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He who has seen my Mother

Nazrul Islam, Nazrul Islam poetry, Muslim / Sufi, Muslim / Sufi poetry,  poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Yoga / Hindu poetry by Nazrul Islam
(1899 - 1976) Timeline

English version by
Rachel Fell McDermott

Original Language
Bengali

Muslim / Sufi
Yoga / Hindu : Shakta (Goddess-oriented)
20th Century

He who has seen my Mother
can he hate his brother?
She loves everyone in the three worlds;
her heart cries for all.
With her there's no difference of caste,
no distinction between high and low;
all are the same.
If she sees a Candala
like Rama with Guhak
she clasps him to her breast.
Ma is our Great Illusion, highest Nature, and
Father our highest Self;
     that's why one feels love for all
     we feel love for all.
If you worship the Mother
hating her children
she won't accept your puja;
the Ten-Armed One will not.
The day we forget the knowledge of difference
          on that day only
          will Ma come home to us.

 

 

-- from Singing to the Goddess: Poems to Kali and Uma from Bengal, Translated by Rachel Fell McDermott

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Themes

  Heart
  Womb
 
 
 


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Singing to the Goddess: Poems to Kali and Uma from Bengal, Translated by Rachel Fell McDermott

 

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