Hello All,
Does anyone here have experience praying to Kali Mata?
My family learned a while back that She is our Kuldevi (family goddess). I would like to pray to Her but I am afraid to. Is the following mantra "safe" to recite:
Om Jayanti Mangala Kali
Bhadrakali Kapalini
Durga Kshama Shiva Dhatri
Swaaha Swadha Namostute
I am looking for a simple Sattvik mantra. I will also be grateful if you can share any information about her. Thanks!
This translation pops up.
Om. She Who Conquers Over All, All-Auspicious, the remover of Darkness, the Excellent One Beyond Time, the bearer of the Skulls of Impure thought, the reliever of difficulties, loving, forgiveness, supporter of the Universe, take the oblations of the devotee who is one with you, take the oblations ancestral praise, We bow to you.
It’s a bit wordy but my rudimentary knowledge of Sanskrit says this is the gist of it.
Jayanti, victorious.
Mangala, auspicious.
Bhadra, “good”, i.e. benevolent.
Durga, invincible.
Kshama, forgiveness.
Swaha and svadha are chanted during fire oblations.
That’s the gist of it.
Here is Her gayatri mantra.
I chant these along with those of other deities in my (not always) daily puja. I’ve never feared Mother Kālī though I naturally respect and revere Her. I have a short story (yes, it really is short... for me)...
The house we lived in, we’ve since moved, dhanyavad Bhagavan! felt “sick”. There was just something wrong with it. My tulsi plants died, no matter how many times I tried to raise them. She just wouldn’t stay there.
Anyway, the house felt particularly “off” and infected one day. I just had a creepy feeling. I said that’s it, I’ve had enough. I lit some sage and incense, opened the doors and windows, walked around the house with it, ringing my puja bell, and saying “I don’t know or care who or what the **** you are, but if I were you I would haul *** out of here before I call on Kālī Mā to kick your *** into the next dimension. The feeling of creepiness immediately left.
Granted, I am a superstitious man, but...