कालरात्रिः! / kAlarAtri

The sixth Phase / Face / Form of देवी / devI.

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The next form of the Consciousness is named after "Time", that is a manifestation / expression of the Supreme, Who is Lord Shiva deathless,  Beginningless, and hence omnipresent. ... :

"अक्षरात्संजायते कालो कालाद् व्यापकः उच्यते... "

As is described in the :

 शिव-अथर्वशीर्षम् / shiva-atharva-sheershaM.

In this way "Time" came into existence.

This is the "Time" if the Physicists :

Gita chapter 10 points out :

प्रह्लादश्चास्मि दैत्यानां कालः कलयतामहम् ।

मृगाणां च मृगेन्द्रोऽहं वैनतेयश्च पक्षिणाम् ।।३०।।

This is what is "Time" in terms of measurability. Only after arising of the intellect / imagination  (बुद्धि), the notion of "Time" appears in the mind.

As soon as the earth as a material-mass took place into its orbit, there was the 'day'  in the half part of the sphere, that is the earth. Yet in the another half there was the 'night'.

"Time" or the physical time on earth began when the earth started revolving around the sun. 

"Time" and "Space" are two aspects of the one and the same essential Reality, and according to the "अथर्वण" / "atharvaNa", nothing else could be 'before' the arrival of the "Time", and we could say, this 'before', 'during' and 'after' are but the  aspects of "Time" only.

Again, कालरात्रि / kalarAtri .

A distant echo of this term could be found in the proverbial phrase : 

"The dark night of the soul".

That is when and how this conscious evolution  comes across ignorance of the Self / Reality and obscured in the intellect (बुद्धि) falls a prey to this ignorance and conflict.

Gita, chapter 7 points out :

इच्छाद्वेषसमुत्थेन द्वंद्वमोहेन भारत ।

सर्वभूतानि सम्मोहं सर्गे यान्ति परन्तप ।।२७।।

And, how in the individual, this consciousness -principle is covered under this ignorance and conflict from the very birth itself, and no one is exception to this.

This ignorance and conflict in consciousness-principle is never be a collective phenomenon, but a universal truth only.

This is what "कालरात्रिः" / "kalarAtri" all about.

This is the seventh Phase / Face / Form of :

देवी / devI. Who is worshipped on the sixth day of the  नवरात्र / navarAtra festival.

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