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Ma Kali, what is she doing? Indiscriminately killing everyone!
[Kali, Ganesh and Shiva]
We know women can get very angry …
She’s not only killing the demons,
she’s killing her own people.
That’s intense.
So Mahādev, he lies before her on the ground
and when she steps on his chest, she looks down and she goes …
like, “Oops!”
And then she stops.
But it’s mentioned in Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛtam, interestingly,
in that section—
Nārada and Śiva: Nārada’s praising Śiva, Śiva’s deflecting all the praise
and saying what a bad person he is.
Devotees are extraordinary. “Vaiṣṇavam amṛtam Śambu.”
He’s saying, “So many times I fight with Kṛṣṇa and His …”
Sometimes Guru Mahārāj would say,
“Gaṇesh. Gaṇa Īśa. Gaṇapati.”
He said, “He’s the leader of the people.”
He said it’s like democracy.
Leader of the opposition.
So Śiva's saying, “We are the leaders of the opposition to Kṛṣṇa
in so many instances,”
and he said, “and not only that; I’m ashamed to say
that I even wanted to be greater than Kṛṣṇa.
Such a shameless person I am.”
But Sanātan Goswāmī says,
“What he means to say is,
‘Who is greater than Kṛṣṇa?
Who can be considered greater than Kṛṣṇa
but the devotees of Kṛṣṇa?’”
So it’s his way of saying
“I wanted to be a devotee of Kṛṣṇa.
That’s my aspiration.”
So very beautiful. But he’s made that
into something that’s self-deprecating.
Anyway, they're going back and forth—
Nārada insisting; Śiva deflecting, deferring.
But Pārvatī, she’s listening to all of this,
their conversation,
and she’s thinking, “I don’t hear anything out there about the female section!”
And then she begins to speak, and it’s very beautiful.
And there Sanātan Goswāmī says,
“Actually, she can give bhakti.
She can give devotion, she can liberate, she can do everything.”
Chāyeva yasya bhuvanāni bibharti Durgā (Bs: 5.44).
The shadow of Hlādinī-śakti.
The shadow representation of Rādhārāṇī and Vraja-gopīs.
Saraswatī Ṭhākur says, “Durga-devī is a Vraja-gopī in Goloka.”
So of course it’s rare, but they can.
It’s by the grace of the devotees
that Kṛṣṇa conception is extended.