Monday 2 November · Day 1 on your path
Kâlî (black), Karâlî (terrific), Manogavâ (swift as thought), Sulohitâ (very…
A verse for today, chosen from the scholar-translated texts. Ask anything to begin your path.
Today by the texts
काली कराली च मनोजवा च सुलोहिता या च सुधूम्रवर्णा । स्फुलिङ्गिनी विश्वरुची च देवी लेलायमाना इति सप्त जिह्वाः
Kâlî (black), Karâlî (terrific), Manogavâ (swift as thought), Sulohitâ (very red), Sudhûmravarnâ (purple), Sphulinginî (sparkling), and the brilliant Visvarûtpî (having all forms), all these playing about are called the seven tongues (of fire).
— tr. F. Max Müller (SBE, 1879/1884) (public domain)
Today this verse asks only that you look closely at a fire and notice it is not one thing but many — black, terrible, swift, red, smoky, sparking, all-formed — each flame named and attended to rather than blurred into "fire" [MuUp 1.2.4]. Whatever is burning in your life right now, see if you can give its tongues their separate names.
Five minutes with one line.
Repeat kālī karālī ca manojavā ca slowly. Let the meaning arrive on its own, without pressing for it.