From omkali-l-owner@hollyfeld.org Mon Jan 5 12:56:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: from ns2.accesscom.com (ns2.accesscom.com [205.226.156.3]) by shell.accesscom.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA19917 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 12:56:49 -0800 Received: from bay2.bjt.net (root@bay2.bjt.net [207.201.6.2]) by ns2.accesscom.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA16509 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 12:56:47 -0800 Received: from veracruz-gw.customer.itw.net (veracruz-gw.customer.ITW.NET [208.211.5.42]) by bay2.bjt.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA20335 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 12:55:27 -0800 Received: from maildeliver0.tiac.net ([199.0.65.19]) by veracruz-gw.customer.itw.net (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO205-101c) ID# 1-666L) with ESMTP id AAA43 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 15:57:33 -0500 Received: from www.hollyfeld.org (majordom@dns.hollyfeld.org [204.130.199.1]) by maildeliver0.tiac.net (8.8.7/8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06437; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 15:55:55 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by www.hollyfeld.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA11211 for omkali-l-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 15:56:15 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: www.hollyfeld.org: majordom set sender to owner-omkali-l@hollyfeld.org using -f Received: from ns2.accesscom.com (ns2.accesscom.com [205.226.156.3]) by www.hollyfeld.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id PAA11185 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 15:51:45 -0500 Received: from shell.accesscom.com (tyagi@shell.accesscom.com [205.226.156.10]) by ns2.accesscom.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA16338 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 12:50:47 -0800 Received: (from tyagi@localhost) by shell.accesscom.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA19658 for omkali-l@hollyfeld.org; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 12:50:48 -0800 Message-Id: <199801052050.MAA19658@shell.accesscom.com> Subject: (OM) Kali (Kinsley) To: omkali-l@hollyfeld.org (omkali-l Elist) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 12:50:48 -0800 (PST) From: nagasiva@yronwode.com (nagasiva) Orientation: House of Kaos, St. Joseph, Kali Fornika, US -- Kali Yuga X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-omkali-l@hollyfeld.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: omkali-l@hollyfeld.org Status: RO [from http://www.eden.com/~poke/kali/ ] Kali Kali's boon is won when man confronts or accepts her and the realities she dramatically conveys to him. The image of Kali, in a variety of ways, teaches man that pain, sorrow, decay, death, and destruction are not to be overcome or conquered by denying them or explaining them away. Pain and sorrow are woven into the texture of man's life so thoroughly that to deny them is ultimately futile and foolish. For man to realize the fullness of his being, for man to exploit his potential as a human being, he must finally accept his dimension of existence. Kali's boon is freedom, the freedom of the the child to revel in the moment, and it is won only after confrontation or acceptance of death. Ramakrishna's childlike nature does not stem from his ignorance of things as they are but from his realization of things as they really are. He is able to revel in the moment, for he knows that to live any other way is a denial of things as they are. To ignore death, to pretend that one is physically immortal, to pretend that one's ego is the center of things, is to provoke Kali's mocking laughter. To confront or accept death, on the contrary, is to realize a mode of being that can delight and revel in the play of the Gods. To accept one's mortality is to be able to act superfluously, to let go, to be able to sing, dance, and shout. The Sword and the Flute - David R. Kinsley EOF