Mother, they are now stricken with disease and sorrow.

Oh Shyama, the reliever of the three kinds of human afflictions, relieve our sorrows.

Come Mother, the destroyer of the demons, and appear at the gates of Bengal.
The Barisal _Hitaishi_ refers also to the Durga festival, in which the weird and often horrible and obscene rites of _Skakti_ worship not infrequently play a conspicuous part:-- What have we learnt from the _Shakti Puja_?
Sooner or later this great _Puja_ will yield the desired results.

When the Hindus realize the true magnificence of the worship of the Mother, they will be roused from the slumber of ages, and the auspicious dawn of awakenment will light up the horizon.
You must acquire great power from the worship of the Mother.
Ganesh, the god who grants success, has his seat assigned to him on the left of the great Mother.

Why should you despair of obtaining success?
Look at Kartiki, the god who is the chief commander of the armies of the gods, who has stationed himself to the right of the Mother; he is coming forward with his bow, to assist you against the demons of sin, who stand in the way of your accomplishing that great object, and as he is up in arms, who can resist?
The _Khulnavasi_ breaks out into poetry:-- For what sins, O Mother Durga, are thy sons thus dispirited and their hearts crushed with injustice?
The demons are in the ascendant, and constantly triumphing over godliness.
Awake, Oh Mother, who tramplest on the demons! Thy helpless sons, lean for want of food, worn out in the struggle with the demons, are, struck with terror at the way in which they are being ruled.