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With the red kumkum on the forehead and bubbling joyous smile, Your graceful eyes like blossom sharp, Your structure is like the tall lighting lamp! Into the adoring hearts, You sow the seeds of hope! Wisdom blossoms as the lotus at Your feet, as they crush the demonic ego, in the form of bull! With your trident, from the feet to head, Your divine manifestation expounds the essence of all Vedas! With the conch of primordial sound on one hand, the wheel of eternal time on the other, and the other hands blessing in grace, Your posture is divinely satvic! Your presence presents the best of all weal and wealth as You are the true infinite treasure. Blissfully wearing the garlands and ornaments in beatitude, You are the serene fulfillment. In the form of bull-headed demon, vain ego and illusion conquered at Your feet which is my salvage, O Queen Mother, Sri Kanaka Durge!

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Omnipresent You are, yet in spite of my yearning, You are hidden beyond the reach within my mind, is it perhaps my heart still impure, locked behind clutches of sinful thoughts? Should You hide Your bliss? Must You dislike me? In my ignorance, as if I cannot find You, You enact the play! Thus my laden heart suffers and as an ordeal, You hide my true-self within me. Is it why You appear in stony form at this prosperous temple? At Your graceful presence, let the rocky hearts melt; let the curtailing inner veils fall; within the moving hearts, let true wisdom be dawn; the blanketing cycle of enduring births be uncovered. Within the grasp of intellect, let the knowledge of self be the true gain. In the virtuous town of Ealing, You are in the most blissful form, O the Queen Mother, Sri Kanaka Durge!

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The great Four Saivas, Vaishnava Alwars, Saiva Nayanmars, great poet Abhiramapattar, the trinity of music, saintly Nachiars, Sage Arunagiri, Thayumanavar and such great seers, in their adoring words that are pregnant with meaning and poignant in form and perfect harmony, worship Your grace. In the lucidity and beauty of these great garland of verses, You have submerged and in so indulging, You have ignored me! Your motherly manifestations, many as in Melmaravathur, Thiruvanaikoil, Kadambangudi and Samayapuram, all reveal the great philosophy that the tender femininity is the core of all pervading Sivam! Your graceful form aids such blissful understanding. At Your divine feet, with jejune intellect, I submit these incoherent words as poem! Please deem these harsh words as Your child’s blabber. In the forgiving grace, bless me with true wisdom and grant me the supreme awareness of thy self, ever graceful Sri Kanaka Durge!

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Can dew drops last the dawning Sun? Can the fragile cotton match the fury of the blaze? At the moment of my submissive embrace at Your feet, is it a wonder that my mounting sins vanish in a flash? As the serene solitude, grace manifested, reigning the eternal Dharma, is it difficult for You to save Your children! Perhaps it is my sin! Yet, can the innocent kick of infant injure the mother? Why is then it is hard to embrace me and cleanse my ignorance? Mental worries are shadowy ghosts; weariness of intellect is the cause of illusion. O Queen Mother, let Your brightness light the illuminating knowledge in me; let there be change; let my mind attain virtuous serenity; let that extend to all humanity. You are our aide, like the brush that trace the grace eternal! Be, in the adoring hearts; Wearing the garland of pure love, You are the nectar, supreme conscious, Kanaka Durge!

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Through flowers and mantras, prayers and rites, taking holy baths in great rivers and fasting austerities, symbolic rituals, reciting mantras and such pious acts, with or without the understanding of their true purpose, in the balance of virtuous and sinful deeds, we seek the truth! All great religious thoughts ultimately lead to this One Truth that is eternal and our salvation! True Veda is this, which asserts love as everything; love as the nucleus, the building block of the entire universe. Perhaps only to illustrate this, You have manifested in the form of loving Mother, most beautifully dressed. When filled with love, minds rid stress; abundance of happiness and zeal arise; with the dawn of courage and true wisdom, we face and accept whatever comes ahead!
As universal love, You blossom Sri Kanaka Durge!

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With river Ganges tucked in the tuft and crescent moon on the head, Sankara is the holiest and in His form, You are the Siva Durge! You are Kaumari, Kamakala kameshwari and the ‘katkam’ wearing Shakthi Durge! As integral to Lord Venkatesan who bears the conch and in yogic slumber upon the tidal miky ocean, You manifest as Mahavishnu Durge! All sensuous, sensory and super-sensory enjoyments, yoga mudras and the power of maya are Your grace! Protecting the fortress of Sri Chakra, You are the Avarana Durge and therin, in varied forms as Navaamsa Durge! In the multitudes, You are One, alone, the intrinsic meaning of tantric and yogic symbols, root cause of wisdom and manifest in eight forms such as Vaseeni Durge! Sri Chakra, the supreme divine geometry is Thy symmetry! Your potent is intense and as one with Sri Lalitha, You are the Vijaya Durge, the magnificent mother Kali! Please give me the complete free will and the absolute knowledge, O, Mathanki, Sri Kanaka Durge! 

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As the dolls on the steps, as the wondrous creations of infinite universe, in every form that the mind can conceive, in every form seen, as the flame of life in all forms, in the holy display of Kolu, O Mother, as the One Who gave birth to time and space and innumerable worlds, Who is attracted to the truth of Vedas, Who is the indwelling subatomic energy, Who is the enduring bliss and the eternal grace of Shivam, as the supremely gracious Mother, to imprint Thy divine feet into my heart, please do come! Grant me the wisdom to worship the devotees of Your divine feet, O Mother, the primordial power Who came as Nine Shakthis, O, Kanaga Dhurge, save me! (7)

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With three lines of outer boundary, the flowers of sixteen petals and eight petals as the gates, fourteen triangles followed by ten inside and ten outside triangles, converging into to an eight-petals of inner chakra, the holy triangle as the sanctum, the centre of which as the most auspicious dot or bindhu is Your abode, the Sri Chakra, upon which O Mother, You reign as the Empress of all universe, thus reside and rule all bodies; These bodies, in their nine core apexes, key ‘nadis’, that are said to be the knots of the soul, behind the physical, respirational, mental, intellectual and blissful sheaths, You are there as the still light. In whatever embodiment, wherever and however I may get trapped, You will come an rescue me! O, Paravathi, Who has taken up the divine play of creation etc., the One and Only, Kanaga Dhurge! (8)

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From Shivam, Parabrhamam that is unmoving and alone is Shivam, You came as the light, in the most enchanting form of Kama Kala Kameshwari, to indulge with Parashivam and to give birth to all there is! O Mother, You are all-potential, Maha Lakshmi, Vani and Maha Kali, with the grace-yielding eyes that rain compassion and love! Is there any justice that I suffer on earth in vain? Why have You not come to liberate? You are my Mother, I am Your Toy; as I know this, don’t You have to come to my rescue? O Sinless, I have appealed on the basis that You are my Mother and I am Your child!. O Master of all universe, the great dancer, the sister of Narayana, save me, Kanaga Durge! (9)