Kali : The Tantric Goddess of Time and Liberation: Text, Metaphysics, Ritual, and the Architecture of Radical Freedom
Overview
Kālī stands at the centre of one of the most daring theological developments in Hindu philosophy.
Far beyond the popular image of a fearsome goddess adorned with skulls, she represents a profound articulation of time, dissolution, sovereignty, and liberation within Śākta and Tantric traditions.
In this sustained and text-grounded study, Dr Bhaskar Bora explores Kālī's emergence from the Devī Māhātmya through the Kālikā Purāṇa and later Tantric systems, examining:
- The evolution of fierce goddess theology
- Ritual sacrifice and sacred kingship in Assam's Śākta landscape
- Cremation-ground symbolism and mortality consciousness
- Nondual metaphysics and the identity of time (kāla) with the Goddess
- Liberation reframed as structural recognition within consciousness
Bringing together scripture, ritual analysis, historical development, and philosophical inquiry, this book restores depth to a figure too often misunderstood.
Kālī is not merely a goddess of destruction.
She is a theology of time.
She is a grammar of radical freedom.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798250378673
- ISBN-10: 9798250378673
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: March 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.87 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.26 pounds
- Page Count: 430
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