroopers in white, George Lucas gave us a hint that the story involved much deeper concepts than the human-constructed binaries of good and evil. Darth Vader, the former Jedi Anakin Skywalker, did not become evil — rather his ego became so dependent on the trappings of attachment that his soul became imprisoned by the darkness that enveloped his ego. Logic devoid of emotion. Pure animus. Divine masculine unchecked by the divine feminine.
Fast forward to the end of Episode VI, when the expanded light of Luke’s soul, his love for the father he never knew, and Anakin’s love for his about-to-die-at-the-hands-of-darkness-son release Anakin from Darth’s cage and Anakin vanquishes the Emperor — I just realized after all these years why Episode VI is called The Return of the Jedi — for all these years I thought it referred to Luke returning from training with Yoda — no — the title evokes Anakin’s return from Darkness!!
Those thoughts of mine remind me now of one of the very first essays I wrote on Medium:
divine feminine somehow became the term for soul while divine masculine became the term for human; and the not so nice story is that for millennia souls have been losing the battle, which doesn’t surprise me as most would find life in Heaven boring, and that may be why so many souls agree to endure ever more pain life cycle after life cycle.
I wrote in my KTHT piece that the Jedi:
represent the harmonious balance between the two poles of divinity and they exist to maintain order in the 3D reality and balance in the two sides of the Force…. [Like Kali], they do not turn the other cheek in the face of oppression — they stand and fight for those who choose not to defend themselves. Those that have the courage to speak nothing but truth despite the opinions of society, cannot be turned to the Darkside no matter what travails life has tested them with and no matter how much darkness has touched their lives.
Speaking of darkness, it is my opinion that the writer-removal incident resulted from a deliberate attack upon Illumination and KTHT, because as far as I have ascertained, only these two pubs were affected. If it were a glitch as all the well-meaning ostriches would like to believe, it would not have affected just two pubs. I do not for a second believe that Medium is maliciously at fault, yet gross negligence looms large, for which it would have liability for damages if any were suffered. A sophisticated internet service platform should have security protocols in place to scan every submission for malicious code. As Thewriteyard wrote yesterday with joking prescience, there is a saboteur in our midst. You better hope Medium finds you before I do, because while Medium will sweep this under the rug, I will report your violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to the FBI, and you will face up to 10 years in prison.
Speaking of the dirt under the rug, momentum is patiently building….J’Accuse! now has over 1,100 claps,
and this one will probably surpass it soon.
In Rama I Create,
Marcus (derives from the Latin word for hammer)