9. Awake
Awake, O Mother Ind, awake!To burn the Spirit's fire
In the heart of the mortal's mire
Where flowers of new dawn shall break.
Awake, O Mother Ind, awake!
To save the dying earth
With the flood of nectar-birth
And stop the age-long dance of the snake.
Sri Chinmoy, God then, God now, Sri Chinmoy Centre, San Juan, Puerto Rico., 1971