Chinnamasta

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Chinnamasta - The Great Yogini

To be without a head is a yogic metaphor for going beyond body consciousness or attachment to the thought-composed mind. The spiritual path is aimed at opening the lid of the mind so that we can have access to the universal consciousness beyond thought.

Chinnamasta, whose image is a severed head, is the Goddess who causes us to cut off our own heads or to dissolve our minds into pure awareness. She has cut off her own head and, holding it in her right hand, with it drinks the blood flowing from her own severed neck. Yet her face is not frightening but happy, even blissful. What she presents is the joy of transcending the body, not the pain of losing it. She is also the most energetic form of the Goddess and shows the power of transformation in action.

Yet we may ask, why should we portray this state in so graphic an image, when it can be conveyed more calmly via conceptual description? The image has a stronger and more dramatic impact on our psyche and conveys the process as fact rather than as theory. The mind can take in any theory and thereby avoid the reality. The image, however, cannot be so easily subverted. It communicates to the core of our being.

-“Tantric Yoga and the Goddesses of Wisdom” By Dr. David Frawley