A Prayer to the Goddess | The Four Hymns of the Candi In Sanskrit and Translation

Today on Sārada Devī Jayanti, the auspicious emergence of Holy Mother, I'd like to offer this recitation of the four hymns of the Candi at your feet, you who are Mā embodied. Before each hymn is chanted in Sanskrit and translation, we make a few preliminary remarks about the hymn to contextualize it in the wider narrative of the Candi or Devi Māhātmyam. These hymns are very powerful. They are charged with unimaginable mantric force! To even listen to them is to affect a profound transfo...