THE FEAR OF DEATH

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My Mind, why so fretful, like a motherless child? Coming into the

world you sit brooding, shivering in the dread of death. Yet

there is a Death that conquers death, the Mightiest Death,

which lies beneath the Mother's Feet.

 

You, a serpent, fearing frogs! How amazing! What terror of death is

this in you, the child of the Mother-Heart of all? What folly is this,

what utter madness? Child of that Mother-Heart, what will you dread?

Wherefore brood in vain sorrow?

 

Utter without ceasing Durga's name, as terror vanishes with

waking, so will it be with you.

 

The twice-born Ramprasad says: Mind, quit you like mind! Act the

truth your teachers showed you. What then can the Child of the

Sun do unto you?

 

--Ramprasad Sen