12 aspects of Kali of Light - Prabhakali are:
Kali of Creation (sṛṣṭikālī).
Kali of Persistence (sthitikālī).
Kali of Destruction (saṃhārakālī).
Kali of Passion (raktakālī).
Good Kali (sukālī).
Kali of Control (yamakālī).
Kali of Death (mṛtyukālī).
Auspicious Kali (bhadrakālī ).
Kali of the Supreme Sun (paramārkakālī).
Kali of the great Sun (mahamārtāṇḍakālī).
Terrible Kali (kālāgnirudrakālī).
Great Kali (mahākālī).
1) Srsti Kali: She has the Will to create and has an idea as to what they are going
to be. She is known as Srsti Kali.
This is the nascent idea of creation by Kali of the object. In this stage Kali is
gathering knowledge, the stage of PramAna ( = Knowledge and means of
Knowledge).
2) Rakta Kali: She is concerned with Sthiti or maintenance of the visible world by
the five senses. Here Kali wants to preserve and protect the object she created
through the five senses.
3) SthitinAsa Kali: She withdraws the objective world into Her. Her external form
comes to an end and comes to rest in Her. In this aspect of Kali, she tells Herself, 'I
have known the object.' 'Been there, done that.' (The object is the world of beings
and matter.)
4) Yama Kali: She manifests herself beyond extrovert or introvert aspect and
represents the AnAkhyA, indefinable power in relation to objective experience. She
goes beyond subject (KAli) and object paradigm to a realm, where the consuming
energies of 12 Kalis abide.
5) SamhAra Kali: When Parasamvid, Her Highest Divine Consciousness withdraws
into Her all external objects and makes them identical with herself, the aspect of
SamhAra Kali emerges. In this aspect of SamhAra Kali, she tells Herself, 'the
objects are non-different from me.' The subject and object are one and non-
different. Read the lyrics, 'I Am The World' below.
6) Mrtyukali: In this aspect, Mrtyukali engulfs and swallows SamhAra Kali, and
internalizes the residual objects and traces of the objective world. This is Sthiti
( maintenance) in the stage of PramAna( means of knowledge and Knowledge).
7) Bhadrakali: The objects dissolve in Bhadrakali's essential nature. This is
SamhAra in the stage of PramAna. Her other name is Rudrakali.
8)MArtanda Kali: MArtanda is sun or god of Sun. The cluster of 12 Indriyas or
organs is called sun because they illuminate the objects like the sun. The 12
Senses are five sense organs, five motor organs and Manas and Buddhi. She
dissolves the 12 senses in Ego or Ahamkara. She is AnAkhyA, indefinable power
in relation to PramAna, the means of Knowledge. She goes beyond the PramAna
paradigm, where the consuming 12 Saktis abide. The 12 senses have lost their
name and individuality upon dissolution in Ego. What she created, she is absorbing
: the body, the senses etc. Senses and body are gone.
The four stages 5 to 8 are the four powers of Kali in relation to PramAna ( means
of knowledge). All that Kali (Subject) does is knowledge in relation with the world,
the beings....
The four stages of Kali from 9 to 12 represent Kal's four powers in relation to
ParamAta ( the limited subject with only Anava Mala).
9) ParamArkakAli: She is the creative power in relation to the limited subject. She
merges Ahamkara in her Creative Power. The limitations of object and senses are
annihilated.
This limited subject is not the one with three Malas but with only Anava Mala. He is
the Pasu with Anava Mala, 2 notches above the Pasu with 3 Malas. Primer in
Saiva Siddhanta
10) KAlAgnirudrasakti: When Parasamvid, the Highest Divine Consciousness,
merges the individual soul with the Universal Self, she is called KAlAgnirudrasakti.
Kali represents the power of Sthiti ( Maintenance) in relation to PramAta ( = the
limited subject) to rest in Her Universal Self. The Subject dissolves in the
Consciousness. The experience of KAlAgnirudrasakti at this level is, 'I am all this.'
Her other name is MahakAli, because She has in Her everything inside Her
including Time.
11) MahAkAlakAli: She dissolves the individual 'I' in the universal Perfect 'I' which
is free from all objects. This is the ultimate absorption or SamhAra in relation to
limited subject.
12) MahABharaiva-Ghora-CandakAli: This state of Kali is AnAkhyA in relation to
the limited subject. This is beyond all characterization in words. This is Akula stage
: Siva). Here PramAtA, PramAna and Prameya (subject, means of knowledge and
object) are all dissolved in I-Consciousness.
This is ParA ( Supreme or highest) because all previous states are her
manifestation ante Akula state is Siva state. The other name for MahABharaiva-
Ghora-CandakAli is MahABhairavaGhora CandaKali, where in Canda is the realm
of Prameya (=Subject), Ghora is Prameya ( = Knowledge and means of
knowledge), and MahaBhairav is PramAtA ( = Subject).
