Why is Kālī Crazy?

The image of Mā Kālī alone is unfathomably powerful in its symbolic richness! Having discussed Mā's iconography at some length in this lecture series. we now go a little deeper by investigating her bhāva, her mood which emphasizes three things, usually: intoxication, madness and arousal. Last week, we discussed Mā’s divine drunkenness (you can watch that lecture here) we now turn to the second of these three motifs: Her divine madness! We make three points about Her madness: first wit...