bharati bhavani aurobindo

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.. bhavAnI bhAratI ..

by Sri Aurobindo

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l. As I lay sunk in the comfort of my couch and my mind wandered on the roadsof Spring, 1 thought of my people, of poetry, of wife and enjoyments, pleasureand possessions.

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2. I shaped my delight into elegant verse in lyrical stanzas of sensuouspassion; I sang of the smile on my beloveds face and of the revered and mostsacred feet of the Mother.

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3. My country wept all around me, for a villainous Titan oppressed her children.Led by self-interest, I paid homage to the feet of the evil one stained with theblood of my brothers.

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4. Lying at ease on a soft couch and dreaming of pleasures, enjoyments andwealth, I felt on my chest the touch of a dreadful hand and to my eyes grewvisible the shape of Kali.

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5. Garlanded with the bones of men and girdled with human skulls, with, bellyand eyes like a wolfs, hungry and poor, scarred on her back by the Titanslashes, roaring like a lioness who lusts for kill,

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6. with her fierce, hungry, blazing eyes irradiating all the worlds, rendingthe hearts of the gods with the piercing ring of her war-cry,

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7. filling the world with bestial sounds and licking her terrible jaws,

fierce and naked, like the eyes of a savage beast in the dark-thus did I see theMother.

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8. The mountain-tops cowered beneath her dangling locks and the seas drew backfrom her awful fangs; her breath scattered the torn clouds and earth trembled atthe fall of her feet.

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9. Arise! Give! The Mothers thirsting call resounded through the night in thestarless city. Thundering, the noble goddess filled with her presence thenights blackness and the hearts of men.

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10. Alarmed and shaken in mind, I sprang from my couch and questioned thatshape of darkness which compelled worship: Who art thou who appearest to myheart in the night in thy terrible splendour? What must I do? Speak! Salutationto thee, O dreadful goddess!

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11. Uttering a sound like the lions roar when it roams ferocious in the junglein search of prey, the goddess in her form of terror loosed forth words like thethundering of ocean upon the rocks.

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12. I am the mother, O child, of the Bharatas, the eternal people beloved ofthe gods, whom neither hostile Fate nor Time nor Death has power to destroy.

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13. Their strength purified by their continence, rendered noble by selfknowledgeand severe austerities, resplendent like a thousand suns they shone on aprosperous earth.

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14. Heroic and bold, they would brook no hint of defiance from their foes.Worshipping the Mother with the sacrifice of her enemies, at battles end theystood radiant, their limbs anointed with blood.

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15. But who are these pitiful and indigent wretches who in their blindness

embrace a degrading peace like a prostitute? O you unmanly and weakminded men!Do you not know that it is Death you clasp?

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16. How long will you thus impotently bear your lives in suffering, wantonlybeaten by your oppressors? Your haters laugh at you; you buy with peace a heapof dishonour and the depletion of your wealth.

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17. Who is this, sanctified by the nectarous touch of the feet of foreignbarbarians, who prides himself on being a Brahmin? You are a Shudra less Aryanthen the Shudras! Of what use are these vows for the traveller on the path toHell?

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18. Arise! Awake! Leave your ritual fires, for you are the incarnate lustreof Krishna, the Supreme. Go forth consuming your enemies with the fire thatdwells eternal in your breast.

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19. Who is this relative of Kshatriyas hiding in his palace with wine and thedarting glances of voluptuous women? Your duty and honour have you forgotten in


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your weakness? Fight, hypocrite, and preserve the Dharma!

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20. Iron there is and the sword is sharp; the cruel cannon bellows here in adrunken fury. How is it that you are unarmed? You lie as if dead! Protect yourrace, be Aryan and a slayer of your foes.

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21. And what kind of Vaishya are you here? What goods are these arrayed inthe market-places for the prospering of the people? This is the wealth of theforeign exploiter! You impoverish me, Kali, O vile traitor to your Mother!

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22. Give to the flames this wealth of the foreigner. Do you not fear theburning wrath of Kali? Worshipping the goddess Bhavani in your heart, strive andenrich your motherland.

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23. You and you, O peoples of Avanti and Magadha, Vanga, Anga and Kalinga, OKurus and men of Sind: hear me! O southerners, you of Andhra and the Cholacountry, and you heroes of the land of the five rivers;

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24. you who adore the triple form of the one Lord and you, my Mohammedansons, who worship Him in His uniqueness: I, the Mother, call all of you, for allare my children. Shake off your slumber! Oh, hear!

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25. Listen to the drum of Time on the mountain-tops. Behold pitiless Death,my messenger. Famine and earthquake announce that I have come in the fullness ofmy might.

