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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:
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:
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;
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:
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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;
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:
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:
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