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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
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RAMPRASAD</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>

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10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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

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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; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>SAY what does it mean:</p>

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none;tab-stops:right 277.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp; </span>the eyes drip with tears (when one takes the
name of Kali) ?</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; 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; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>You have seen much, your. wisdom is great,</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>say for certain what it
is.</p>

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none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>One sense I make out: the body is but a sunken log!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The name Kali is a fire burning .on the tongue,</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:20.85pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>a fire that is flowing water, flooding water.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I meditate also upon the Lord and close my eyes</p>

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none;tab-stops:20.85pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>and wait for sleep to descend.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Lord carries the Ganges on his head and</p>

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none;tab-stops:20.85pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>it is her clear stream.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Guru commands, the holy spot between the
eye-brows</p>

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none;tab-stops:20.85pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>is a place of pilgrimage surpassing
others –­</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It is the fruit that the confluent Ganga and Yamuna</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>bear together.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Prasad says, 0 my mind, this much I beg of you,</p>

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none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>May I find a place near you on the bank of<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>the confluence.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 67<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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

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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;&nbsp;I HAVE brooded over it</p>

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none;tab-stops:-1.25in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>and I am utterly confused;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>She in whose name one defies dark Time,</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>she at whose feet lies low
the Supreme</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>in his pure whiteness,</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>why should she herself be
black?</p>

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none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Many are the forms of blackness,</p>

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none;tab-stops:-76.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>but here is a very marvel of
blackness.</p>

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none;tab-stops:161.75pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>If you
hold it in your heart,</p>

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none;tab-stops:-67.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>the lotus there shall bloom and
illumine all ­</p>

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none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Oh, she is dark and her name is Mother Darkness:</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:
1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>she is blacker than blackness.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But one who has seen that beauty is lost for good,</p>

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none;tab-stops:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>he will have no eye for any other
beauty.</p>

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none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Amused and curious Prasad says: where was She,</p>

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none;tab-stops:-.25in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>such a lass!</p>

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none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Never saw her, only heard of her and yet the mind</p>

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style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>has shot out and stuck into Her!<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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