Mahakali

From: Savitri - Book Seven, Canto 4, The Triple Soul-Forces Part of : VII:iv Section 2 (123) I stand upon earth’s paths of danger and grief And help the unfortunate and save the doomed. ||123.11|| To the strong I bring the guerdon of their strength, To the weak I bring the armour of my force; To men who long I carry their coveted joy: I am fortune justifying the great and wise By the sanction of the plaudits of the crowd, Then trampling them with the armed heel of Fate. ||123.12|| My ear is leaned to the cry of the oppressed, I topple down the thrones of tyrant kings: A cry comes from proscribed and hunted lives Appealing to me against a pitiless world, A voice of the forsaken and desolate And the lone prisoner in his dungeon cell. ||123.13|| Men hail in my coming the Almighty’s force Or praise with thankful tears his saviour Grace. ||123.14|| I smite the Titan who bestrides the world And slay the ogre in his blood-stained den. ||123.15|| I am Durga, goddess of the proud and strong, And Laksmi, queen of the fair and fortunate; I wear the face of Kali when I kill, I trample the corpses of the demon hordes. ||123.16|| I am charged by God to do his mighty work, Uncaring I serve his will who sent me forth, Reckless of peril and earthly consequence. ||123.17|| I reason not of virtue and of sin But do the deed he has put into my heart. ||123.18|| I fear not for the angry frown of Heaven, I flinch not from the red assault of Hell; I crush the opposition of the gods, Tread down a million goblin obstacles. ||123.19|| I guide man to the path of the Divine And guard him from the red Wolf and the Snake. ||123.20|| I set in his mortal hand my heavenly sword And put on him the breastplate of the gods. ||123.21|| I break the ignorant pride of human mind And lead the thought to the wideness of the Truth; I rend man’s narrow and successful life And force his sorrowful eyes to gaze at the sun That he may die to earth and live in his soul. ||123.22||