I THUS QUESTION THE UNIVERSAL MOTHER

B. Indira Kumari

O Universal Mother! How wonderful always are Thy ways!

Here thou lookest all smiles and there Thou nearest ferocious looks,

Now Thy love showeth in abundance now Thy acts as so merciless,

Some Thou takest to Thy soothing for some and lovingly them fondle,

And to the other some, Thou dearest Thy loves soft cradle,

Is it Thou dost whip with horrors only the unrighteous?

Ah! Quite, quite contradictory to our conceptions are Thy acts,

Only the weak and the helpless are being teased where as the vicious

Enjoy life’s Sweets. The Sages preach only the good in the end despite all sorrows.

Attains the immortal bliss and the unruly now with worldly pleasures

Are for ever caught in the whirlpool of seeing joys, wanting in peace

How to believe the words of Sages and Saints and keep quite?

I won’t believe, O Mother unless, Thou, Thy self dost convince me, descending into mine heart

The heart ever prepared, Thy to welcome with all love and devotion

And to make Thy the permanent captive of its love, Thou.

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