This book details the goddess Kali and the culture of devotion to
her in West Bengal and South Asia. The term Adya means primal,
original or archean. Adya Kali is the primordial energy, the
shakti, that creates, preserves, and transforms/dissolves all
existence. She is the womb that births all, and the tomb that
swallows all. In Praise of Adya Kali is different from most
contemporary books about Kali because it offers a liturgy of
worship, a type of spiritual practice (sadhana) that the reader
(both male and female) can use over the course of days, weeks, or
months, to cultivate a direct devotional relationship to Kali. But,
beyond that, In Praise of Adya Kali is a context-setting guide.
Rather than simply recommending that we recite these sacred names,
each one a prayer, the author establishes this practice as a
general orientation to life. Furthermore, and most compelling, the
text and Commentaries on this liturgy contain an intimate
revelation of how the goddess establishes herself in her devotees'
bodies and thus intervenes, by unconditional love and acceptance,
in their lives. A lengthy Introduction, both scholarly and
personal, describes the goddess and the possibilities that these
prayers will offer. Aditi Devi guides us in how to build a shrine
to Kali, various types of offerings to make to her, and suggests a
schedule for how to use this liturgy with a long-term commitment
over the course of 108 nights. This book presents a serious
practice, not for the faint-hearted. It requires courage, strength
and joy to permit the goddess's energy to slowly, sensuously and
irrevocably be invoked-conceived, allowed to gestate, birthed
according to her will. And while the orientation here is toward
realizing her sacred presence in the "womb" of the devotee, the
practice can be undertaken by anyone. The physical form of the body
is not a limitation, as the author notes: "In this lineage we
practice into the depths of whatever form we have, & arise from
within that, knowing that we are her, male or female. This Song of
the Hundred Names is a powerful teaching that all forms are her
forms." Male, female or other gendered, we are presented with the
possibility to experience the depths of our own internal feminine
energies & thereby come into greater healing & wholeness,
more readily able to express this often neglected part of
ourselves. Aditi Devi's long study & spiritual practice within
living tantric lineages in South Asia has made this book possible.
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