Here are the words of a very old, and much-loved song, translated from the Indian Marathi language. It refers to the life force, the Kundalini, as mother, and begs her to rise up through the system to the Sahasrara and so bring about Self-realisation – the Oneness with the Divine, the Union, the Yoga, the Enlightenment, the Rhu, the Moksha, the Breath of the Holy Spirit.

O Mother Kundalini, You rise, rise, rise!
To kill the evil demons.
O Mother, You rise, rise, rise!
To take away the problems we have, the obstacles,
To take your devotees to their salvation.
Mother we ask for our Self Realization.
Rise, rise, rise, rise, rise, rise, Ho!

I will banish all my  problems
And I will put this garland on Your neck, Mother Kundalini.
In my hand I will take the flag of knowledge,
And get rid of all obstructions.

In the nine nights I will do nine types of worship to You..
I will put all questions and doubts to one side
And ask for the boon that is meditation.
I will give up the father-in-law that’s sitting on my head
Making me a bad boy.

Now I will fill up my little basket
With the complete blooming flowers of knowledge.
And all the bad ideas that come into my mind
I will throw into the sea.

There are two horrible creatures within me.
One is lust and the other is anger.
Theses two horrible creatures I will throw away.
That is how I am going to make my central pathway clean.

I ask my Mother for the Yoga and promise to keep it very safe in my heart.
When I have the Yoga, which I will store very carefully,
I will thank you forever for my second birth..
And fall at the feet of God the Almighty.

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