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||
