Mahavidhyas (2 of 10), by Deepak Saagar
DasaMahavidhya 2 - Maha Tara, is often said to be a savior, a goddess who helps us across difficult situations and offers the knowledge of Moksha. She is the unmanifest sound that is spread all over and that which supports the universe. Tara is often meditated upon for the purification of the mind for she is the purifying force of all the vital breaths. In fact, the sound of breath is her original, spontaneous and un-uttered mantra (So’ham). She is also the knowledge that arises by differentiating the meanings through sounds, and hence she is the patron goddess of all Mantra seekers and makers. Like Kali, she too is blue in color. She has tangled brown hair, has serpents as her ornaments with her four hands carrying a Kapala (a bowl made from a skull), a blue lotus, a head chopper and a pair of scissors. She wears a garland of severed human heads and is often shown straddling upon a corpse. Tara is much adored in the Buddhist traditions as well.
Deepak Saagar is a graduate student at the University of Cincinnati.
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