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Rh Mother, you brought me down into the world, saying, 'Let us play.' You cheated me, and in the game that you have played my hope has not found fulfilment.

Rāamprasād says: In the world-play, what was to be has been. Now at eventide, taking your child in your bosom, go home.

Another famous song. The 'hope of hope' recalls the Greek. Birth after birth, and all is vanity and disappointment.

'''XI. HE TRUSTS KĀLĪ THOUGH SHE NEGLECTS HIM'''

Mother, you are in my heart.

Dark Goddess, who says you are in my heart? You are a stony-hearted girl, a harmful delusion. Through how much trouble you make me pass! In the difference of worship, all the Five Forms become yours. He that knows the Five are but One, from him, Mother, how will you escape? He that knows, and rests all on you, him you will not help! But will the man who knows the worth of gold accept glass? Prāsād says: My heart is of the right tint of the lotus You, building those five into one, dance and dwell in my mind!

'''XII. HIS VAIN AND EARNEST SEARCH FOR SALVATION BY KNOWLEDGE'''

I thought I had attained to truth. I had learnt from the wise. I found a teacher in the land where there is