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Final liberation is attained by the knowledge that the atma is the
witness, is the truth, is omnipresent, is one, free from all deluding
distractions of self and not-self, the supreme, and though abiding in
the body is not in the body. - Mahanirvana Tantra XIV, 116.
[The following stotra (hymn), published in the Kali Rahasya, a Kali puja
compendium, is intended to stave off bad fortune and give success.
However, it also touches on many of the hidden left-hand (vamachara)
practices of Kali. It is translated here into English for the first
time.]
Shri Mahakala said: Listen, dearest, to Dakshina's supreme secret, very
hidden and difficult to obtain, her very marvellous hymn known as the
Hridaya. Unvocalised before, I reveal it now because of your love. It
should be concealed from others! This is true, true, O Mountain Born
One.
Shri Devi said: Shambhu Maheshvara, ocean of compassion, in which yuga
did my hymn arise, and how was it created? Tell me all of this.
Shri Mahakala said: A long time ago I decapitated Prajapati, and due to
this evil act of slaying a brahmana came to be Bhairava (1). I created
this hymn to destroy the sin of brahminicide, dearest. This hymn
destroys the consequence of killing brahmins (2).
Application: Om. Shri Mahakala is the rishi of this heart mantra of Shri
Dakshina Kalika. Ushnik is the metre. Shri Dakshina Kalika is the
devata. Krim is the bija. Hrim is the shakti. Namah is the peg. Its
application follows from its continual recitation.
Heart nyasa etc.
Om. Kram to the heart namah.
Om. Krim to the head svaha.
Om. Krum to the peak vasat.
Om. Kraim to the armour hum.
Om. Kraum to the three eyes vausat.
Om. Krah to the missile Phat.
Meditate on Kali Mahamaya with three eyes, of different forms, with four
arms, a rolling tongue, bright as a full moon, the colour of a blue
night lotus, dispeller of the assembly of enemies, holding a man's
skull, a sword, a lotus, and giving boons.
Her mouth is bloody and fanged, she has a fear inspiring form, she is
addicted to very loud laughter and completely naked.
The Devi sits on a corpse and is adorned with a garland of skulls. After
meditating on Mahadevi like this, then read the Hridaya.
Om Kalika, primordial and terrifying form, bestower of the fruit of all
desires, hymned by all gods, destroy my enemies.
Hrim, you who are the essence of Hrim, the most excellent thing in the
three worlds, hard to obtain, out of love for me, deny anything
whatsoever to he whom I name!
Now I speak of the meditation, O supreme self, the essence of night.
Whoever knows this becomes liberated while still living.
Meditate on her having dishevelled and matted hair, decorated with
strings of serpents, a half moon as her diadem, in union with Mahakala.
Boon giver, visualising her like this causes all people to become
liberated in every way. This is true, true.
Now listen to the yantra of the supreme goddess, the giver of success in
whatsoever is desired. Hide this greatly quintessential secret of
secrets with every effort.
The Kali yantra, the giver of true siddhi, is made from five triangles,
an eight petal lotus, surrounded by a bhupura, and encompassed by skulls
and funeral pyres (3). The mantra, previously spoken of, should always
be worn on the body dearest!
Now Devi Dakshina Kali's garland of names is revealed: Kali, Dakshina
Kali, black of body, the supreme self, wearing a garland of skulls,
large eyed, cause of creation and dissolution, self of maintenance,
Mahamaya, the power of yoga, the essence of good fortune, the female
serpent, intoxicated with wine, the sacrificial offering, with the
vagina as her banner, primordial one, always ninefold, terrifying, the
greatly effulgent one, formidable, with a corpse as her vehicle, Siddhi
Lakshmi, Niruddha, Sarasvati.
Whoever recites this garland of names daily causes me to become their
slave. Maheshvari, this is true, true.
Kali, destroyer of time, goddess of skeletal form, taking the form of a
raven, blacker than black, I worship you O Dakshina Kalika!
I bow to you Kalika, Maharaudri, fond of the night, Devi liking kunda,
gola and svayambhu flowers (4).
I bow to you Duti (5), the Duti causing yoga to arise from sexual
intercourse, you who are the great Duti, fond of Dutis, the supreme
Duti, the Lady of Yoga.
Those who recite the mantra Krim seven times over water and then
sprinkle themselves with it destroy all disease. There is no question
about this.
Those who seek any object who charge sandal paste with the great mantra
Krim Svaha and then make a forehead mark of it become the most
intelligent of people, and always able to subjugate.
Dearest, those who offer unhusked rice while reciting the mantra Krim
Hram Hrim seven times, destroy great worries and obstacles, there is no
doubt of it.
Those who pronounce the mantra Krim Hrim Hrum Svaha over the cremation
pyre, then encircle the house of their enemies with the ashes kill their
enemies.
Those who offer seven flowers and pronounce the mantra Hrum Hrim Krim
uproot their foes, no doubt of it.
If, after reciting Krim Krim Krim, while offering unhusked rice, it
causes the object of attraction to swiftly come from a distance of even
1,000 yojanas (6).
Those who recite the mantra Krim Krim Krim Hrum Hrum Hrim Hrim seven
times, purifying water and making a forehead mark of it, delude the
whole world.
Parameshani, this Hridaya is the destroyer of all evil, a million
million times greater than Ashvamedha and other sacrifices. The fruit it
gives is one million million times better than the offerings given to
virgins (7). Its results, it is said, are greater by one million million
than those obtained from offering to Dutis.
It is a million times greater than the results obtained from bathing in
the Ganges and other sacred waters. Reciting it only once bestows these
results. This is true, true, I swear it.
The initiated person who, after worshipping a kumari of beautiful form,
and then recites this hymn, becomes liberated whilst living, O
Maheshani.
If, after having seen the vagina full of menses, one should recite it
with one-pointed mind, Varanane! he gains the supreme place in Deviloka,
the heaven of the goddess.
In great sorrow, suffering great disease, in great conflicts, in great
anxieties, in fearful terrifying places, if one should recite this
ultimate stotra. (one is freed from them) in a day.
This is true, true and again true. It should be hidden like a mother's
yoni.
Notes
(1) This story is related in the Skanda Purana. Brahma liked his
daughter and wanted to couple with her. But that didn't meet with the
approval of Shiva, who cut off his fifth head. Brahma and Shiva had a
great fight, which the latter won. Shiva, however, had committed the sin
of killing a Brahmin, an act requiring expiation. Forever afterwards,
Shiva in his form of Bhairava, the terrible one, bears the fifth head of
Brahma.
(2) So followers of Shiva have a licence to kill brahmins! This probably
stems from a time when the Aryan race was entering India and faced
opposition from the indigenous tribes already occupying the
subcontinent.
(3) Kali has eight different cremation grounds. They are enumerated in
the voluminous work called the Mahakalasamhita, Guhyakali Khanda.
(4) The three primary types of menstrual blood in the tantrik tradition.
(5) Duti means messenger. Yet the meaning is She who makes Shiva Her
messenger.
(6) A Hindu measure of distance.
(7) Kumari Puja - to this day performed in Nepal, where a young girl is
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