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26. Offer sacrifice to me; give, for I am thirsty. Seeing me, know and adorethe original Power, ranging here as Kali who roars aloud and hungers to enjoythe heads and bodies of mighty rulers.

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27. Not by torrents of blood from hundreds and thousands and tens ofthousands of goats am I satisfied. Break open your hearts and offer that bloodto me, for so do they worship the unborn and dreadful Goddess.

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28. Wheresoever are great heroes and leaders engaged in continual selfsacrificefor the good of their race, towards those nations does Kali grow gracious,nourished with blood, and they crush their enemies.

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29. Whom do you fear, O Aryans? Plunge into this sea of blood; show that youare made of Aryan stuff indeed! Lo, there on the further shore see a lightarise, inviolable in brilliance and armed with the trident.

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30. O poet and sensualist, hear the word of the Mother: adore Kali the Terrible,my son, the fierce Chandi. Verily you shall see her, the mother of the Bharatas,striking down her foes mightily in the thick of the fight.

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31. Summon forth to battle the ancient tribes of the Bharatas. Let there bevictory; fear not. Lo, I have awakened! Where is the bow, where the sword?Arise, arise, O sleeping lions!

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32. Hearing these words in the night and beholding in the darkness a dreadfulsplendour, my heart danced and leaving my house, shaking off my pleasures, I


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quickly went forth.

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33. I saw then this land of India, the Aryan country, wrapped thickly indarkness, suffering, blinded; hidden in the night, ruined by her enemies, themother of the Bharatas wept aloud.

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34. I cast my glance about in the night, grieved, searching out my brothersin the shadows. Their corpses I saw on the ground, pitiable, reduced toskeletons.

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35. Then did I see a lordly Titan, crowned, gigantic, bearing a thunderbolt,feeding the hordes of his offspring with the tears of the Mother mixed with ahundred streams of her blood.

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36. Oppressing with one foot the invincible Himalaya, with the other the plainsof Andhra and Paundra, he brandished a harsh sword over China and the land ofthe Pahlavas (Persia).

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37. As I looked on him, huge and vile, inflated with the pride of hisstrength, unrighteous and boasting of righteousness, my heart became like afire-pit and burned with an undying wrath.

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38. The dread voice of the goddess was raised to call out of their sleep theimperishable tribes. Then, uttering a fierce flood of cries, she came to myside, formidable like the night.

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39. Earth and sea shook with the awful violence of her words and the heavensthundered back. The terror of her angry looks afflicted the creation like adeluge of fire.

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40. All the three worlds were filled with the maddening summons of Kali. Avolcano of devastating flame issued from the throat in immortal words.

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41. Now 1 saw armies as if roused from sleep, agitated by the intense

agitation that had seized the world, shouting fiercely, Death to the villain!9

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42. Growing aware of the Mothers weeping and her wounds, hundreds of eyesdarted lightning. Then thousands of faces turned, dire with rage, upon the dreadlord of Titans.

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43. Who are you Aho, while her sons slept who are now eager for battle, havedrunk the blood of the mother of the Aryans like a Rakshasa, bellowing in thenight? Who are you who, strong, oppress the weak, O fallen one, food for Death?

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44. As she uttered these words, incensed, the violent goddess lifted a weapon, afire-hurling bow, and rushed at her fearsome opponent. Before her and behind herKali roared.

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45. Tile earth grew lurid with flame and swift tongues of flaming wrath lickedthe sky. Sounds of neighing and the rumble of drums frightened the world as Kalifought with the Titan.


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46. Clouds stained with blood seemed to burn in the heavens and a fierce rainof blood fell upon the earth. The mountains rose up from a bloodred sea. All the

land was as if turned to blood.

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47. The mighty Titan, terrible in the night, was crushing the armies of thepeople beloved of the gods. Intoxicated with pride, the enemy of the godsthundered, Who is there in the world who is equal to me?

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48. Then, repelling the darkness and piercing the adversary with beams likearrows, 1 saw with a thrill of gladness a rising sun that shed a ruddy glow inthe heavens, casting its rays aloft.

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49. Crowded with glorious faces of the future, 1 beheld now the creator Brahmain the shape of a cloud whence looked forth a thousand eyes that foresaw theMothers deliverance from fear.

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50. l hen, far off in the north, there arose, gracious, annihilating allenemies, a white light in the form of a Woman delightful in beauty, as radiantas twenty million dazzling suns.

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51. Enraptured, the gode in the luminous realms sang her praises; the birdsin the mid-region sang sweetly of her, and men prostrating themselves on theearth sang of her as she entered the world dispelling its anguish.

