a day agoThe sadhaka (practitioner) is traditionally enjoined to offer her food while they are themselves in a state of uchhista often with remnants of food still in their mouth or hands, or offering food that has been partially partaken. This breaks all conventional notions of ritual purity and pollution (shuddhi and ashuddhi). It signifies that for this fierce, transgressive form of the Goddess, all dualities of pure and impure dissolve.
a day agoIn traditional lore and rigorous oral/textual lineages of this specific sadhana, failing to follow the precise protocol or failing to offer the appropriate uchhista bhog as mandated by the ritual manual is believed to bring immediate displeasure or wrath (krodha/dosha) from the deity, because the entire premise of her worship is the total acceptance of what society rejects.
