Kālī Mahāvidyā

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Kali is first among the Ten Great Wisdom Goddess, the Dasa Mahāvidyā. Seated in the cave of the heart, she brings about spiritual and material transformation, burning  away impurities and cutting through delusion.

“Resuming after dissolution Your own nature dark and formless, You alone remain as One, ineffable and inconceivable. You are the beginning of all, creator, protector and destroyer that You are.
… Taking the form of the Void, in the robe of darkness wrapped, who art Thou, Mother, seated alone in the shrine of samadhi? From the lotus of Thy fear-scattering feet flash the lightnings of love. Thy spirit-face shines forth with laughter wild and loud.” —bhajan from biography of Sri Ramakrishna