Mother, you brought me down into the world, saying, 'Let us play.'[1] You cheated me, and in the game that you have played my hope has not found fulfilment.
Rāamprasād says: In the world-play, what was to be has been. Now at eventide, taking your child in your bosom, go home.
Another famous song. The 'hope of hope' recalls the Greek σκιᾶς ὄναρ. Birth after birth, and all is vanity and disappointment.
XI. HE TRUSTS KĀLĪ THOUGH SHE
NEGLECTS HIM
Mother, you are in my heart.
Dark Goddess, who says you are in my heart? You are a stony-hearted girl, a harmful delusion. Through how much trouble you make me pass! In the difference [2] of worship, all the Five Forms become yours. He that knows the Five are but One, from him, Mother, how will you escape? He that knows, and rests all on you, him you will not help! But will the man who knows the worth of gold accept glass?[3] Prāsād says: My heart is of the right tint of the lotus[4] You, building those five into one, dance and dwell in my mind!
XII. HIS VAIN AND EARNEST SEARCH FOR
SALVATION BY KNOWLEDGE
I thought I had attained to truth. I had learnt from the wise. I found a teacher in the land where there is
- ↑ The reader will remember that to the Hindu all life is līlā,sport or drama.
- ↑ There are Five main cults, according to the deities worshipped (Siva, Kālī, Vishṇu, Sūrya—the Sun-God—and Gaṇeśa).All five cults, Rāmprasād says, are cults of the Mother, and she meets her worshippers in these five ways.
- ↑ Will he worship any other deity?
- ↑ 'Is five pure lotuses'—i.e. all the Five cults find a place in his heart. The Tantric system of physiology teaches that there
