Kali, the Dark Goddess is depicted with perhaps the fiercest features amongst all the world's deities. But the love between this mother goddess and her human children is a unique relationship. Kali is one such deity with whom devotees have a very loving and intimate bond, in spite of her fearful appearance. In this relationship, the worshipper becomes a child and Kali assumes the form of the ever-caring mother. Her three eyes represent past, present, and future, — the three modes of time — an attribute that lies in the very name. 'Kala' in Sanskrit means time.

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