On Adisankara's Mathrupanchakam
Nor can Thee be exempted o'saint
Renounced mind of heart renounce can not
Begotten flesh and blood thine lament
Despite knowing Thee thou mother transcient
Cathartic thine feelings as thou mother's
Yelling out in labour-pain for the gods
Loaded soul thine evacuant of truths
Ineffectual plies of gratefulness
Diligently reciprocated in prostrations
Denudes thee thou saintly fame
Attired of thou mother's cajoling frame
Outbursting thou mother's raising pain
A sacred fetus cradled towards saintly fame
And thou renounced robes do acclaim
An appraisal elegiacally of thou mother afflame
Hey Guru,
Even Goddess supreme evenout can not be
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AdiSankara
Luminous on the snowy Himalaya
The effulgence of Kaladi Kerala
The beacon light up there spirited
From south of Bharath enlightened
Bestowed the blest Sivaguru and Aryamba
Lord siva born to them, great Sankara
Not an ordinary child but divine
Did he younger resort to be a sanyasin
Would a mother consent? Aryamba didn't
Yet she soon couldn't but consent
Destiny, a crocodile to Sankara threw a life-threat
Relieved him demanding he be an ascetic asset
Thence Aryamba let Sankara renounce, go yonder
Was she then mollified to be attened to later
Set out Sankara for an accomplished guru atlast
For he in search of an ascetic tryst
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poem by Indira Renganathan
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