Lord Shiva From North And Kali From South -- What is The Connection...??

The South is the direction of black and North is the direction is of white. The South is the direction of Kali. The color of Kali is black. Black color and instability are associated with the direction South. The north is the direction of lord Shiva. The color of lord Shiva is white. He is Karpur Gauram (as white as camphor). He looks dark because his body is smeared with ash. White color and stability is associated with the direction North.

Yama, the god of death, comes from the south is black, Kama, the god of desire, is associated with the south is dark (deep green), the ocean appears dark is found in the south direction, the crematorium is situated in the south direction of the village is associated with black (mourning and sadness).

Lord Shiva dwells on the mount Kailash clad with white snow. The Rivers emerge from the mountains in the North clad with snow and flow to the south and merge in the ocean in the south are white in color.

Black color is the color of both mystery and ignorance. The people who are associated with black either we cannot understand them or they cannot understand anything. Lord Krishna is associated with the black color, he is very mysterious, almost impossible to understand him. Kali, Yama, Kama, crematorium (death) and ocean (depth) all are mysterious, nobody has ever understood them.

We as human being are strongly associated with them (black), however, we are not mysterious like them, but ignorant.

Our every birth is an opportunity to nullify our accumulated Karma and get the liberation from the interminable cycle of birth and death. But due to our ignorance (black), we fall into the trap of Kama (desire). To fulfill our desires we involve ourselves in various kinds of activities, which produces Karma. Where there is Karma, Yama needs to appear to reward or retribute us according to our Karma.

According to our Karma, we get our birth. And where there is birth, there would be definitely death (Yama) and crematorium (Kali (ShamshanNivasini) – she dwells there). Nothing stable in the south. There is birth, life and death, violence and turbulence  – and again birth, life and death, violence and turbulence. This continuum goes on.

No peace and stability in the South. Only turbulence, violence and change. Where there is a desire (Kama), there would be turbulence (Ocean – waves of thoughts to fulfill our desires). Where there is turbulence, there would be violence (Kali - who kills people who desire to dominate nature). Where there is violence, there would be death (Yama). Where there is death, there would be a crematorium.

Due to our ignorance (black), Mysterious and bloodthirsty Kali (Black) standing in the crematorium stretching and showing her tongue to mock our ignorance.

White is the color of enlightenment. Kama and Yama, both are very powerful and dark in color. It is very difficult to come out of the clutches of Kama and Yama. Howsoever, both were killed by Lord Shiva (white). Later, both were resurrected, why they were resurrected, that is a different story.  

Kali was violent before coming into the contact of lord Shiva. When she came into the contact of Lord Shiva, she became Gauri (Fair) and travelled to the north, the direction of peace, stability and light.

There is a realm of darkness, because there is no light. When the light appears, the darkness vanishes. The darkness (Kali, Yama and Kama) can be conquered by light (Shiva).

As long as we live in ignorance, there would be a strong influence of Kama and Yama, and Kali standing in the crematorium stretching her tongue will keep mocking us as our all efforts are making a preparation to reach the crematorium only, nowhere else.

Darkness is the ignorance and the light is the knowledge. The darkness of ignorance can be conquered with the light of knowledge only.

When we lit the light of knowledge, the darkness of ignorance dispels, we come out of the clutches of influence of Kama and Yama and travel to the north, the direction of lord Shiva, where bloodthirsty Kali has become benevolent Gauri. There is peace, happiness, harmony and stability only.

Black color is the color of attraction and bondage and white color is the color of peace and liberation. Black color absorbs the other colors in it and white color reflects other colors. That is why, black color is an analogy of attachment and white color is an analogy of detachment and liberation.

South direction is the direction of the body and north is the direction of soul. The body goes to the south in crematorium and pious soul goes to the North where further birth and death ceases.

But the spirit who is too much attached to the body keep hovering in the south and again trap in the continuous cycle of birth and death.

The spirit who understands the impermanence of the body and the world does not attach to the body rather work on their soul and become immortal – Mrutya ma Amrutgamya ( from death (Yama) to immortality  (Shiva)) – from the south to the north – from the direction of  Kama (Desire hence turbulence), Kali (Violence) Yama  (Death), Crematorium (end of body - mortal) and Ocean (instability) to the direction of lord Shiva (Soul, which is immortal, and enlightenment), peace, happiness and stability(mountain).