TRANCES OF SHIVA

TRANCES OF SHIVA

Do not Alight
O Mahadeva,
From your mystic session
To watch Sati ablaze;
Followed by the fire in your own eye,
And then
Your frozen silence.

Do not fall asleep
After the venom at Manthana
Leaving Parvati to awaken you from the slumber
Of such chivalry.

Do not awaken O Mahadeva
To see Ganesa victorious
Kartikeya hurt, again,
Not understanding your spiritual lesson at tender age.

Do not awaken O Mahadeva
As Lakshman resuscitated on the battle field,
Chanting feverishly 'rescue mother Sita, rescue mother Sita !'
Only having to desert her,
Again.

Do not awaken Mahadeva, as Mahakala
Witnessing the myriad misery of Kurukshetra,
Listening to your own Krishna speaking in earnest to Arjun,
Teaching the indefiability to TIME,
A vital lesson and introduction to you.

Do not awaken O Mahadeva,
On crucifixion day
Watching Jesus and Judas
And the agony of knowing
Your essence was in both.

Do not awaken, O Mahadeva,
In the later forgetfulness,
As ‘SHE’ was being faded away in fervent search of God as HE;

Yet Gorakh the Natha
Running one to another,knowing both,
Divine messenger.

Do not watch O Mahadeva
Her as Lalli
Seeking you desperately in a paradise you named Kashmir
And 107 times more
As named yoginis and unnamed winds.

Or forget yourself once, as Viveka
Without her, Ananda?
And yet you smiled at the tears and gently said
O Devi, I pain too, for whose separation was greater?

Know all! Mahadeva!!
Know thyself, by any role,in any time,
But awaken here, with us all,
And take us to the fullness of your Shivohum ,
As us.

{ This poem was written in 1998. It is a description of how i have seen Shiva Mahadeva. A mystic answer to Stephen Hawking as a brief History of TIME } .