A Hymn to mother Kali.......

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O MOTHER, saviour of the helpless, thou the slayer of sin!

in thee do the three gunas dwell-sattva, rajas, and tamas,

thou dost create the world, thou dost sustain it and destroy it,

building thyself with attributes, thou yet transcendest them,

for thou, O MOTHER, art the all,

KALI thou art, and TARA, and thou the ultimate prakriti,

thou art the fish, the turtle, the boar, and all the avatars,

earth, water, air, and fire art thou, and thou the sky,

O MOTHER OF the ABSOLUTE!

 

THE SAMKHYA, PATANJALA, MIMASAKA, AND NYAYA,

for ever seek to fathom thee and know thine inmost nature,

vedanta and vaiseshika are searching after THEE,

BUT NONE OF THEM HAVE FOUND THEE OUT,

though free of limitation, beginningless and without end,

yet for thy loving bhaktas' sake, THOU wearest varying forms,

the terrors of this world thou dost remove, and thou dost dwell

alike in present, past and future.

 

thou dost appear with forms, to him who loves thee as a person,

THOU art the absolute, to him who worships formless truth,

some theRe are who speak alone of the resplendent BRAHMAN,

even this, O BLISSFUL MOTHER, is nothing else but thou,

each man, according to his measure, makes his image of the truth,

calling it THE higheST BRAHMAN,

BEYOND THIS DOES turiya SHINE, THE INDESTRUCTIBLE,

O MOTHER of all things, which does pervade the universe,

even one of these art THOU!

 

hymn from the gospel of sri ramakrishna

 

 

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