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| Since untold centuries, even long before villages sprang up, the people of South-India have been worshipping the Goddess in Her fierce, Kali-like form of MARIAMMAN. Mariamman embodies the sacred energies and evolutionary forces of Mother Earth. She is related to the Kundalini fire raising up from the Muladhara Chakra. However, She is infinitely more than just that. Great saints like Swami Premananda worship Her as an integral aspect of ADI PARA SHAKTI, the Matrix and Mother of the entire cosmic manifestation... For Her truly surrendered devotees, She shatters all their attachments and preconceived notions of reality. If Kali is looked upon as the awakening force of death, Mariamman is related to diseases and fevers, especially to the lethal affliction of feverish clinging to the illusions of an ego-oriented way of life... |
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