CHINNAMASTA MAHAVIDYA

       CHINNAMASTA MAHAVIDYA Of all the Mahavidyas, She is the one who is reputed to be very dangerous to worship, there are only a few temples devoted to Her notably in Himachal.. Chintpurni, in Bihar and in Varanasi. Chinnamasta Devi is depicted as a 16 year old girl with a fully awakened Kundalini Chinnamasta Devi is a form of Shakti who is depicted as ferocious wrathful. Chinnamasta means,  'severed head' . The Hindu Divine Mother is commonly identified with her fearsome iconography. Chinnamasta is one of the most outrageous forms of divinity in Hinduism. The self-decapitating Goddess is one of the important and worshipped Shaktipat Goddesses. Chinnamasta symbolises both life-giver and life-taker. One of the goddesses of Mahavidyas, Chinnamasta is considered both as a symbol of self-control on sexual desire as well as an embodiment of sexual energy, depending upon interpretation. Chinnamasta is mostly depicted nude and with dishevelled hair...