Kalidasa's Untold Story The legend of Kālīdāsa in literature, is known from his glorious Sanskrit-language works like Abhijñānaśākuntalam, Mālavikāgnimitra, Vikramōrvaśīya, Raghuvamsa, Kumārasambhava, and Meghadūta. But, his legend is actually his personal deity, the Goddess Kālī. There are almost no 'sources' that support this. And, in this day and age, majority of the hardcore academicians, scientists, etc., consider faith in God as a concept that is/was necessary for glorifying and acknowledging unknown forces of the world/universe. Ah, yes, why do some people worship Narasimha, the lion-man? One 'rational' but agnotist friend of mine, thought of a possible reason: As some people in the ancient Vedic tribes feared a pack of lions that were attacking their livestock and themselves, they 'invented' the concept of a lion-man deity whom they could fear and respect in return for protection. The same friend also gave another explanation: there was a boy called Prahalada, who adopted a lion cub as pet, and people called it Nara-Simha, meaning Man-Lion, but actually intending to mean the lion among men. And, why is the Goddess worshiped? People in theosophy and comparative religion say: in order to glorify the motherhood aspect of nature, nature itself was personified and worshiped. The more rationalist of these people go on to say that, it really does not mean that a Goddess Kālī exists in reality. But Shri Ramakrishna didn't think so. To the author, all these Gods and Goddesses do exist, as the various faces of the supreme intellect and the mastermind that is the creator, protector and destroyer of universes. One of his ways of communicating with his creation, was through these faces.