ଶ୍ରୀ କାଲୀ ସ୍ତଵନମ୍ (ଶାକିନୀ ସ୍ତୋତ୍ରମ୍)

A praise of Kali spoken by Shakini, from the seventy-second chapter of the Uttara Tantra of the Rudrayamala, in a section given over to the six wheels of the body — and the speaker is the point of it. Shakini presides over one of those wheels, and the second verse makes the identification the whole hymn rests on: Shakini shines in the heart, and that goddess is the mother, and she is the one the world knows as Kali. What follows moves between the wheels and the ordinary Vedantic vocabulary without a seam. One verse has discrimination arise from her, and then that discrimination, having become renouncing, produce an intoxication lovely as an ocean of nectar, which it names the supreme knowledge of brahman.