Mother! Mother! My boat is sinking, here in the ocean of this world;

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Mother! Mother! My boat is sinking, here in the ocean of this world;

Fiercely the hurricane of delusion rages on every side!

Clumsy is my helmsman, the mind; stubborn my six oarsmen, the

passions,

Into a pitiless wind,

I sailed my boat, and now it is sinking,

Split is the rudder of devotion, tattered is the sail of faith;

Into my boat the waters are pouring! Tell me, what shall I do?

For with my failing eyes, alas! nothing but darkness do I see.

Here in the waves I would swim

O Mother, cling to the raft of Thy name!

 

(The Gospel of Ramakrishna Volume 1,The Master with Brahmo

Devotees,pg156)

 

 

Jai Kali!!!