INSPIRATION FOR THE CAKE:
Diwali is a festival of lights. It’s the celebration of this inner light over spiritual darkness, knowledge over ignorance, right over wrong, good over evil.
When I was looking for an inspiration for my Diwali themed cake I stumbled upon this picture of Maa kaali and was awestruck with the beauty of it.
I decided to take “Maa Kaali” as an inspiration for my Diwali cake because Kali is one of the many forms of Shakti. Maha Kaali is the fiercest of all goddesses of Hinduism. Goddess Kali is sometimes referred as the goddess of death. But actually Kali brings the death of the ego. Even in the scriptures, she has killed demons but not anyone else.
Maha Kaali is the most compassionate of all the forms of goddesses as she provides salvation or liberation to her children. Kali is equivalent to Shiva because both of them are the destroyers of evil fake and unreal.
It is considered that with the glimpse of Maa Kali, ego trembles with terror seeing its own eventual demise in her.
It suggests that physical body is false and spirit is the only reality. Her black or sometimes dark blue skin represents the womb of the unmanifest from which all of creation is born and into which all of creation will ultimately return. Therefore, the concepts of color, light, dark, good or bad do not apply to her as she is the pure, un-manifested energy, the Adishakti.