object:35.03 - Hymn To Bhavani
book class:Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
author class:Nolini Kanta Gupta
subject class:Integral Yoga
class:chapter
Hymn to Hara-Gauri Hymn To Surya
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Other Hymns and PrayersHymn To Bhavani
Hymn To Bhavani
NOR father nor mother, nor friends nor brothers,
Nor son nor daughter, nor servants nor master,
Nor bride nor learning nor profession have I:
Thou art the refuge, thou the sole refuge, O Bhavani!
In this world, this shoreless ocean brimming with its dread
suffering,
I lie prostrate, full of desire, full of greed, full of delusion;
For ever entangled I am in the meshes of Wrong movements:
Thou art the refuge, thou the sole refuge, O Bhavani!
I know neither benefaction nor meditation nor yoga,
Nor do I know secret practices nor charms nor chants occult;
I know not rites of worship, nor the process of renouncing:
Thou art the refuge, thou the sole refuge, O Bhavani!
I know not virtue, I know not pilgrimage,
I know not liberation nor any annihilation either,
I know not devotion nor even ascetic discipline, O Mother;
Thou art the refuge, thou the sole refuge, O Bhavani!
I am a wrong-doer, wrong company, wrong-witted, wrong servant,
I have abandoned all customs of ancestors and I have embraced all wrong customs;
To see wrong, to speak wrong I am always prone:
Thou art the refuge, thou the sole refuge, O Bhavani!
Lord of the people, Lord of the Divine Mother,
the great Lord Himself, the Lord of the Gods,
Lord of the day, Lord of the night,
I know none else among the Gods for everlasting shelter;
Thou art the refuge, thou the sole refuge, O Bhavani!
In strife and gloom, in error, in other lands,
In water and fire, in the mountains and among enemies,
In forest-ranges I seek my shelter, protect me always:
Thou art the refuge, thou the sole refuge, O Bhavani!
I have no protector, I am destitute, I am stricken with age
and ailings,
Wholly dispossessed, lowliest, ever reduced to an inert figure;
I have entered into calamity, thoroughly undone:
Thou art the refuge, thou the sole refuge, O Bhavani!
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Hymn to Hara-Gauri Hymn To Surya
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