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52. On the Himalayan summits, steadfast in meditation, their bodies turned toice, the great Yogis who through numberless ages have guarded Indias destinypraised her with joy.

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53. Brushing slowly from eyes fathomless with wisdom the snow the ages hadheaped there, they chanted in their puissance to the mighty Goddess terrible inradiant beauty:

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54. Salutation to thee, O Goddess omnipotent! To thee I bow who art terribleand mighty and compassionate. Thou alone preservest these peoples. Salutation to

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55. Who is there who can describe thy might, O Goddess impetuous in thy ways?With one delicate hand thou settest whirling or arrestest in its motion theuniverse with all its stars and suns, O infinite in energy.

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56. When, wielding the trident, thou dancest, O Chandi, on the gruesomebattlefield noisy with jackals, the vast multitudes of stars seem to tremble inthe firmamentat the touch of thy weapon.

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57. Thy heart melting with pity for the weeping of men, thou smitest theheads of the oppressors of the people. Ravenous Death, the eater of the world,is thy servant who rides on the prongs of thy trident.

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58. Thou art the supreme Power awakening in millions of impassioned men.Incarnating thyself, thou preservest this noble people when it is fallen intodistress. From age to age thou fightest, O Mother of the Arvans.

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59. Today again 1 behold thy dazzling white form on the mountains of thenorth; effulgent thy- light arises, O gracious one, illumining the worlds with

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60. Thou rangest here, noble goddess, with thy lovely limbs of radiance mountedon a cow drunk with the zest of battle, and all around thee the Titan hoststumble like lofty peaks uprooted.

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61. Bright of hue and with round black horns, she romps about like aswiftmoving mass of snow: it is the Aryan land of India, dear to the gods, whotramples her enemies in this shape of a cow.

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62. F -he legions of those who had defeated the gods, the lustre of theirlaces turning pale with fear, flee suddenly like cataracts clown themountainsides, clamorous and intent on speed.

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63. I hear, O formidable goddess, the noble tones of thy fierce cry ofvictory echoed by the people of Punjab. Louder still, O fearsome warrior, isheard the uproar of the opposing forces as they are slaughtered.

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64. Yonder Jumna, whose stream witnessed the sports of Krishna, has lost itssapphire hue, turning red with blood. Behold the soil of Bengal turned to abloody mire, while the southern quarter gleams blood-red.

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65. Touched by thy trident, the regions of the sky seem to bleed, diffusing areddish light everywhere. Due to the exceeding violence of thy warfare, Odreadful one, the clouds that bore water have become carriers of blood.

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66. On the rocky sea-beaches 1 have seen the Goddess annihilating in battleher remaining adversaries. Merciless, wrathful and beneficent, she cuts downwith her trident the enemies of Shiva, the beneficent Lord.

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67. What is this, hideous and black, trampled by the hooves of the cow of thegods? It is a lump of flesh which I see on the ground: this is all that is left

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68. From that disfigured heap what broken heads seem to emerge! Feet and handslie here and there. Cruel art thou, O Rudrani, in thy savage deeds!

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69. Cruel art thou, O Rudrani; or rather is this mercy, as it were, towardsthe base and cruel tyrant priding himself on the affliction of the people, thathe should receive in battle a noble death leading to heaven.

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70. Though his life has departed, one hand of this enemy of Rudra still holdsa fire-spitting weapon. Charred and mangled, it is as if the demon .yet hurls atBhavani his burnt life-force.

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71. I see currents of flame spewing from the mouth of the deadly weapon; butfor all his insolence, and though he lies before her, he cannot reach the formof Chandi wrapped in an aura of splendour.

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72. A sword thrust between his horns paralyses that parting gesture. Thus Ideem thee to have fulfilled thy mighty vow, O Goddess of immense energy.

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73. Salutation to thee, O Goddess vast in thy power, to thee of terrible vowswho carriest us through our difficult labour. Thou reignest as Bharati over theBharatas; as the supreme Goddess thou rulest all this universe of animate andinanimate things.

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74. Thou art the supreme -Goddess, thou the Mother of creatures; who else haspower? Mastery, supremacy and blameless lustre are gifts from thee, O opulentone, thou who givest these smitest also when thou art angered.

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75. Salutation, salutation, O noble goddess with thy large eyes of sweetness!This thy vehicle with its lovely hue of snow raises thy flag, as it were, in theblack, glossy tip of its uplifted tail.

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76. Salutation, salutation, O Goddess! Forcibly loosened by the exertion ofbattle, the array of thy unbraided tresses flying about, long and wavy, appearsto float like a cloud in the sky.

