This piece is dedicated to Amma.

The lines in Sanskrit are from Adi Sankara’s closing lines of the Matru Panchakam. Adi Sankara fulfilled a promise made to his mother as a condition for being allowed to renounce the world that he would return at the time of her final journey. These lines say o’mother this is an offering to you who cried in pain “O’Mother, O’Father, O’ Krishna, O’ Govinda!” as you labored to bring me into this world!