Meaning and elaboration
Meaning: The Sustainer of Enjoyment and Experience
Elaboration
The name Bhoga Dharini means "She who sustains or carries (Dharini) enjoyment or experience (Bhoga)." This many-sided name points to Kali not only as the destroyer, but also as the ultimate source and support of all worldly and spiritual experience.
The Nature of Bhoga In Hindu philosophy, Bhoga refers both to sensory enjoyment and to the experiences, or karma-phala, that an individual undergoes in life. It includes the objects of pleasure and pain, as well as the many conditions and states that arise in the phenomenal world. Bhoga is the field of experience in which the jiva, the individual soul, moves and acts.
Divine Sustainer of Experience As Bhoga Dharini, Kali is the supreme power, Shakti, that sustains this entire field of experience. She is the energy through which enjoyment and suffering alike unfold. She does not merely stand apart as an observer. She upholds the very fabric of existence that makes every form of material and spiritual experience possible. In that sense, she is the ground on which the entire drama of life is enacted.
Transcending Bhoga through Bhoga This name also carries profound spiritual significance. For the Tantric practitioner, Kali is the means through which one may experience Bhoga and ultimately transcend it. By embracing experience, not by rejecting it, but by seeing it as a manifestation of the Divine Mother, the devotee can transform ordinary pleasure and pain into vehicles of spiritual awakening. Bhoga Dharini teaches that the world of experience can itself become a path to liberation when it is approached with awareness, devotion, and recognition of her presence in every sensation.
The Ultimate Provider She is also the giver of all sustenance, not only physical sustenance, but the inner support that allows one to continue through the cycles of experience. She provides the very framework and energy through which life's enjoyments and lessons are received, endured, and integrated.