Tattva 7 — Limited Agency (Kalā)

Kalā is the first of five 'cloaks' that wrap the contracted self once it falls below the veil of māyā. It curtails the divine's unlimited creative power down to the limited capacity-to-act of an individual: where Śiva can do anything, the bound self can do only a little. This is the seed of the feeling 'I can do only so much' — the infinite power of action narrowed to a finite agency.