Fw: [ShivaYoga] Re: The divine feminine in islam!

I LIKE THE USER ID " PEN KATALI"

a girl who dances.. in katak

--- In shivyoga@yahoogroups.com, "adi_shakthi16" <adi_shakthi16@...>
wrote:
>
> From: PenKatali
> Date: Sat Nov 24, 2001 7:05 pm
> Subject: Re: Is my mother kali black?
>
> 'Just as all colors disappear in black,so all names and forms
> disappear in her'(Mahanirvana Tantra).
>
> The name of Kali, meaning 'black', is of Dravidian origin, borrowed
> into Sanskrit.
>
> Black in Tamil is karu. At a very early period, proto-Sanskrit
> shifted the sound of r to l and vice versa. So the name of Kali must
> be very ancient.
>
> The metaphysical significance of Her blackness, as you explained
> so well, Adi Shakti, is interesting because Sufis use the very same
> description for the Divine Feminine.
>
> Their mystical love poems invoke Allah as "Layla" from the word
> for 'night' (layl), meaning a Woman whose hair is black as night.
The
> explanation my shaykh gave me of Her blackness is the same as Kali
> Ma's blackness: Night represents the Unmanifest.
>
> In the Arabian desert, the night is a reality without boundaries:
> forms are dissolved, no sand dunes or camels or anything else
> visible, all is formless, nothing but darkness. This is direct
> symbolism of the unmanifested aspect of the Divine Nature, Allah as
> Unmanifest.
>
> Blackness absorbs all light, as it is above manifestation, so it
> symbolizes the Beyond-Being. In the poem, Layla was named for the
> blackness of her hair and the beauty of the night. By extension, it
> in fact refers to the beauty of the Divine Reality beyond this
world,
> beyond the act of creation, and therefore the supreme
> goal that the Sufi seeks to reach."<
>
> Allah as the Beloved in Sufi literature, the ma`shûq, is always
> depicted with female iconography. This is one reason I find that
> Sufism is congruent with Devi worship, and why I as a Muslim am so
> irresistibly drawn to Her devotion.
>
> The Islamic attestation of faith is called "Kali-Ma." :-) well, my
> friend PK was a white jew who became a muslim ! he was john! but in
> recent years he decided to throw his male privilege away and became
a
> woman named johanna! first comes conversion then comes
transformation!
> so , when you are a true muslim, you do become a woman because
> Compassion is another name for woman!
>
>
>
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sadhana_shakti/message/955?
o=0&var=1&l=1>
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