Verse 16

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In plain words

Tell me, O Mother Kāmākṣī: your lotus foot is red and seems full of passion, it bears a rival's hatred toward the open lotus every day, it treads by nature on the heads of the gods. How then does it show the path to liberation to the good who bow?

Word for word

With rāga, with dveṣa, toward the spreading lotus every day, by nature treading the heads of the wise folk greatly, how, O Mother, tell, the foot-lotus your to the good, to the bowed, O Kāmākṣī, reveals the path of kaivalya?