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The Dasha Mahavidyas –

  • Jun 16
  • 3 min read

The Dasha Mahavidyas – The Ten Faces of Awakening


An Invitation to Burn Through Illusion and Meet the Wild Truth Within


There’s a fire that lives inside every Human.

Not the gentle kind that flickers politely.

But the kind that devours falsehood and demands authenticity—

The kind that cannot be tamed, only met.


This fire has ten faces. Ten voices. Ten ways She calls us back to ourselves.

They are known as the Dasha Mahavidyas—the Ten Great Wisdom Goddesses of the Tantric tradition.


This isn’t a fairy tale. This isn’t for the faint-hearted.

This is a path of initiation—a raw, often uncomfortable, always liberating unraveling of who you think you are.


🔥 What Are the Dasha Mahavidyas?


In the ancient Tantric texts, the Mahavidyas are the ten expressions of Ma Kali in her multifaceted wisdom forms.

Each one is an aspect of Divine Consciousness—a mirror to your soul, your shadows, your power, your rage, your tenderness, your voice, your silence.


These are not goddesses you worship on a pedestal.

These are forces you embody.

They come to you when you’re ready to dismantle illusion,

to walk away from surface-level spirituality,

and dive into the chaos of real transformation.


The Ten Faces of Her (And Ourselves)


  1. Kali – The Slayer of Ego. Time. Death. The great liberator who slices through your bullshit. You’ll meet her when you’ve had enough of pretending


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  1. Tara – The Compassionate Guide. She walks you through the wreckage and reminds you how to breathe when you feel like drowning.

  2. Tripura Sundari – Beauty beyond duality. She is sacred sensuality, balance, and the radiance of a woman fully in love with her own essence.

  3. Bhuvaneshwari – The Cosmic Womb. Vast. Spacious. She holds everything. She teaches you how to soften and expand.

  4. Bhairavi – The Fierce One. She is the fire of discipline, inner truth, and sacred rage. The destroyer of excuses.

  5. Chinnamasta – The Headless Goddess. She invites you to surrender the mind and open to the wisdom that lives in the body, the breath, the pulse of life

  6. Dhumavati – The Void. The smoke. The crone. The presence of lack that teaches you the fullness of nothingness. She is not “pretty.” She is freedom.

  7. Bagalamukhi – The Paralyzer. She stops the noise. Silences the mind. And shows you the power in stillness and command.

  8. Matangi – The Outcast Queen. She is the sacred rebel, the one who doesn’t fit and doesn’t care to. She gives you your voice back.

  9. Kamala – The Lotus of Prosperity. She reminds you that the sacred is also in wealth, abundance, and embodiment. This is divine groundedness.


Why Work with the Mahavidyas?


Because this path is not about perfection. It’s about wholeness.

It’s about no longer running from your chaos, your rage, your sexuality, your power, or your grief.

Each Mahavidya is a portal—a living archetype that initiates you into a deeper layer of your own soul.


They don’t demand you become anything.

They ask you to strip it all away

Until what’s left is undeniably real.


This Path Is Not Linear.


You don’t meet them one by one like stepping stones.

They arrive as needed.

When your life collapses. When your heart breaks open. When your voice shakes with truth.

They will come.


And if you let them—

They will lead you home.


If this speaks to something deep in your bones, stay close.

I’ll be sharing more on each of these sacred forms, and how to embody their teachings in everyday life—through kriya, ritual, sound, and fierce self-honesty.


We don’t need more surface-level spirituality.

We need women willing to walk into the fire

And rise—utterly unchained.


Welcome to the path of the Mahavidyas.

It’s not safe

It’s holy .

 
 
 

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