Question

speech on Kali puja in 100 words

Answer 1

In Bengal the Kali Puja is the most important religious ceremony. It comes next to the Durga Puja. The goddess Kali is another form of the goddess Durga to play an important role. Thus Kali comes to be another name for Durga. She is called mother Shakti.

Answer 2

Kali, the goddess is the Shakti of Siva. She is called by names including Sati, Parvati, Durga, Uma, Bhavan

From the mythical point of view she represents the supreme realization of truth, the state beyond manifestation. She also symbolizes eternal time and hence she both gives life and destroys it.

She is depicted as a hideous four-armed emaciated woman with fang-like teeth, who devours all beings.

She holds a pasa (noose), Khatvanga (skull-topped staff), Khadga (sword) and a severed head. The weapons denote her powers of destruction; the severed head, that there is no escape from time and that individual lives and deaths are merely minute episodes in the time continuum.

This is also the significance of her association with crematoria and burial grounds. Her naked­ness indicates that she has stripped off all the veils of existence and the illusion (maya) arising them. Her only garment is space. Thus she is also described as black, the colour in which all distinctions are dissolved; or she is eternal night, in the midst of which she stands upon ‘non-existence’, the static but potentially dynamic state that precedes manifestation.