{"id":475,"date":"2021-07-14T07:36:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T07:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balalayam.com\/dasamahavidya\/?page_id=475"},"modified":"2022-07-08T06:34:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T06:34:28","slug":"chhinnamasta","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/balalayam.com\/dasamahavidya\/chhinnamasta\/","title":{"rendered":"Chhinnamasta"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"475\" class=\"elementor elementor-475\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6d4cf99 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6d4cf99\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-20dfb20\" data-id=\"20dfb20\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3644c8f elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"3644c8f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"693\" src=\"https:\/\/balalayam.com\/dasamahavidya\/myweb\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Chinna-Mastha-768x693.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-675\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balalayam.com\/dasamahavidya\/myweb\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Chinna-Mastha-768x693.jpg 768w, https:\/\/balalayam.com\/dasamahavidya\/myweb\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Chinna-Mastha-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/balalayam.com\/dasamahavidya\/myweb\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Chinna-Mastha-1024x924.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/balalayam.com\/dasamahavidya\/myweb\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Chinna-Mastha-1536x1386.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/balalayam.com\/dasamahavidya\/myweb\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Chinna-Mastha-2048x1848.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-532cc68\" data-id=\"532cc68\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ad1dc19 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ad1dc19\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">7. Chinnamasta<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c7b3007 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c7b3007\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The self-decapitated Goddess. She chopped her own head off in order to satisfy Jaya and Vijaya (metaphors of Rajas and Tamas \u2013 part of the trigunas). Chinnamasta has a red complexion, embodied with a frightful appearance. She has disheveled hair.\u00a0 Since she cut her own head, she is known as Chinnamasta. Chinnamasta shines like a lightning bolt from the Sun. She demonstrates the rare courage needed to make the highest conceivable sacrifice. The severed head, iconographically, symbolizes liberation. Each person\u2019s individual identity is a state of conditioning or limitation, dependent on qualities. By severing the head, the Mother reveals herself in her true being, which is unconditioned, infinite, and boundlessly free. Because she is infinite, she is also autonomous. Dakini, on the left, is black; Varnini, on the right, is red. Chinnamasta, in the middle, is white. Black, red, and white represent the three gunas, or basic universal energies. Sattva, symbolized by Chinnamasta\u2019s whiteness, is the highest of the gunas, of course, but all three belong to prakriti, the principle of materiality on which all nature rests. Nothing exists apart from the Mother, whose power of diversification takes form as the grand display of the universe. The blood spurting from Chinnamasta\u2019s neck represents the life force (prana) or cosmic energy that animates the universe and sustains all life. The first stream flows into Chinnamasta\u2019s own mouth. She is self-existent and dependent on no other. 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