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Any acharyas here, please elaborate the Importance of Kleem bija mantra in Kali Kula and Vaishnava Sect.
There are many Gopala mantras with "Kleem" beeja involved.
At the sametime, Bhadrakali moolamantra, ShmashanaKaali,Chamunda, BalaParameswari etc has also having this beeja mantra
Does this pointing to, Krishna and Kali are tightly linked with each other? or those Devataas whose beeja mantra has "Kleem" has a connection with Krishna?
In the Tantrik scriptures and terminologies, Klim is widely known as the "kAma vija", which is associated primarily with Lord Krishna. On the other hand, Krim, known as the "sharmada vija", is associated exclusively with Goddess KAli. Krim is known as the KAli Vija and Klim the KAma Vija or Krishna Vija.
There is a Tantra, called the VaradA Tantram, which gives the expository meanings of the various Vijas (like aim, hrim, haum, shrim, dum, gam etc., etc.) in the Patala 6 of the text, by breaking down the letters, mAtrAs found in a particular Vija.
The verses I quote below are given in the book "Anhika Krityam - by Shyamacharana Sharma AKA Shyamacharana Kaviratnavaridhi", 1st bhAga, 1st khanda (on p.79):
Klim (KAma)--- Ka kAmdeva uddishtohapyathava krishna uchyate |
La Indra ee tushti-vAchi sukha-dukkah-pradancha ||ka --- kAmadeva or krishna; la --- Indra; symbolic here of opulence or Aisharya; ee --- Tushti or appeasement or pleasure; anuswara --- giver of happiness and destroyer of miseries.
Over all meaning --- Let the opulent kAmadeva or Krishna provide me with pleasures and happiness and let him remove my miseries.
Krim (Sharmada) ---
ka kAli brahma ra proktam mahA-mayArthakashcha eeh |
viswa-mAtArthako nado vindur-dukkha-aharArthakah ||ka --- kAli; ra --- brahma (supreme reality); ee --- mahAmAyA (the great enchantress); nAdA --- viswa-mAtA (world mother); bindu --- dukkha harana (removal of miseries);
Overall meaning --- Let, the mahAmAyA, Brahma-swarupa, Jagajjanani, Goddess KAli remove all my miseries.
Aspirants, who are initiated into KAli mantra, sip water during Achamana, using the mantra Krim. So, Krim is obviously important in KAli-Kula. Klim, on the other hand, is a generally important Vija, that is found in mantras of various deities, but is primarily associated with Krishna.
