About the Book: Kali: The Feminine Force
Kali, according to Indian legend, sprang forth from the brow of the Great
Goddess Durga during a battle to annihilate demonic male power. With her lolling
tongue and necklace of severed heads, Kali has often been represented simply as
death-dealing, cruel and horrific. But as Ajit Mookerjee shows, the same goddess
is creator and nurturer, feminine energy, the essence of mother-lover. As divine
mother, lotus goddess, she brings worlds to birth, sustains them and absorbs
them, in a never-ending cycle of her own opening and closing. In India, worship
of the goddess in her multiple forms, and the vision