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<font size="4">Hymn to Bhavani</font><o:p></o:p></b></h1>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>NOR father nor mother, nor friends nor brothers,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Nor son nor daughter, nor servants nor master,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Nor bride nor learning nor profession have I:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thou art the refuge, thou the sole refuge, O Bhavani!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In this world, this
shoreless ocean brimming with its dread</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span><span style='mso-tab-count:6'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>suffering,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>I lie prostrate, full of desire, full of
greed, full of delusion;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>For ever entangled I am in
the meshes of Wrong movements:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thou art the refuge, thou
the sole refuge, O Bhavani!</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I know neither benefaction nor meditation nor yoga,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Nor do I know secret practices nor charms nor chants
occult;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I know not rites of worship, nor the process of
renouncing: </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thou art the refuge, thou the sole refuge, O Bhavani!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I know not virtue, I know not pilgrimage,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I know not liberation nor any annihilation either,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I know not devotion nor even ascetic discipline, O
Mother; </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thou art the refuge, thou the sole refuge, O Bhavani!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I am a wrong-doer, wrong company, wrong-witted, wrong
<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>servant,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:
-27.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I have abandoned all
customs of ancestors and I have embraced all wrong customs;<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>

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242.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>To see wrong, to speak
wrong I am always prone:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:
242.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thou art the refuge,
thou the sole refuge, O Bhavani!</p>

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Page-55<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Lord of the people, Lord of the Divine Mother,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>the great Lord Himself, the Lord of
the Gods, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Lord of the day, Lord of the night,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I know none else among the Gods for everlasting
shelter; </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thou art the refuge, thou the sole refuge, O Bhavani!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In strife and gloom, in error, in other lands,</p>

<p class=MsoBodyText style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 260pt; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>In water and fire, in the
mountains and among enemies,<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoBodyText style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 260pt; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>In forest-ranges I seek my
shelter, protect me always: <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoBodyText style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 260pt; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thou art the refuge, thou
the sole refuge, O Bhavani!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I have no protector, I am
destitute, I am stricken with age</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span><span style='mso-tab-count:6'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>and
ailings,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Wholly dispossessed,
lowliest, ever reduced to an inert figure;</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I have entered into
calamity, thoroughly undone:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thou art the refuge, thou
the sole refuge, O Bhavani!</p>

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