card: > Sanskrit word of the "day": kali... > The word 'kali' in Hinduism appears in Indian literature following the Gupta Age, the so-called 'Golden" age in Indian history.
Kali is depicted as the 'Shakti' of Shiva. According to MMY, meditation is reality at rest or absolute pure concsciousness - Shiva. The dynamic and creative aspect of meditation or the thoughts in the mind, is the active relative aspect of creation - Shakti. For TMers, the absolute Being and the relative becoming are completley separate, Purusha and prakriti. - activity and rest. So, there are two ways of perceiving the same absolute reality; there is the transcendental plane, the plane of pure CC, and there is the active plane, the plane of relative mass, action, and time. According Feuerstein, Shiva symbolizes the pure, absolute consciousness, and Shakti symbolizes the entire content of that consciousness. While Shiva and Shakti appear as two due to Maya, they are ultimately one. In fact, Shiva and Shakti are totally interdependent - one cannot exist without the other, just like a man and his wife are two, yet one and depend on each another. Work cited: 'Tantra: The Path of Ecstasy' By Georg Feuerstein Shambhala, 1998
