The Relationship Between Mother Kali and Lord Shiva.
Lord Shiva's duty is very dangerous because he has to employ the energy of Mother Kali (or Goddess Durga). In another popular pic­ture the Mother Kali is sometimes seen standing on the prostrate body of Lord Shiva, which indicates that sometimes Lord Shiva has to fall down flat in order to stop Mother Kali after killing the asuras. Since Lord Shiva controls the powerful material energy (god­dess Durga), worshipers of Lord Shiva attain very opulent posi­tions within this material world. Under Lord Shiva's direction, a worshiper of Lord Shiva gets all kinds of material facilities. In contrast, a Vaishnava, or a worshiper of Lord Vishnu may not become materially opulent, but receives divine intelligence from the Lord Himself to make progress on the path back home, back to Godhead. Since a devotee has nothing to do with any kind of material possession, he does not come under the control of Mother Kali, or the goddess Durga.

Lord Shiva is also in charge of the tamo-guna, or the mode of ignorance in this material world. His potency, the goddess Durga, is described as keeping all living entities in the darkness of igno­rance (yaa devi sarva bhuteshu nidra-rupam samsthita).

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