tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post1170148962619875290..comments2023-11-05T04:09:26.194-05:00Comments on e g r e g o r e s: Alas, the Lord is upon meApuleius Platonicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11761230673724504084noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post-29106915434816727242010-08-20T11:56:23.536-04:002010-08-20T11:56:23.536-04:00The text given in the post, if referring to Chinna...The text given in the post, if referring to Chinnamasta, does not reflect knowledge of the deity or anything more than a lurid colonialist view. <br /><br />Your exposition unfortunately reinforces these uninformed perceptions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post-74028555914554398552010-08-19T21:53:51.266-04:002010-08-19T21:53:51.266-04:00Toward the end of the video (just after 5:05) ther...Toward the end of the video (just after 5:05) there is what looks to me to be a very direct visual allusion to Chinnamasta. Adam Darski (Nergal) is a very serious student of comparative religions. He has a strong classics background, and is very interested in Hinduism, although he is not a Hindu (that I know of).Apuleius Platonicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11761230673724504084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post-38476030828563319642010-08-19T19:29:09.605-04:002010-08-19T19:29:09.605-04:00What is the implied meaning of the two items conne...What is the implied meaning of the two items connected in this post?<br /><br />The second, the drawing, is of the Hindu deity Chinnamasta, one of the ten Mahavidyas (Great Wisdom). <br />She severed her own head so that the streams of her own blood could quench the thirst of her Yoginis.<br /><br />Chhinnamasta is the Great Cosmic Power who helps the sincere and devoted yogi to dissolve his or her mind, including all preconceived ideas, attachments and habits into Pure Divine Consciousness. <br /><br />The severed head also suggests the separation of the mind from the body, that is the freedom of the consciousness from the material confines of the physical body.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com