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    Bhairavi is a fierce and terrifying aspect of the Goddess, virtually indistinguishable from Kali. She embodies the principle of destruction in the world. Destruction, through processes like aging, weakness, and death, allows for continued creation through transformed energy. Bhairavi is associated with both destructive forces in the world like anger and self-destructive habits, as well as sexual desire and fulfillment. She is seen as an ever-present goddess who manifests in all destructive aspects of life and the world.

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    Bhairavi is a fierce and terrifying aspect of the Goddess, virtually indistinguishable from Kali. She embodies the principle of destruction in the world. Destruction, through processes like aging, weakness, and death, allows for continued creation through transformed energy. Bhairavi is associated with both destructive forces in the world like anger and self-destructive habits, as well as sexual desire and fulfillment. She is seen as an ever-present goddess who manifests in all destructive aspects of life and the world.

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    Bhairavi is a fierce and terrifying aspect of the Goddess, virtually indistinguishable from Kali. She embodies the principle of destruction in the world. Destruction, through processes like aging, weakness, and death, allows for continued creation through transformed energy. Bhairavi is associated with both destructive forces in the world like anger and self-destructive habits, as well as sexual desire and fulfillment. She is seen as an ever-present goddess who manifests in all destructive aspects of life and the world.

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    The fifth form of Mahavidya is Sri Bhairavi Amman.

    Bhairavi is a fierce and


    terrifying aspect of the Goddess virtually indistinguishable from Kali, except for
    her particular identification as the consort of the Wrathful Shiva. She is
    considered the female form of Lord Shiva known as Bhairava. Creation and
    Destruction are two essential aspects of the universe, which is continually
    subject to their alternating rhythms. The two are equally dominant in the world
    and indeed depend upon each other in symbiotic fashion. Bhairavi embodies the
    principle of destruction. She arises or becomes present when the body declines
    and decays, which is a natural,
    inevitable, and irresistible force. Bhairavi is also evident in self- destructive
    habits, such as eating tamsic food (food having a quality associated with
    ignorance and lust) and drinking liquor, which wear down the body and mind.
    She is present; it is said, in the loss of semen, which weakens males. Anger,
    jealousy, and other selfish emotions and actions strengthen Bhairavi"s
    presence in the world. Righteous behaviour, conversely, makes her weaker. In
    short, she is an ever-present goddess who manifests herself in, and embodies,
    the destructive aspects of the world. Destruction, however, is not always
    negative, creation cannot continue without it. This is most clear in the process
    of nourishment and metabolism, in which life feeds on death; creation proceeds
    by means of transformed energy given up in destruction.

    Bhairavi is also identified with Kalaratri, a name often associated with Kali that
    means "black night (of destruction)" and refers to a particularly destructive
    aspect of Kali. She is also identified with Mahapralaya, the great dissolution at
    the end of a cosmic cycle, during which all things, having been consumed with
    fire, are dissolved in the formless waters of procreation. She is the force that
    tends toward dissolution. This force, furthermore, which is actually Bhairavi
    herself, is present in each person as one gradually ages, weakens and finally
    dies. Destruction is apparent everywhere, and therefore Bhairavi is present
    everywhere.

    One of her dhyana mantras, that of Sampatprada-bhairavi, says that she is
    intoxicated with her youth, and most descriptions of her, despite her association
    with destruction, say that she is attractive, young, and shapely. Bhairavi"s
    association with sexual desire and fulfilment is mentioned often in her
    thousand-name hymns. In the Shakta-pramoda, for example, she is called She
    Who Is Fond of Semen and Menstrual Blood and She Who Is Worshiped by
    Those Who Worship with Semen. In her thousand-name hymn in the
    Vishvasara-tantra, she is called Lovely One, She Whose Form Is Semen, Who
    Produces Semen, Who Gives Love, Who Enjoys Sexual Intercourse, Who Is
    Dear To Kama, and Who Dwells in the Yoni. She is shown here seated on a
    lotus, with four arms, two of them making the gestures of granting boons and
    removing fear respectively. The other two hands hold a goad and noose.
    Bhairavi has facets and epithets that assert her cosmic importance, if not
    supremacy. A commentary on the Parashurama-kalpasutra says that the name
    Bhairavi is derived from the words bharana (to create), ramana (to protect), and
    vamana (to emit or disgorge). The commentator, that is, seeks to discern the
    inner meaning of Bhairavi"s name by identifying her with the cosmic functions
    of creation, maintenance, and destruction.

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