D.R.Bendre Great poet from Karnataka "After I saw the Mother at Pondlcherry, I found the basis supporting all manifestations of motherhood".   Given three reasons for the rise in him of the awareness of the mother principle. The first of these was the great influence that his own mother and grandmother exercised on him. As long as his mother was alive (she died when he was twentyeight) he considered himself a child. The second was the Impact of Tagore's child poems: 'It was Tagore's child poems that made me aware of my own mother*. The third was the inspira