Goddess Kali's blessings always with India: Modi at ramakrishna event

Goddess Kali's unlimited blessings are always with India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday while lauding the country's saints for always standing for 'Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat' (One India, great India).

The establishment of Ramakrishna Mission is also associated with this idea, he said in a video message on the birth centenary celebrations of Swami Atmasthananda, a former head of the organisation.

Invoking Goddess Kali, Modi said Ramakrishna Paramhansa was one saint who had a clear vision of her and his disciple Swami Vivekananda also felt the spiritual vision about the goddess. "Maa Kali's unlimited blessings are always with India," he said.


His comments came amid a row over the depiction of the goddess in a poster by a Canadian film-maker of Indian origin, which has drawn angry reaction from BJP leaders and Hindu groups. Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra's remarks that she had every right to imagine Goddess Kali as a "meat-eating and alcohol-accepting" deity has added to the row.