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77. When thy eyes flash with anger, O white-faced goddess, thou art like astreak of lightning fallen to earth; like lightning amid the thunderclouds thvdreadful laughter plays in the corners of thy eyes.

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78. This white neck of thine is bent slightly to look at thy fallen andlifeless foemen. The white legs of Bhavani, from the feet to the beautifulknees, gleam like pillars of snow.

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79. Fluttering in the breeze, thy bright and airy robe is a luminous cloudfrom whose midst thy radiant firnbs shine forth like moonlight.

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80. This breast of thine is a foaming wave of milk swelling in the MilkyOcean. Difficult art thou to discern, O Mother, when my gale falls back fromtire splendour of thv body of beauty.

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81. Thou art ancient, t) Goddess -before Shiva thou wartyet thou wearest thisform of a maiden. Salutation to thee, O beginningless Mother! Be graci,)us, Oterrible One. to those who prostrate themselves before thee.

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82. Pointing to a land dark with trees visible in the vast spaces between themountains, thy hand is extended, O compassionate one, O Rudrani, grantingfreedom from fear to the peoples.

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83. By that sign of thy flowerlike hand the darkness is expelled from theland of the Bharatas. -h he clouds of blood vanish from the skies. Unthinkableis thy strength; beautiful thou art and gracious.

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84. Gracious is thy noble form white as snow, gracious the exaltedcountenance of Bhavani; I bow to the Mighty One robed in white, radiant with thebright beauty of youth, her eyes moist with compassion.

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85. Where now is that terrible figure, garlanded with the bones of men andgirdled with skulls, naked and fierce, dreadful with her gaping mouth, by whose

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86. In the river of blood which flows yonder laughs the shadow of the beautifulOne, brandishing a sword, thundering, naked and hideous: I bow to Kali!

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87. Thou indeed art Kali and utterly ruthless thou art; thou art Annapurna,the merciful and gracious. I bow to thee as the Violent One, O ender of theworlds; I bow to thee, O Radha, in thy ecstasy of love.

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88. Who can support in himself thy plenitude of infinite Power in which allthy forms are manifest, O Goddess omnipotent? Thou art this blazing might andthou art the strength of the strong; thou art also the gentlest of the gentle.

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89. Two-armed in thy gracious aspect I bow to thee, and again with tridentuplifted bringing deliverance from fear; to thee I bow, O Mother, O radiantSavitri, O three-eyed one, thy white-limbed, white-robed loveliness mounted on abull.

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90. Ten-armed with all thy ten weapons thou protectest the Aryans, O Motherunattainable in the ten directions; as the womb of the world thou sitst with athousand arms embracing thy children, unthinkable in thy energy.

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91. Illumining with her rays the impenetrable depths of the forests, her formlike a mountain of fire, terrible and sublime, I see the gracious Goddessstanding, sword in hand, at the gates of the cities of the Aryan country.

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92. The mighty Mother of creatures has vanquished the Age of Strife. Onceagain the movements of freedom are abroad; I observe them following the paths ofthe ancient scriptures.

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93. Once again 1 hear in the forests the chanting of the Veda which is afountain of immortalising nectar to the heart. An overflowing river of humanity

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94. Once again the eternal ways of the Dharma are guarded by one nobly bornin the Solar Race. And once again resplendent Lakshmi, a smile on her lips,reigns steadfast among the Bharatas.

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95. In East and West I hear the cry and stir of the whole world hasteningwith praise on its tongue to this country, the ancient Mother of the Vedas.

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96. Praising the gracious and awe-inspiring Mother as the source of the trueLaw, the fulfiller of mighty vows, they revere as a place of pilgrimage thisland dear to the Goddess beginningless in her power.

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97. As those who dwell in Shivas sacred city of Kashi are liberated by theauspicious touch of the Lord, so all this Aryan country where the Goddess hasset her purifying feet shall be the Kashi of the world.

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98. O infinite in thy forms, thou art contentment, compassion, patience andindomitable heroism, faith and endurance and knowledge of every kind. Be

gracious, noble goddess; dwell long in the hearts of the Indian people!

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99. Illumining these rivers and snowy mountains with a mosti gentle lustre,be firmly established in the Aryan country. Abide forever gracious in this land,0 Mighty One, for the good of the world!

Encoded by Sarada Susarla (sarada [email protected])

Please send corrections to [email protected] updated August 6, 2004

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Note : English trans above is by Shri Aurobindo himselftamasaavRta cetasi vajrasamam navajaagaraNaaya pracodakaram || 100 ||aravindapraNiitamidam shatakam paripiidita bhaarata maatR ravam |

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