The Heritage of India Series. Bengali Religious Lyrics Sakta (Selected and Translated)

This is as true of the Christian the Muslim the Zoroastrian as of the Hindu. [...] It was natural for them to look for outside assistance and the thoughts of the poet their spokesman turned to Chandi (Durga) the powerful goddess in whom the dreadful energy of 1 Outline of the Religious Literature of India pp. [...] The cult of Kali received another great revival in the days of the swadeshi struggle within the present century when the thought of the educated-classes began to be consolidated in the-demand for the control of their own destinies. [...] His mind has been a bad farmer ; he is treading the Round of Existence like the blindfold ox that serves the oilman ' chained to the log' of the world ; the Six Passions like crocodiles' haunting the bathing ghat watch for his soul ; or they are robbers leaping over the mud wall of his courtyard ;6 or they are hired bullies with clubs ' like the ruffians kept by Bengali rajas and squires ; the [...] He saw Kali in the red flames of the burning-grollnd - flickering and dancing in the breeze ; in the flash of the lightriing or IComing with the black matted 'cloud-locks of 'the storm.' This terror leading to imperfect trust :intrudes even into his love of Kali hs Mother.