We gave this lecture on Navami, the 9th and culminating day of the Autumn Goddess Festival (navarātri) which is poetic, poignant and fitting because what we discuss here feels to me like a culmination of everything I've experienced and learned at least in the last year if not over the course of my life in Kali so far! This most radical idea is an overture of sorts in my modest understanding of our Mad Mother Divine...
In fact, over the years, we've given some rather radical and non-traditional lectures highlighting some of the subtler nuances in the bhāva (mood, vibe, orientation, approach?) unique to Kali. The ones I'm most proud of (that I mention in the lecture) might be:
because in all these lectures we go beyond the conventional sphere of Tantrik exegesis and in true Ramakrishna fashion, we engage with popular culture, Catholicism and revolutionary movements like the kind we see in Bengal associated with Kali, the Independence movement, for example. But even more exciting to me than all that is when we point out the things that make the theology of Kālī manifestly different in some important ways from the Abrahamic (and most theistic) conceptions of God as a patriarch of order, balance and reason, like we did in Why Kali is Problematic for Abrahamic Theology
As such in much the same vein, this talk explores one of the most thrilling (and for most, chilling) conception of Reality, God and the human quest for meaning.
May it be an offering to Mā Siddhidhātrī, the Performer of Magic Tricks and Cosmic Mischief.
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