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Yoga / Hindu : Shakta (Goddess-oriented)

18th Century

About Ramprasad (Ramprasad Sen)

Timeline (1718? - 1775?)

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English version by
Leonard Nathan and Clinton Seely

Original Language
Bengali

O Mother, who really

Themes

Pain and Wounding

Womb

Recommended Books

	Devoted to the Goddess : The Life and Work of Ramprasad, by Malcolm Mclean
	The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, by M. (Sri Mahendra Gupta) / Translated by Swami Nikhilananda
	Grace and Mercy in Her Wild Hair: Ramprasad Sen - Selected Poems to the Mother Goddess, Translated by Leonard Nathan / Clinton Seely
	Great Swan: Meetings with Ramakrishna, by Lex Hixon
	Kali: The Black Goddess of Dakshineswar, by Elizabeth U. Harding

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O Mother, who really
Knows Your magic?

You're a crazy girl
Driving us all crazy with these tricks.

No one knows anyone else
In a world of Your illusions.

Kali's tricks are so deft,
We act on what we see.

And what suffering --
All because of a crazy girl!

Who knows
What She truly is?

Ramprasad says: If She decides
To be kind, this misery will pass.

-- from Grace and Mercy in Her Wild Hair: Ramprasad Sen - Selected Poems to the Mother Goddess, Translated by Leonard Nathan / Clinton Seely

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