The Kiss of Death – Destroyer of Death (12 Kalis #6)

The sixth Kali: Mṛtyukālī – Destroyer of Death

Destruction/protection in the cycle of subjectivity. The sixth expansion*.

The Kiss of Death – Painting by Claudia Dose
12 x 12 x 0.75 inch, (30.48 x 30.48 x 1.9 cm)

6. Mṛityukālī.
मामेत्यहंकारकलाकलाप-
विस्फारहर्षौद्धतगर्वमृत्युः।
ग्रस्तो यया घस्मरसंविदं तां
नमामि कालोदितमृत्युकलीम् ॥६॥

mamety-ahaṁkāra-kalā kalāpa-
visphā raharṣoddhata-garva-mṛityuḥ /
grasto yayā ghasmara saṁvidaṁ tāṁ
namāmi kālodita mṛityu kālīm //6//

Obeisance to that voracious consciousness known as Mṛityukālī, who beyond time limitation rises unexpectedly. She devours death, which appears in the form of arrogance inflamed by a joyful excitement expanding itself to all ego activities when the notion of ownership expresses itself in the idea “this is mine.”

Before the intervention of Mṛityukālī, the agent of the self who says to himself: ‘I have known the object’, knowing that he knows remains a witness, he still perceives his organs objectively and directs them, so he remains subject to duality and deprived of true spontaneity. But when Mṛityukālī has completed her task and put an end to this form of knowledge, the objects no longer differ from the subject, and the subject shines constantly as a pure pramātṛ endowed with an intuitive and stable knowledge. The conscious energy thus absorbs the previous subject while the influence of the differentiated disappears and with it the pride (abhimāna), hence a return to the undifferentiated.

Differentiated knowledge being included in the undifferentiated Self from which Mṛtyukālī extracts it, kal– here has the meaning of jñāna.

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