What does Kala mean?

Kâla: eternal Time, cosmic time. The impersonal visible aspect of K r i s h n a. That what moves the material energy. Consecution of moments in relation to the sun, the moon and the stars, known by the rotation of the earth (see also t r i - k â l i k a, S' i s' u m â r a and y u g a).

Kala Bhairava is Shiva in his terrible or gruesome aspect as Destroyer of the Universe, a personification of the destructive principle as Kali.

Kala - cycle of time

Kala - [accented differently in Sanskrit] literally "power" or ability

Kali yuga - the era of time in which we are now living ...

Kala Time (in its essentiality); Spirit of the Time, Zeitgeist.

kalasa jar.

Kalasamhara [Siva as the destroyer of Time or Death] ..

Sa tu dirgha-kala-nairantarya-satkarasevito drdha-bhumih

- Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras I.14

<<Moreover, that practice has a firm ground when attended to for a long time, without interruption, and with devotion to truth.

Then there is kala, which is the different manifestations of matter, energy, the elements and other unknown elements beyond the range of human conception and awareness.

n Hawaii, the sacred light of the sun, not the light we see but the esoteric radiation from the spirit of the sun, is called Kala Kea. Radiating outward from the sun, beams of Kala Kea are the petals of the true flower of the sun.

Ida and Pingala indicate Kala (time) and Sushumna swallows time. The Yogi knows the time of his death; takes his Prana into Sushumna; keeps it in Brahmarandra, and defies time (Kala"death).>>

Kala (time)

Asana (posture)

Mula-bandha (root lock)

Deha-samya (body equilibrium)

Drik-sthiti (steadiness of vision)

Pranayama / Prana-samyamana / Prana-samrodha (breath control)

Pratyahara (sense of withdrawal)

It is reminded by Pattabhi Jois that these benefits come with consistent practice over a long period of time! In yoga terms this would be called durga kala (very long time) and nairantarya (without break).

Tri-kâlika: the threefold of time the division usually refers to past, present and future of time, but can also be considered in the sense of the other five threefold divisions of time to

1) the sun, the moon and the stars,

2) the three periods of four months or the seasons of summer, winter and autumn/spring,

3) to the natural, cultural and psychological of time, to

4) the creative, destructive and maintaining quality of time and

5) to the cyclic, the linear and the oneness of time.

S'is'umâra-cakra: ('dolphin-disc'): the celestial sky that is called V â s u d e v a because one can directly perceive K r i s h n a that way in the form of cosmic, galactic time or the milky way in the form of a dolphin.

- Also called the lotus of creation, the universe unfolded, from which B r a h m â was born, sprouting from the navel of V i s h n u.

- Name for the impersonal aspect of time of K r i s h n a.

Yuga: era varying from 1-4 x 1200 x 360 solar years in which one 'year of the gods' is 360 earthly years.

Eras in the existence of the universe, that cycle over and over in rounds of four in which religion and the good qualities of men gradually decline.

References:

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http://www.yogadancer.com/Pattra/EkaPadaSirsasana.shtml

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