Kalki
Kalki is the tenth and future avatara, the rider on the white horse Devadatta, born in the village Shambhala to Vishnuyasha and Sumati, who comes at the end of the Kali Yuga with a blazing sword to end the age of darkness and restore dharma.
Kalki is a future figure and the tradition gives no date: the Vishnu Purana (Book 4) and the Bhagavata Purana (Canto 12) describe his coming at the end of the Kali Yuga, and the Kalki Purana expands it, but the yuga's length is cosmological rather than calendrical. Claims that a particular living person is Kalki are made outside the tradition's own account. The planetary, elemental, zodiacal and tarot values are a modern Western overlay.
Correspondences
- Planetary Correspondence
- Pluto
- Zodiac Affinity
- SagittariusAriesAquarius
Offerings
- Offerings
- White flowersRiceGheeWaterSweets
Sacred timing
- Sacred Timing
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- Kalki AvataraKalkinThe Rider of the White Horse
- Gender Expression
- Masculine
- Titles
- The Tenth AvataraThe Rider of the White HorseThe Future OneEnder of the Kali Yuga
- Symbols
- White horseFlaming swordCometShambhala
Practice
- Invocation Approach
- ToneSolemn expectantAddressKalkiKalkinLord of the White HorseRelationshipThe one who has not come yet and is the reason to keep the lawWarningNo one knows the day and anyone who names one is selling somethingResonanceThose keeping dharma in a late age
- Modern Practice
Kalki has no wide living cult to join: he is honoured in the Dashavatara sequence and at the shrines that carry his name, and the practice is the keeping of dharma while the age runs out. Claims that a living person is Kalki are made outside the tradition and should be treated as such.
Nature and meaning
- Domain
- The end of the ageDharma restoredJudgementThe white horseThe futureThe swordTime
- Mythology Summary
Kalki is the tenth and future avatara, the rider on the white horse Devadatta, born in the village Shambhala to Vishnuyasha and Sumati, who comes at the end of the Kali Yuga with a blazing sword to end the age of darkness and restore dharma. The Vishnu Purana (Book 4) and the Bhagavata Purana (Canto 12) describe his coming, and the Kalki Purana expands it into a full narrative. He has no great independent cult - the Kalki temple in Jaipur is an eighteenth-century foundation - and the tradition gives no date.
Details
- Correspondences
- ColorsWhiteSilverRedScentsSandalwood whiteCamphorFrankincenseMetalsSteelSilverAnimalsHorseEagle
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