How to Transition from Smashana Kali to Adya Kali?

How to Transition from Smashana Kali to Adya Kali?

Contrary to many of the iconographies you see regarding Maa Smashana Kali, her true iconography is with two upper limbs, one holding the Khadga with which she is ready to take the next Brahma's head & the other hand holding Brahma's head which she had just cut off. This is the ultimate, most gross form of Adya Kali without any dissolution of her Ugra tattva. No hands that holds a mudra to give a specific blessing.

Maa Adya's iconography holds no blessing too; but she possess two extra things in the other two limbs that she's got. A Trishul and the Khappar.

Maa holding the Trishul reprsents her mastery over anything she creates, preserves and destroys and that Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra are within her.

Maa holds the Khappar bowl to ensure that the Praana of Brahma, who is the realized Sadhaka of Devi, does not go into the Karmic kalachakra but back into her.

Or in simpler words, Trishul means the mastery over the world and the Khappar is the mastery over life.

If Smashana Kali is the first name of Adya Kali and the ultimate manifestation of her cosmic shakti without any dissolution, then where have the Trishul and Khappar gone?

In the Sadhana of Smashana Kali, the Trishul and Khappar are no more with Maa.. She passes on her weapons to the Sadhaka who has to master over world and life to then reach the ultimate mother - Maa Adya Kali.

-Kaushik Karra