Kaala is Time.
In Ancient Indian Scriptures, the word Kaala is used in many places to indicate time as well as death. There are many variants to this as well viz. Kaala, Kaal, Kalki, Kaali, Kali, Kaala-sarpa etc.
Kaala is also termed as dark in colour. So Yama - the God of Death, Krishnah etc. are dark. While Kaala-andhaka or destroyer of Kaala - ie. Shiva is white in color - body smeared with hot-white ash of the cremation grounds.
A note on Yama, the God of Death:-
- Yama comes from Sun - is the son of Sun because Sun gives us the sense of Time. Yama also is a measure of time equivalent to 1/4 th of a day (light) or night equivalent to 3 hrs. (Must see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_units_of_time)
The 'Remover of Obstacles' - Lord Ganesha also rides the dark one (mouse) - Kaala and is called Kaala-Mooshaka. 'Mooshakah' means thief. Thus the Mooshakah steals away our time and there is no way we can recover it from it. If there are obstacles then the time is again lost. Therefore the destroyer of obstacles has always the full control of Time. Lord Ganesha, the 'stenographer' to the epic 'Mahabharata' completed the world's largest epic of more than a lakh verses in record time. Even when his scribe/pen broke off, the determined Ganesha, sacrificed his own pointed tooth by breaking off one of his own tusks to replace it for the pen and continued with his job.
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