śrī śrījñānanetrapāda racitaṃ śrī kālikā svarūpa stutiḥ

A praise of the very nature of Kalika by Jnananetrapada, and the closing verse says how it came: it was uttered, he writes, under the sway of a state of complete absorption, by this Shiva for the sake of Shiva, and for the welfare of himself and of the whole world. What the verses praise is not a figure at all but a form that has none. Victory, one of them runs, to that form of yours which is reached only by the brightest awareness, free of the reckoning of being and non-being, without conditions, which is the shape of the three worlds and is shapeless. Another calls it one and yet appearing in many shapes, spread through the world and unaltered by it, the spotless thing that goes by the name of consciousness itself. Hindi glosses stand appended inside the verses.