Om Jai Lakshmi Mata
Contents
- RefrainThe Line the Whole Room Sings
- Verse 1Every Name Turns Out to Be Yours
- Verse 2The Same Mother, With Nothing Smudged
- Verse 3At the Bottom of the World, and at the Far Shore
- Verse 4The House Where Nobody Is Frantic
- Verse 5Even the Holy Things Need Somebody to Pay for Them
- Verse 6She Came Out of the Churning Sea
- Verse 7Whoever Sings This
Deeper
An aarti is not built like a poem with a beginning and an end. It is built like a wheel: a refrain, then a stanza, then the refrain again, around and around until the lamp has been all the way round the image. So the shape to look for is not a narrative — it is a widening.
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